Planning for Future Funding: How to create a community comprehensive plan with federal funding in mind
Tue, Aug 3, 2010 10:00 AM – 11:30 AM
Detailed comprehensive plans and federal funding grants need some of the same elements to thrive. Writing about the vision for investing in a community’s empty brownfields, affordable housing and economic development needs, and health issues can serve as a platform in applying for federal grants. These aspirations, when effectively written and documented, can be used as the basis for grant applications. If a community identifies its needs as part of the planning process, it can, as part of a continuous proposal building process, pinpoint which grants will help meet those needs.
Nov 8th Presentation! Improving Your Odds at Getting Funded:
Best Practices in Developing Federal Proposals
TA Providers: Deborah Minor-Harvey & James Pfluecke, IRN Technical Assistance Providers
This workshop identifies best practices in federal grant proposal project management including developing a work plan and your work team. Participants learn about the organizational capacity needed to successfully complete a federal grant proposal, how to assess and document your community’s needs, and how to develop a time line for the successful completion of all aspects of the proposal.
Workshop Hand-outs
Nov 3rd Presentation! Work together as partners to strengthen your community and region
Illinois ResourceNet’s offers a workshop to help introduce nonprofit organizations to the principles of collaboration, the nature and type of collaborative and what it takes to work together in a sustainable manner. In particular, collaboratives play a vital role in Illinois ResourceNet’s commitment to building capacity in the nonprofit sector in Illinois to facilitate stronger federal grant development and submissions.
Lauri Alpern, an Illinois ResourceNet technical assistance provider will lead the workshop and will guide participants through the process of partnership development and completion of tasks in a group setting.
Simplifying the complicated budget section
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at the Great Cities Institute located at 412 S. Peoria Street, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607 Register Now
Writing a federal proposal is a multi-step process with every tier requiring an equal level of intense consideration. The federal budget piece is probably the most detailed and specific item on the federal proposal to-do list. Illinois ResourceNet’s face-to-face workshop will tackle the topic of federal budgets and help attendees sort through the daunting section of the federal proposal.
Jay Readey, Illinois ResourceNet technical assistance provider, will explain the importance of managing your organization’s finances to improve your success in applying for a federal grant.
Highlights from the federal budget process workshop include:
• The differences between indirect and direct cost rates
• Allowable expenditures
• Matching and cost sharing and accounting compliance requirements.
In addition, this session describes the principles used in developing a budget narrative.
Attendees will walk away knowing how to plan and monitor financial activity, while establishing a solid line of communication between program staff and budgeting staff. Organizations need to be prepared to manage the federal budget detailed in their proposals.
Space is limited for this event.
The cost for this event is $35 and includes the cost of UIC lot parking if you are coming by car. Additional parking information will be covered in your order confirmation.
The workshop will be held from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. on Wednesday, August 4, 2010 at the Great Cities Institute located at 412 S. Peoria Street, Suite 400, Chicago, IL 60607. Great Cities Institute is located within the UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs.
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Illinois ResourceNet’s 2nd Annual Statewide Conference
Thursday, September 16, 2010, UIC Forum, Chicago, IL, 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Place-Based Funding in Illinois: Federal, State, and Regional Insights
Conference attendees will have the opportunity to engage trainers skilled in specific areas of grant development during the five (5) breakout sessions.
Topics for the sessions include:
- Collaborative proposal development
- Case examples of successful grantees
- Data collection and interpretation for grant writing
- Elements of successful grant writing
- Layering federal funding proposals
Trade-Fair Booth Exhibitors
The conference trade fair proved to be one of the most sought out portions of last year’s event. In response to our attendees multiple requests, we have extended the trade fair, at which federal and state agencies, intermediary organizations, and other groups with significant programs in capacity building present at booths and interact with participants.
2010 IRN Conference Trade Fair Booth Exhibitors
- US Department of Energy (DOE)
- US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD)
- US Department of Labor (DOL)
- US Department of Education
- UIC Office of Professional Education
- Illinois State Treasury Department
- DCEO Bureau Of Energy and Recycling
- Smart Energy Design Assistance Center (SEDAC)
- IL Emergency Management Agency (IEMA)
- US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)- Administration for Children and Families (ACF)
- US Department of Education
- US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
- IL Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity (DCEO)
- United Way
- Community Media Workshop
- University of Illinois Extension (UIE)/Illinois ResourceNet (IRN)
- Chicago Metropolitan Agency for Planning (CMAP)
- Donors Forum
- Lumpkin Foundation
- US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)
- And more to be confirmed
An Illinois ResourceNet Technical Assistant Provider, Deborah Minor-Harvey will guide first-time federal grant-seekers in a detailed explanation of the steps leading to the drafting and submission of competitive federal grants. The 2-hour workshop caters to nonprofit organizations and local units of government looking to access the skills necessary to become an informed grantee aiming to apply for available federal opportunities for the first time.
This session provides participants with essential tips to writing federal grant proposal including how to use the request for proposal announcement as a guide, building an outline, and writing a complete grant. Participants will also learn how to articulate the flow of their program operations through logic models and how to write the evaluation section.
The presentation provides an overview covering topics from pre-grant writing preparation and assessing readiness to submitting a completed grant proposal.
Highlights from the federal funding grant process workshop include:
* Learning how to target workforce efforts and understand where to find valuable sources of information.
* Telling your organization’s story and developing a brand.
* Transitioning from a working outline to a ‘live’ submission.
Moline, Illinois (Quad-Cities)
REGIONAL CONFERENCE- Collaboration for Collective Impact
Thursday, April 28, 2011 8:30am—3:30pm Ramada Inn, Moline, ILUniversity of Illinois Extension presents an Illinois ResourceNet Regional Conference
Illinois ResourceNet: A Funding Access Initiative (IRN) will hold a regional conference in Moline, Illinois on April 28th, 2011 focused on collaboratives working locally and countrywide to create functioning networks of community organizations and local units of government that provide services and produce quality grant submissions.
The conference “Collaborating for Collective Impact” is designed for local units of government and organizations working together to apply for available for funding. More now than ever, collaboration is necessary in nonprofit organizations of all types. In Illinois, there are growing number of “collaboratives,” and intentional partnerships where organizations are joining forces to address a range of societal issues. Collaboratives run the gamut from informal networks to formal entities, which combine the efforts and expertise of various organizations to supply communities with the diverse services needed to function more effectively and efficiently.
