For Jay Mendell's book on overcoming stigma in fund raising, please surf to http://black-sheep-library.com/order-now-black-sheep-fundraising.htm  That's Black Sheep Fundraising: Obtaining Dollars Despite Stigma and Prejudice toward Abortion, AIDS, Alcoholism, Birth Control, Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, Drug Abuse, Eating Disorders, Gambling, Homelessness, Homosexuality, Mental Disorders, Partner Violence,  Sex Education, Teenage Pregnancy, the Unemployed, the Ex-Offenders, the Illegal Immigrants, the Juvenile Offenders, the Elderly, and Other Outcast Causes .

 

Hello. I'm Jay Mendell, professor of public administration at Florida Atlantic University. My various Internet pages are accessible by starting at GollyGrantsOnline.com

The address of this page is GollyGrantsOnline.com/6233-GW-spring-2006.htm.  

Seminar in Grants Writing for
Public and Nonprofit Administration
(PAD 6233)

Florida Atlantic University
PAD 6233, SEMINAR IN GRANTS WRITING, Call #13510
Term begins on  01-09-2006. Term ends 05-05-2006

Jay S. Mendell, Ph. D., Professor
Home phone.954.597-0574, Cell phone.954.895-6364
 

Do you really want to be in this class?

Aggressive, motivated people do grant writing because they need resources to do important stuff. I can teach you how.  But if you do not plan to write grants, if you just need three credits on a Saturday, I am not going to try to make you happy.
Most of what you will learn in here is not written down anywhere, at least not in a well organized way. You will have to show up on time every time, having studied in advance the material below, and pay attention; and you well have to ask questions, then go out and study the additional materials that I direct you to. You can't be passive. By the way, if you are late or skip class or let your attention wander, you are sure to miss something important. And that's your tough luck.
I do not try very hard to be well organized. I launch into stream of consciousness lectures, and you get the point if you pay attention and ask questions, or you don't. If you don't, that too is your tough luck.

Bad things happen to people who do not follow my advice.

There are deadlines for turning in projects, and if you miss a deadline, there is no way to be sure what I will do with your late submission. I'll try not to misplace them, but I won't try hard. 
There are formats and instructions to follow, and if you fail to comply with directions, there is no way to be sure your paper will be recognized and credited to you. (I'll try to credit your work to you, but I won't try hard.)

On Web updates and email.

Several times a week you will please have to check this Web page for additions and clarifications. Go the bottom and check for added notations.
To send me email, please use only mendelljay@gmail.com.  In the subject line type "I am a student in PAD grant writing."  And when you send me e-mail, be sure to include your name, not just your e-mail address. It is helpful if you include your phone numbers at home and work and your cell phone number.
Grading.

 Your grade will principally be based on how well you complete the individual pieces of a proposal that I assign.

Assignments delivered into my hand on time (12:30 p. m.) will be graded High Pass (HP), Pass>(P>), or Unsatisfactory> (U>). Those received late will be graded Pass (Px), Unsatisfactory (Ux), or Highly Unsatisfactory (HUx).

The symbol > means you may do the work over for a better grade. The symbol x means you are out of luck.
 
On following instructions, even capricious instructions.
Understanding and following instructions, whether or not the instructions are clear and make sense, whether or not they seem trivial and petty, is important in your development as a grant writer. If you do not understand a request, ask about it in class, by e-mail or by phone.
Everything you turn in (except your organization's audited financial statement) may be circulated as an example (good or bad).  So never fold, bend, crease, or staple your work, because I may decide to run it through a sheet-fed scanner. Never use extra thin or thick paper. Use paper that will not stick to other sheets going through the sheet feeder. Do not print on both sides of a sheet Put your name is the upper right hand corner of each sheet. 
Don't write anything in pencil or ink on any original material, except your name.  Especially, Don't make editorial corrections in pen or pencil. Re-process and reprint. 

