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The Game of Grant Writing; How To Make It Fun

The Game of Grant Writing; How To Make It Fun. Kelley Withy, MD, Hawai’i/Pacific Basin AHEC Andy Fosmire, MS Rural Health Projects/NwOKAHEC. What we will cover. The fun and creative side of grant writing Writing for a federal agency

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The Game of Grant Writing; How To Make It Fun

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  1. The Game of Grant Writing; How To Make It Fun Kelley Withy, MD, Hawai’i/Pacific Basin AHEC Andy Fosmire, MS Rural Health Projects/NwOKAHEC

  2. What we will cover • The fun and creative side of grant writing • Writing for a federal agency • Writing for local, state, regional and national foundations

  3. Appreciating grant writing for what it is • Competition (usually fair) • Telling a story in such a way that it draws the reader in • Equal fact and fiction (making dreams into reality) • Convincing someone you can do it • Making the funding match the fit

  4. Start with the end in mind • What happens to your grant after you submit it • Who decides what? • What are they thinking? • How can you communicate with them? • How can you anticipate their questions? • Write as if you were reviewing your grant.

  5. Developing your plan • What are the needs in your area? • What does the target group want to do? • What is your dream for the situation? • What are your current primary activities? • What successful programs you would like to expand/implement? • Are there any grants that fit like a glove?

  6. Develop your internal team • Who can do the job? • Who already does part of the job? • Who can you work with? • Who brings resources to the table? • Who can bring people together? • Who doesn’t get along? • How are the group dynamics?

  7. Developing your network of partners • Agencies whose missions align with yours • Organizations you have worked well with before • High levels of trust and respect • Willing to negotiate the budget before-hand • Bring some resources to the table • Keep the objective clear and use consensus for decision making

  8. Writing Federal grants • Follow the directions exactly • Make it easy to read, interesting, and answer all questions that may come up • Address as many of the target areas or aims of the federal program as possible • Comply with formatting, including biosketches • Make it easy for your partners to write letters of support • Quantitative evaluation is highly valued • Bringing in expertise (consultants) is valued

  9. Writing a federal grant • A grant reviewed by a panel of our ‘peers’; who might they be? • Don’t insult them, don’t put them to sleep • See what the project officer thinks • Figure out if the budget will help and be clear about the budget with your partners • Don’t go back on a promise in federal grant world, or else

  10. Title: make it memorable • Abstract-most important part, not duplicate • Specific Aims • Objectives/hypotheses/research questions • Mission/vision/aim • Measurable objective • Goal, Measurable Objective, Activity, evaluation

  11. How to write it • Budget – excel spread sheet, wide approval • Background: • Why it must be done, here and now. • Why this is the perfect place to do it. • Why the population is ideal. • Preliminary studies is why you are the ideal person to do the job and all your past experience

  12. Methods • Repeat goals and objectives, but here is where you expand on activities, measures, the nitty gritty. In enough detail to keep the reader interested. • Timeline • Responsible people • Tables are worth 1000 words

  13. Evaluation • Qualitative • Quantitative • Formative • Summative • Logic model/root cause analysis can incorporate all of these and is very popular

  14. Web addresses for federal grants • www.grants.gov • Catolog of Federal Domestic Assistance www.gsa.gov/fdac • www.nal.usda.gov/ric • www.nih.gov • www.ahrq.gov • http://www.healthworkforceinfo.org/funding/

  15. Writing Foundation Grants • Chicken or the Egg? • Solicited or Unsolicited • Relationships • Story Telling • Letter of Intention • Challenge Grants • Matching funds

  16. Micro-Grants • Making a Million…$2,500 at a Time • Consider the Risk/Reward Factor • Local/State Service Clubs • Local Branches of National Businesses • Nonprofit Arms of For Profit Firms • Other Nonprofits

  17. Websites for general information • The Grantmanship Center www.tgci.com • www.genie.org • www.guidestar.org • Rural Information Center

  18. Foundation web pages • http://foundationcenter.org/findfunders/ • Kellog Foundation www.wkkf.org/ • RWJ Foundation www.rwjf.org • Ford foundation www.fourdfound.org • Council on foundations www.cof.org • http://philanthropy.com a news source for non profit organizations

  19. More web pages • http://www.grantstation.com/insider_cobrands/GrantStation_Insider_Subscribers.asp • http://www.fundsnetservices.com/ • http://www.npguides.org/links.htm

  20. Finding THE Grant to Apply For • Training grants • Research grants • State Department of Health grants • Community development grants • Grants for special populations • Foundation grants • Industry/Corporate grants

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