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The
Grantsmanship Institute provides you with solutions that work. Grant development is a
combination of strategic planning, project management, performance-based
budgeting and collaborative efforts with internal and external partners.
It is important that you and
your agency identify the program accurately in order to assure successful grant
funding.
Program
development is all about:
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Reconnecting with your mission.
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Reinventing your approach.
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Rejuvenating your passion.
Program
design and strategic planning is basically broken down into three categories:
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The Introduction.
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The Plan.
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The Summary.
The Three
Mind Sets For Program Design
Step 1: Reconnect
with your mission statement. All programs of an organization must be a
natural extension of the mission statement of the organization. For
example, if your mission is to run an emergency shelter, don't develop a program
for kids and canines.
Step 2: Reinventing your approach. Let's not make
this a big complicated production! Let's get it on paper and stay focused.
With this simple approach you will be able to methodically move through the
program design and implementation.
Step 3: Rejuvenate your passion. Nothing creative ever comes
out of someone or a group of people that are burned out. We believe the
best program development and strategic planning comes from a group that is well
rested and removed from the day to day grind of the office.
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The Program Plan:
Simply
follow the outline below. Answer the questions and before you know it you
will have developed a program plan. This plan will be used to keep you
focused on both short term and long term goals as well as identifying funding
opportunities.
Introduction:
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Specify your goal.
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Identify requirements.
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Identify eligible participants.
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Identify number of participants to be served.
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Define participant completion.
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Describe program's benefits to
funder and the target audience.
The
Plan:
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Describe each component of the
program.
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Describe innovative features of the
program.
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Describe how participants will be
identified and recruited.
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Layout the schedule.
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Describe staffing and other
resources.
Summary:
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Provide a brief overview of the
proposed plan.
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Do a synopsis of expected outcomes
and benefits.
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Again, what is the benefit to the
funder.
Things You & the Board Should
Know:
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Be clear and strong about connections
between what you want and how it will be addressed.
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Be clear about the uniqueness of the
program and how it can easily be transported to other geographic areas for
implementation. Funders like to fund programs that can easily be
replicated.
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A goal is one sentence. Webster
defines it as: "usually abstract in content, broader in scope, less subject to
direct measurement and focused on long-term perspective". Goals are not
measurable so don't use numbers and dates.
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Nothing and no one is sacred in
program development. Start from scratch with fresh ideas. Don't do
business in the same old fashion. No one in the program development process
should have more say then another.
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In describing components and resources
you must also identify costs associated with each component and resource
(personnel, etc.)
Things to remember:
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