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Community Connections

Community Connections. Using Small Grants to Increase the Power of Voice. Who We Are. Christine Mulvin The HealthPath Foundation of Ohio Cynthia Drennan Sisters of St. Joseph Charitable Fund Mary Francis Interact for Health. Who Are You?. Raise your hand if you…

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Community Connections

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  1. Community Connections Using Small Grants to Increase the Power of Voice

  2. Who We Are • Christine Mulvin • The HealthPath Foundation of Ohio • Cynthia Drennan • Sisters of St. Joseph Charitable Fund • Mary Francis • Interact for Health

  3. Who Are You? • Raise your hand if you… • Have a formal small grant program • Have an informal small grant program • Are thinking about a small grant program

  4. What Do You Want to Know? • What brings you here today? • What do you hope to learn?

  5. Overview of Our Small Grants Programs What our programs do Purpose Value seen

  6. Reasons Why to Use a Small Grants Program

  7. CAPACITY BUILDING CRITICAL MOMENT/ JUNCTURE PHILOSOPHICAL • Market analysis • This is an example text. • Go ahead an replace it with your own text. This is an example text. • Marketing plan • This is an example text. • Go ahead an replace it with your own text. This is an example text. WHY SCAN AN ISSUE/ RESEARCH/ PLANNING EMERGENCY/ FLEXIBLE BUILD MASS/ LEVERAGE SUPPORT • Marketing plan • This is an example text. • Go ahead an replace it with your own text. This is an example text. COLLABORATION LEVERAGE FUNDS

  8. Strategic Advantages Tips Connect to mission: -Strategic -Intentional -Selective Flexible & ‘Agile’ Timely Often streamlined process & shortened response time Streamline & Collaborate Allocate: -Funds -Time Broader impact/larger number of grantees

  9. Q&A: Purpose of Small Grants

  10. Structuring a Small Grants Program

  11. Things to Consider • Application process • LOI? Proposal? • Timeline (rolling, cycles, RFP, etc.) • Approval process

  12. Q&A: Structure of Small Grants

  13. Evaluating Small Grants

  14. Things to Consider • Set realistic expectations • Be specific about results you want • ROI • to grantees in terms of requirements • to foundation in terms of staff time and results • Lessons learned

  15. What Can You Expect?

  16. Q&A: Evaluation

  17. Small Group Discussion

  18. Things to Consider • How would small grant strategy help you achieve your mission? • What changes and outcomes are you looking for? What would your small grant program look like to achieve these changes? • Who has to be on board for the changes to occur? • What challenges and questions have you encountered in your own small grant program? • How is your small grant program going? What lessons have you learned?

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