If you are not here when I return material, I will toss it in a waste basket. Feel free to check all the waste bins between the classroom and the parking lot.

 

For the first class.

 1. I have written a mock solicitation of a letter of inquiry (http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/download/RWF-Mock-request-for-proposal.PDF) and a responsive letter of inquiry (http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/download/SSS-Center-mock.PDF). The example is quite a bit shorter than the proposal you will write this term.
2.  An exercise in writing a concept paper for a public school is located on my site, "Write a Winning Grant Proposal on Your First Try." 
Here is the course sequence.
 
Unit 01
Required
  1. Read the Foundation Center's online course on proposal writing.
Recommended readings (this means you read the materials before class and perhaps reread them after class.)
  1. Browse the EPA's grants tutorial.
  2. Review the mock request for proposals from the Ralph Waldo Firestone Foundation, and my letter of inquiry.
Please start to collect the following, if you plan to write a proposal for a private nonprofit.  It will be due later; but start ASAP.
  1. A clear copy of the IRS letter of determination [2-3 pages] establishing that the organization has 501 status. If your organization is a school, church, or other organization that does not require to file for 501 status, submit a typed explanation of why it is exempt.  
  2. Provide clean copy of the most recent annual budget (income, expenses). 
  3. If the organization is 2 years old or older, the name, address, and phone) of its auditor. 

Except for the audited financial statement, none of this will be considered confidential. At the end of the term it will be part of your final project and will not be returned.

Please start to do the following, if you plan to write a proposal for a governmental agency. It will be due later; but start ASAP.
  1. Simply state that you are a governmental agency and are therefore are  federally tax exempt. One sentence will do the trick.
  2. A clean copy of the most recent annual budget, for instance, your city's/county's budget summary.
  3. Explain who audits your agency and how the results are reported and to whom. Give name, address, and phone
None of this will be considered confidential. 

Please do the following if you plan to write a grant for an organization that is not governmental and has no IRS nonprofit status: Find another organization.
Unit 02
Due Saturday, 2006-01-28, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 12:30 p. m.
  1. The items listed above for a nonprofit organization; or
  2. The items requested above for a governmental agency.
Recommended readings
  1. Read the Foundation Center's online course on proposal writing.
  2. Start browsing hard-to-classify worksheets and examples. Don't miss this.
    3.
  3. Review the EPA grants tutorial.
  4. Start browsing proposals available online
Unit 03
Due 2006-02-04, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 12:30 p. m. Use a single sheet of untabbed colored paper to separate the sections.
  1. Give me a 200-300 word description of a new project you would like to undertake through a grant. It must not be a request for seed or general operating support or the extension of a currently funded project or funding for a project that is about to expire for lack of funding. It has to be something new in the range of $3000 to $200,000. 

    The description should be labeled "Executive Summary."
  2. On a separate sheet, set off by an un-tabbed sheet of colored paper, give me a statement of why you are doing this project and why writing this proposal will advance your career. This section should be labeled "What's in It for Me." If all you can write is "I need to write a proposal to pass this course," you are hopeless.
Required readings
  1. Read the Foundation Center's online course on proposal writing.
Recommended readings
  1. Proposals available online.

  2. The EPA grants tutorial
Unit 04
Due 2006-02-18, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 12:30 p. m.
Need analysis is due. Write a one, two, or three page need analysis for your organization's fundable project. Label this "Need analysis." Use no font smaller than 10 points.
Required readings
  1. Here is a crisp explanation of needs analysis (which happens to be embedded in a top-notch essay on grants writing).
  2. Proposals available online. Study many proposals until you find one that resembles one for your project.
Recommended readings.
  1. Reread the Foundation Center's online course on proposal writing.
Unit 05
Due 2006-02-25, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 12:30 pm. Label this "Project Plan." Project plan is due. Two or three pages, an overview of what you intend to do.
Required reading
  1. Proposals available online. Study many proposals until you find one that resembles one for your project.
Recommended reading
  1. Reread the Foundation Center's online course on proposal writing
Unit 06
Due 2006-03-04, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 12:30 p. m. Label this "Searching for funders."
Who is going to fund your proposal? Name a potential Do a free online search using online search tools.
For a nonprofit, do a keyword search for grants through the Foundation Center's online search engine. (But expect to spend some time learning the keyword list.) 
Straight to private foundations.
Straight to corporate grant givers.
Straight to public charities.

