Grant Proposal Writing

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GrantProposal Writing

• Writing Proposals for Conservation

Local / Letter Proposals
Module 2
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Presenter
Pete Pinney Associate Professor of English,
University of Alaska Fairbanks
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Overall Course Objective

• Using core structural components, participants
  will be able to draft a grant proposal for
  successful funding.

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Module Two Objective

• Recognize the elements of three funding levels
  and determine how to use each level in a project
  funding strategy.

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Presentation Modules

• One Wisdom of Planning / COIN
• Two Funding Local / Letter Proposals
• Three Full Proposals Problem or Need /
  Objectives
• Four Full Proposals Methodology / Evaluation
• Five Full Proposals Budget / Future Funding
• Six Full Proposals Introduction / Summary
• Seven Working with Funders / Grants Management
• Eight Resources

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Diversify
more endowment
fewer corporate gifts
Sources
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Always start here
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Always start here
Grassroots activities
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Giving relationship

• fundraising is friend raising
• 1 reason people give somebody asked
• People give money to people, not to projects
• Sense of personal worth or feeling good
• Sense of building community

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The role of In-kind donations
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Potential Support

• Volunteers, previous donors,
  local companies or businesses, merchants in
  nearby towns, sympathetic friends, citizens,
  users and user groups, civic service clubs,
  fraternal organizations and auxiliaries,
  scouting groups, student campus groups, and
  any other well-intentioned
  individual.

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Skill Check
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Advantages of Grassroots
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Advantages of Grassroots
relies on established network
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Advantages of Grassroots
relies on established network
shows local involvement
recruits new people
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Advantages of Grassroots
relies on established network
individual contributions
shows local involvement
recruits new people
builds future support
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Advantages of Grassroots
relies on established network

• individual contributions

shows local involvement
simple handshake or phone call
recruits new people
builds future support
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Advantages of Grassroots
relies on established network

• individual contributions

shows local involvement
simple handshake or phone call
less formal
recruits new people
builds future support
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Advantages of Grassroots
relies on established network

• individual contributions

shows local involvement
simple handshake or phone call
less formal
recruits new people
builds future support
timely
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Disadvantages
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Disadvantages

• STP (same ten people)

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Disadvantages

• STP (same ten people)
• staff/volunteer burn out

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Disadvantages

• STP (same ten people)
• staff/volunteer burn out
• local politics

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Disadvantages

• STP (same ten people)
• staff/volunteer burn out
• local politics
• labor intensive

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Grassroots In-kind Letters
Local
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Grassroots activities
Grassroots / Letter proposals
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CREATING A WINNING LETTER PROPOSAL
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Confusing Terminology

• - Pre-proposal
• - Concept paper
• - Pre-application proposal
• - Letter of Intent

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Letter Proposal

• Two to three pages
• Follows a funders format
• Contains specific information

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Benefits of a Letter Proposal
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Benefits of a Letter Proposal

• Screens proposals for those that fit
• Saves time

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Timeframes are important
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Letter Proposal Components

• Concept Problem or Need
• Objectives Amount of promised change
• Implementation Who will do what for what
  benefit
• Networking You and your partners
• trategy Requested amount

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Concept - Problem/need Statement

• State the exact problem or need
• Convince the reader of gap between of what is and
  ought to be must be closed immediately
• Incorporate the human element
• Tell the bad result if not addressed

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Example Problem/Need Statement

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The Black-footed Ferret is the worlds most
endangered mammal, the rapid decline of the
prairie dog population as a result of eradication
programs and prevalence of the plague introduced
in the United States early this century. There
are currently no naturally occurring populations
of ferrets. Eighteen ferrets captured from the
last wild population are the nucleus of a captive
breeding program. If the Black-footed ferret is
not successfully reintroduced into the wild, the
balance of the biodiversity system will be
permanently altered, having negative ripple
effects throughout the west.
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Objectives

• Are always measurable
• Show amount of promised change
• Represent an outcome
• Become the criteria of success
• DO NOT EXPLAIN HOW

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Start Objectives with

• Decreasing
• Enhancing
• Increasing
• Maintaining

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Example Objectives

• Decrease spread of plague in the prairie dog
  community adjacent to the Black-Footed Ferret
  reintroduction site in NW Colorado by 15 by the
  end of fiscal year

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Example Objectives

• Decrease spread of plague in the prairie dog
  community adjacent to the Black-Footed Ferret
  reintroduction site in NW Colorado by 15 by the
  end of fiscal year
• Increase number of breeding pairs of Black-footed
  Ferrets in the wild in NW Colorado by 10 in next
  fiscal year

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Example Objectives

• Decrease spread of plague in the prairie dog
  community adjacent to the Black-Footed Ferret
  reintroduction site in NW Colorado by 15 by the
  end of fiscal year
• Increase number of breeding pairs of Black-footed
  Ferrets in the wild in NW Colorado by 10 in next
  fiscal year
• Increase membership by 4 new partners by close of
  next fiscal year

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Implementation

• Presents reasonable scope of activities
• Describes logical sequence of events
• Steps can be accomplished in reasonable timeframe
• Emphasizes benefits to the community

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Implementation

• Continue monitoring adjacent prairie dog
  community for evidence of plague.
• Build four breeding and release pens.
• Obtain 40 additional adult ferrets from the U.S.
  Fish Wildlife Black-footed Ferret Research
  Center.

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NetworkingYou and your partners

• Link to the grantor when possible
• Why you are a good match
• Identify your partners
• Demonstrate the expertise

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trategy for Requesting Funds

• Request a precise amount
• Mention other organizations you are soliciting
• Keep focus on value of the results

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Evaluation

• Defines evaluation criteria
• Explains data gathering methods, test instruments
• Shows how evaluation will improve implementation
• Describes evaluation reports to be produced

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Signatures

• Provide legal commitment, credibility
• Officers most responsible legally should sign

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Dont we have a policy that says a
meetings handouts cant outweigh the committee
chairperson?
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Attachments

• Only if allowed

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Skill Check
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Review

• Friends are your most ardent supporters.

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or in-kind labor, equipment, supplies

• Relationships
• Relationships
• Relationships
• Relationships
• Relationships
• Relationships

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Grassroots In-kind Letters
Local
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Grassrootsletter proposalfull proposal
Local
State
Local
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Grassroots activities
Grassroots / Letter proposals
Letter / Full proposals
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National Funding
Local
National
State
Local
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Next Time

• Full proposals
• Problem Statements / Objectives

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Web Links

• http//www.faculty.uaf.edu/ffppp
• ffppp_at_uaf.edu