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Week 4 – Discussion 1
Topic: Kids in Distress
Organization Background
Step 9 in the text provides an overview of the organizational background component. In 200-300 words, write up a background on the organization you have selected for your project, addressing some of the following components (addressed on page 88 of the text):
a. A brief description of the organization and its mission and vision, as well as a description of how it came to be (its history).
b. The demographics of the community your organization serves, followed by the ways in which both the board members and the staff reflect those demographics. This information is growing steadily in importance to funders, as they want to make sure that the nonprofit is in the best position to truly understand and connect with the community it strives to serve.
c. A description of the organization’s position and role in the community. Who are the organization’s collaborating partners in the community?
d. A discussion of the ways the organization is unique in comparison to others providing similar services.
Week 4 – Discussion 2
The Grant Writing Process
Search the Internet and/or the online library for articles on the “how-to’s” of writing grants. Summarize the article you select in 150-200 words. What key points should a grant writer keep in mind in order to successfully persuade potential funders with a well-formulated grant proposal?
Week 4 – Assignment
Evaluation Planning
Download Worksheet 6.1: Evaluation Planning Questionnaire. Once you have opened Worksheet 6.1, select “save as,” and save it to your own computer as a Word document. Answer each question on the questionnaire by typing your responses directly into the worksheet, and upload the completed worksheet as part of your written assignment.
Note: You will use this paper and completed questionnaire to craft the evaluation component that will be included in your grant proposal/final project due in Week Six (a Sample Evaluation Component is included on page 56 of the text).
Resources
Required Text
O’Neal-McElrath, T. (2013).
Winning grants step by step: The complete workbook for planning, developing and writing successful proposals (Links to an external site.)
(4th ed.). San Francisco: Jossey-Bass. ISBN: ISBN: 978-1-118-37834-2
· Step 6: Preparing the Evaluation Component
· Step 9: Writing the Organization Background Component
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Worksheets
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Kids In Distress
WORKSHEET 6.1A: Evaluation Planning Questionnaire
Use the filled-out Worksheet 6.1B in the book as an example to follow as you complete this questionnaire.
1. What questions will your organization’s evaluation activities seek to answer?
2. What are the specific evaluation plans and time frames?
a. What kinds of data will be collected?
b. At what points?
c. Using what strategies or instruments?
d. Using what comparison group or baseline, if any?
WORKSHEET 6.1A: Evaluation Planning Questionnaire (Continued)
3. If you intend to study a sample of participants, how will this sample be constructed?
4. What procedures will you use to determine whether the program was implemented as planned?
5. Who will conduct the evaluation?
6. Who will receive the results?
7. How are you defining success for this program or project?
(Continued)
Winning Grants Step by Step, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2013 by John Wiley & Sons, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Step 9
Writing the Organization
Background Component
IN ADDITION TO THE PLANNING SECTIONS of the proposal, grantseekers
need to develop an organization background component. This step provides
an overview of the purpose of an organization background statement and
of what it should contain to best establish a nonprofi t’s credibility. Using
examples and a worksheet, grantseekers will learn how to present their
organization’s strengths to funders.
Purpose of the Organization Background Statement
What are the mission, values, and other distinguishing characteristics of the
organization? And what is it about this particular organization that enables
it to successfully execute on what it promises to deliver? The organization
background component answers these two questions and more. This is the
section of the proposal that highlights all the positive qualities of the orga-
nization, which means this section can get rather lengthy if restraint is not
employed. Try to limit this component to no more than three pages. A good
organization background statement describes the nonprofi t well enough to
assure prospective funders that this nonprofi t can successfully undertake
the proposed program.
Funders may refer to this section as the “Introduction” or the “Applicant
Description,” but the same basic information is expected regardless of its
name. This section of the proposal should allow the reviewer to get a strong
impression that the organization
• Meets an unmet need or fi lls an essential role in the community
• Is fi scally secure
• Is well managed
O’Neal-McElrath, Tori, and Mim Carlson. Winning Grants Step by Step : The Complete Workbook for Planning, Developing and Writing Successful Proposals, John Wiley & Sons,
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• Provides important community services
• Understands the community it serves
• Refl ects that community in its board and staff
• Has the respect of the community
Content of the Organization Background Component
Organizations should include the following:
• A description of the organization and its mission and vision, and how
it came to be—its history.
• The demographics of the community served by the organization,
followed by the ways in which both the board members and the staff
refl ect those demographics. This information is growing steadily in
importance to funders, as they want to ensure that the nonprofi t is in
the best position to truly understand and connect with the community
it seeks to serve.
• A description of the organization’s position and role in the com-
munity. Who are the organization’s collaborating partners in the
community?
•
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Step 6
Preparing the Evaluation
Component
EVERYTHING COMPLETED UP TO THIS POINT in the development of the
organization’s proposal (problem statement, goals, objectives, and methods)
naturally leads to this component, as evaluation answers critical questions
that both the organization and the funder have, such as
• Was the program successful?
• Did it do what it was designed to do?
• What impact did the program have on the community or target
population?
• What did the organization learn from this experience that can be
leveraged?
• What didn’t work—and why or why not?
• What’s different in the community or the lives of those targeted as a
result of the program?
Just as the preparation of the goals, objectives, and methods required
clarity, focus, and strategy, it is now more important than ever to plan how
the organization will evaluate what it proposes to do. This step explores
learning how to write an authentic and effective evaluation plan so that the
organization can effectively demonstrate the success of its program and mea-
sure program impact—and also capture the lessons learned. An exercise will
help grantseekers think about what their evaluation plans should contain.
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56 Winning Grants Step by Step
Purpose of the Evaluation Component
Evaluation is a process that determines the impact, effectiveness, and effi ciency
of a program. It reveals what worked and—equally important—what did not.
Decisions made during this process can help the organization plan for the
program’s future, and the process can produce an organized and objective
report documenting the return on investment for funders and the realized
benefi ts to the community the organization serves. How a program will be
evaluated must be determined prior to implementation so that the organiza-
tion can build evaluation measurements into the fi nal program plan—before
the program or its expansion is launched. Always keep in mind that funders
expect to hear from organizations how they defi ne and measure the success
of a program, whether they explicitly request an evaluation or not.
Specifi c Virtues of Evaluation
First, a good evaluation component strengthens the proposal from the
funder’s perspective. Grantseekers are asking potential grantmakers to invest
in their organization and program—and they are asking the funding staff to
be their advocate. They want the funder to bet on the fact that the world as
the nonprofi t sees it will be improved in some specif
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