The Foundation Center's complete database may be consulted at four locations in the Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. In WPB, go to the Community Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties.(http://www.yourcommunityfoundation.org/) In Boca Raton, a few blocks east of FAU is the Junior League of Boca Raton.(http://www.jlbr.org/) In Fort Lauderdale, Nova University (http://www.nova.edu/library/nsulibs.htm) is the archive, and in Miami, the United Way. (http://www.centeronnonprofiteffectiveness.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=pages.resource_center)

For governmental grants, see the Florida Resource Guide, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance, and grants.gov.

The Foundation Center's complete database may be consulted at four locations in the Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach counties. In WPB, go to the CommUnity Foundation for Palm Beach and Martin Counties. In Boca Raton, a few blocks east of FAU is the Junior League of Boca Raton. In Fort Lauderdale, Nova University is the archive, and in Miami, the United Way.  

Use GrantSelect in the FAU online library. First, get an Owl Card. Then use the proxy server to log in (https://login.ezproxy.fau.edu/login). Then go to the electronic collection (http://www.library.fau.edu/ecollect/ecollect.htm) and find GrantSelect.

 
Unit 07
Due 2006-03-18, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 12:30 p. m.
Budget. I need you to prepare a budget detail sheet and a budget summary for your proposal. The detail sheet must follow the DoJ format described below. 

Label this "Budget."

Required reading
Here is a wonderful how-to (with examples) on budgets from the Department of Justice. Same file may be found here. You will need a free Acrobat .pdf reader. To view files in this format you must first have to download a copy of the Adobe Acrobat Reader and follow the instructions for installation.

Here is the budget from a YMCA proposal.

Here is the Web page that contains the tutoring scenario. Thanks to Howard Kassof, here is the budget summary's structure.

Recommended reading
Proposals available online.
Unit 08
Due 2006-04-08, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 9:00 a. m.
Bring me a concise description of the outcomes of your project. Be careful not to confuse inputs or output with outcomes. Label this "Outcomes."
Required reading
The key reference is the booklet by United Way (http://www.Unitedway.org/outcomes/).
Recommended reading
  1. See House of Hope.org/evaluation.htm.
  2. How to write an evaluation plan into your proposal. This is embedded in a larger document on proposal writing.

  3. Here is the list a ready-made excuses for failing to measure up to your predicted guidelines.
Unit 09
Due 2006-04-15, delivered into my hands in the classroom, at 12:30 p. m.. Label this "Qualifications."
Give me a concise statement of the organization's qualifications to carry out its program. Emphasize past and current grants and contracts, accreditations, and professional qualifications of the staff.
Additional Material

Here is access to the Welfare Information Network's "cheat sheets."

Visit the FAU library online to register for netLibrary.com. This requires an Owl Card.

 Specimen grant proposals.

Here is material on fundraising.

Grantwriting and fundraising for arts and letters.
 Posted 2006-01-15--I have removed several references from above to HW due in year 2005.
 Please, if you send me email, include in your subject line, "I am a student in PAD grant writing." (It is "PAD" that stops my spam filter from trashing your email.)
 Here is guidance in opening an account to log on with your own username and password (http://www.ecs.fau.edu/labs/about/easydirections.htm).
 Please notice that I have added dates above for the first few assignments.
 
 Posted 2006-01-29

If you want to see a typical set of federal specs for a need analysis, visit and browse in http://gollygrantsonline.com/download/Pages from hud youthbuild.pdf

 
Posted 2006-02-01

Here are suggestions for locating info on the Web.

