The address of this site is http://gollygrantsonline.com/recreation-2007-10-24.htm .

 

Program for the Florida Recreation and Park Association

24 October 2007 in Sunrise, FL (http://www.sunrisefl.gov/1about.html)

 

Presenter: Dr. Jay S. Mendell, author of Black Sheep Fundraising: Rethinking Major Gifts for Your Stigmatized Nonprofit (http://black-sheep-library.com).  

Reach Jay at 954.597-0574 in Tamarac, FL, or sned e-mail to MendellJay@gmail.com .

 

Three methods of obtaining funds  :20

Method	Source	Eligible	Tutorials
Grantwriting	Government, foundations, occasionally corporations	Government, nonprofits	Foundation Center (http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted/tutorials/shortcourse/index.html)
Fundraising	Generous individuals, community, corporations	Nonprofits, infrequently government	Ken Wyman, Fundraising Ideas That Work for Grassroots Groups (http://www.canadianheritage.gc.ca/progs/pc-cp/pubs/e/pdfdocs/Fr4grass.pdf)   Jay Mendell (http://black-sheep-library.com)
Earned income	Government, community, occasionally corporations	Nonprofits	Jim Masters (http://www.cencomfut.com/social_enterprise.htm)

 

Requests for Proposals (RFP) and Notices of Funding Availability (NOFA) are written in code. :30 (http://GollyGrantsOnline.com/download/RWF-Mock-request-for-proposal.PDF)

 

Where to search for grants :45

 Federal grants

•   Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (a wish list) (http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.FIND_ASSISTANCE_PROGRAM_DYN.show)

• grants.gov

State of Florida

• Florida Resource Guide (http://redi.myflorida.com/rediprod/redi_www.main_page.search)

• To do an additional search for state Florida grants go into Google.com and use
  SITE:MYFLORIDA.COM (GRANT OR GRANTS) YOUR-TOPIC-GOES-HERE.

Foundations and some corporate

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)

 

Corporate

Visit corporate Web page and look for “community relations,” “community service,” “corporate responsibility,” etc.

 

County grants

The newspaper

The grapevine

 

Exemplary grants (http://www.guru.com/category.cfm/504). Also (http://npfunds.com/grant_applications_sample.html) :20

 

Pay special attention to the scoring scheme  :20 (http://gollygrantsonline.com/download/Broward%20Cultural%20Affairs%20grant-2%20scoring.pdf).

 

Importance of personal relations :10

 

Structure of typical RFP  :40

  Need

  Program or project

Objectives/Evaluation United Way’s methodology for program evaluation http://national.unitedway.org/outcomes/ and the Kellogg Foundation on evaluation (http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub770.pdf) and logic models (http://www.wkkf.org/Pubs/Tools/Evaluation/Pub3669.pdf)

Qualifications

Budget

    In-kind and cash match

    Indirect costs