Fundamentals of Funding Proposals

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Description:

For those participants unable to attend the two-day, pre-conference grantwriting session, this session will offer a condensed version. This session discusses some of the Internet resources including the Neighborhood Networks Web site, available for locating funding sources in government agencies and private, community, and corporate foundations. Participants will also learn how to research grant opportunities and track grant opportunities and submittals. Tips for writing successful proposals and examples of successful proposals written by Neighborhood Networks center staff will be shared with participants.

Presenters:

Thaddeus Miles
Director of Public Safety
MassHousing
Phone: (617) 854-1138

Jillian Spindle
Director of Development and Marketing
Neighborhood Technology Resource Center
Phone: (312) 745-2630

Thaddeus Miles, the director of public safety at MassHousing, is responsible for designing and implementing crime prevention strategies affecting several thousand housing units throughout Massachusetts. He designs such strategies to directly engage residents in addressing quality of life issues. Mr. Miles spearheaded the development of 11 community-run Neighborhood Networks computer centers in the Roxbury and Dorchester areas of Boston that offer a variety of programming for all ages. Because of his success with the Boston centers, HUD invited Mr. Miles to start a consortium of all of its New England Neighborhood Network centers. This consortium concentrates its energies on improving peoples' access to computers and technology. The consortium plays a critical role in helping Neighborhood Networks centers and other community-oriented organizations develop and sustain critical technological access in New England communities. MassIMPACT has a special focus on digital media technology, including digital storytelling, as a means of providing communities the opportunity to capture and share their stories and experiences through technology.

Jillian Spindle is the director of development and marketing at the Neighborhood Technology Resource Center (NTRC), a nonprofit organization devoted to bringing technology access and training to underserved communities. The NTRC hosts four community technology centers (CTCs) in the Chicago area, one of which is a Neighborhood Networks center. Ms. Spindle has nine years of experience in community development and deploying information technology training and infrastructure solutions for nonprofit organizations and educational institutions. She has also worked to bring technology training to a center for teenage mothers in Kingston, Jamaica and an indigenous rights organization in La Esperanza, Honduras. Ms. Spindle also served as an adjunct faculty member at DePaul University in Chicago, where she taught an undergraduate class on community technology. She has served on grant review panels for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Ms. Spindle earned a master of arts degree in social sciences and a bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the University of Chicago. She also holds a certificate in nonprofit management from the University of Illinois at Chicago.

• Thaddeus Miles Presentation
• Jillian Spindle Presentation
• Basic Parts of a Grant
• Sample Budget
• Cover Letter
• Cover Sheet
• Private Grant Proposal
• Public Grant Proposal
• Sample Grant
• Grantwriting Resources
• Guidelines for Grantswriting
• Inquiry Letter
• Free Online Grant Searches
• Proposal Checklist
• RFP - Public
• RFP - Private