Learn how to squeeze a search engine http://searchenginewatch.com/facts/

Squeeze the FAU library online

Main screen done - http://www.fau.edu/library/

Proxy Server -done-  https://login.ezproxy.fau.edu/login

Books http://webluis.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/fclwlv3/wlv3/DBwebluis/CM02/DGcat/DBFA/P1basic, 
Advanced http://webluis.fcla.edu/cgi-bin/cgiwrap/fclwlv3/wlv3/DBFA/DI28905892/DGcat/RP3/CM2/P1advsrch

Electronic collection http://www.library.fau.edu/ecollect/ecollect.htm
Databases sorted by subject http://www.library.fau.edu/ecollect/dbsub.htm

Under databases, note the Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center.

Under electronic books, note the Britannica (http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/ref/ebooks.htm)
Compare Britannica with http://answers.com and the Wikipedia. (http://search.netscape.com/ns/search?query=wikipedia+criticism&x=0&y=0&st=webresults&fromPage=NSCPResultsT)

netLibrary (http://www.netlibrary.com/library_home_page.asp)

Interlibrary Loan http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/ill/illdept.htm Invisible Web/Deep Web (Invisible Web/Deep Web (http://www.answers.com/deep%20web)

Example: Now, using Google, find databases on brownfield pollution in Broward, by selecting buzz words from each column in the following table (one buzz word from each column). (Don't feel you have to read straight across the table; feel free to mix and match.)

database "real estate" brownfields
"data set" social conditions pollution
statistics pollution environment
abstracts brownfields  
reports political conditions  
profiles economy  
indicators economic conditions  
 
Posted 2006-02-01

Here is access to the Welfare Information Network's "cheat sheets."

Posted 2006-02-03

An interesting source of exemplary proposals (http://www.guru.com/category.cfm/504)

Posted 2006-02-12

If you have submitted HW late via fax or email, it would be a very good idea to check with me to see if I have entered it into my grade sheet.

Posted 2006-02-12

For info on obtaining thematic census maps, see http://www.answers.com/topic/thematic-map?method=22 and http://factfinder.census.gov/jsp/saff/SAFFInfo.jsp?_pageId=gn7_maps

Posted 2005-02-18.
Links on logic models
http://www.insites.org/documents/logmod.htm, 
http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf, 
http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/WC041 
Posted 2005-02-18.
Links on best practices
http://www.bestpractices.org/ 
Posted 2006-02-26

The FAU electronic library now has a database called GrantSelect. First enter http://www.fau.edu/library and use your Owl Card to enter the proxy server. Then surf through RESEARCH RESOURCES > INDEXES TO ARTICLES . .  >  DATABASES BY TITLE > G > GRANTSELECT.

The free office suite that I mentioned can be found at http://OpenOffice.org.The version that runs on a flash USB dongle is Portable Open Office.

Posted 2006-03-12

The difference between an organizational budget in the attachments and a project budget.

Cash match and in-kind match

Indirect costs

Specimen project budget summary (use in the exercise below)

Be sure to examine the specimen budget detail sheet located at http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles/buddetws.pdf

Here are some of the questions you must ask yourself:

Will there be any paid personnel? Will they be charged to the sheriff? How many hours and at what hourly rate?

Will there be any volunteers? How many hours? What is their value in dollars per hour?

Will the school board provide any free personnel services? For how many hours? And at what estimated hourly rate?

Does social security apply to any of the personnel items? What about benefits? Which items?

Will you want the sheriff to pay for any facilities used by your tutors?

Will the school board provide any facilities at no cost? What is their estimated value?

Will any materials be paid for by the sheriff? Provided by the school board? Provided by your people?

What have I forgotten?

Example of a budget detail sheet will be found in project budget.

