Getting Started Your Grant Journey Begins

So you think you can write and win a grant! Absolutely Yes!

Quick checkPasses screening

Fits mission and goals

Organization meets eligibility criteria

If matching required, organization can leverage funding

Team is organized and ready to go

See screening tool on Web site

Request For Application - RFA

Getting your head into the game

Put the application into a binder

If there is a checklist pull it out and pin it up

Follow the directions closely and use their header prompts - create a frame using the selection criteria

Selection CriteriaEXAMPLE - The following selection criteria will be used to evaluate applications for grants under this competition. For ease of reading by the reviewers, applicants should develop their narrative to follow the sequence of criteria provided below.

The maximum number of possible points for all selection criteria is 100. Note: The criteria contain weighted subcriteria. Applicants must address each subcriterion to qualify for the maximum number of points for each criteria.

The maximum score for each criterion is indicated in parentheses.

Breaking into piecesNeeds Statement

Program Design

Goals/Objectives

Management Plan

Evaluation Plan

Demonstrating support

On line submissions

Next stepsNow you are ready to dive in

See Web site that breaks down each section

Program Design and Budget Narrative should be developed up front and together

Last but not least use all available resources, web cast, researching what has won, looking at best practices etc.

Exemplary grants are grounded in exemplary ideas