Exercise in budgeting

http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/download/SSS-Center-mock.PDF

Posted 2006-03-21

Florida Public Personnel Association

Annual Scholarship Application

 

The Florida Public Personnel Association (www.fppa.org) is an organization of public sector human resources professionals and consultants. Annually it awards up to four scholarships in the amount of $500 to qualified students seeking a degree in Human Resources.  Candidate requirements are:

 

  • Full or part-time enrollment in an accredited college or university program with major coursework in the field of Human Resources.
  • Enrollment in the program must be by May 1, 2006 or proof of future enrollment as of the same date.
    •

 

Interested applicants should submit the following:

  • Resume
  • Transcripts
  • Proof of enrollment or future enrollment
    •

 

Submit documents by May 22, 2006 to:

 

Arlette Steinberger, Past President

Florida Public Personnel Association

C/O City of Fort Lauderdale Department of Human Resources

100 North Andrews Avenue

Fort Lauderdale, FL 33301

Asteinberger@fortlauderdale.gov    

954-828-5300

 

A selection committee will evaluate qualified candidates. The Florida Public Personnel Executive Board must approve recommended candidates.  Scholarships will be granted by July 10, 2006. The Association reserves the right to announce the name of the recipients and their educational institution at its Annual Awards Luncheon on July 24, 2006.      

 
Posted 2006-03-22. Professors' salaries. http://www.fau.edu/org/uff/Salaries.pdf
Posted 2006-03-25. Budget HW submissions

altidor-alpert.pdf

brodsky.pdf

charles-escalante.pdf

gustely-joinville.pdf

neugent-zigler.pdf

 

Case statement for a clinic in Georgia

Insertion for 2006-04-01

Posted 2006-04-03. 

Our last day of required attendance is 2006-04-15. I'll be in the room on 2006-04-22 to cover loose ends, and maybe Ms. Whitfield will come in, if you make an appointment with her.

Posted 2006-04-06.

Here is a link to my courses in major gifts fundraising (http://gollygrantsonline.com/6206-fr-fall-2005.htm) and nonprofit business ventures (http://gollygrantsonline.com/6931 Earned Income for Nonprofits Spring 2005.htm).

C H I L D R E N ‘S   S E R V I C E S   C O U N C I L

 

E M P L O Y M E N T    O P P O R T U N I T I E S

 

The Children’s Services Council of Palm Beach County, an independent special taxing district created to plan, develop, fund and evaluate programs for children, youth and families, currently seeks a qualified professional for the following team oriented position.

 

GRANT SPECIALIST

Salary Grade 8

$41,312 - $49,058

 

 RESPONSIBILITIES

This position is responsible for researching funding opportunities and assisting in the preparation of proposals for health and human services programs.  Researches and collects data for use in preparing grant applications.  Writes and manages grants and newsletters.  Maintains website and provides training and technical assistance. 

 

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in Health and Human Services, Education, Business or Public Administration or related field and two (2) years professional experience in grant writing and proposal development and excellent communication, research, writing, and computer skills required.  Contract position with benefits included.

 

 

An equivalent combination of education and experience may substitute for the minimum requirements listed.

 

 

Excellent Benefits Package Includes Employer Paid:

v     Employee Health, Dental and Life Insurance

v     Short Term Disability Insurance

v     Long Term Disability Insurance

v     Retirement (5 years vesting)

v     Employee Assistance Program

v     Tuition Reimbursement

v     12 Sick Days Per Year

v     12 Vacation Days Per Year

v     12 Holidays Per Year

v     Up to 4 Personal Days

v     Direct Deposit

 

 For consideration, submit cover letter and resume by 5 p.m. April 21, 2006 to HR@cscpbc.org or fax (561) 835-1956.  Please reference job title in subject.

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Posted 2006-May-01
For a free download of Jay  Mendell's  Black Sheep Fundraising: Rethinking Major Gifts for Your Stigmatized Nonprofit, send a blank email to 6233@mendelljay.emailaces.com .