GIFTS = Generating Income through Facilitation, Training, and Support
GIFTS is an innovative approach to better meet the grants management needs of small-to-moderately sized community-based organizations and Native American tribes.
Small organizations, or departments within larger agencies and tribes have a unique set of needs.
- Each staff member wears too many hats.
- Program directors are not grant writers, but are often responsible for writing grants to sustain their programs.
- High staff turnover, a loss of talent and experience.
- Fund development and planning requires time and knowledge of available resources.
- First-time funded programs often run into problems understanding and meeting the grant reporting requirements.
- Programs fall short in documenting outcomes through poorly understood, or poorly implemented, evaluation programs.
- When it is time for writing a grant renewal, no one can find the original grant application or understands the reasons for the way it was written.
GIFTS can remedy these problems through training, staff support, and technical assistance so that organizations can be about the business of providing services to their communities.
We want to be a part of your grant writing team. Here is what GIFTS offers:
- Grant writing services – We can work closely with program staff to prepare effective applications to governmental and non-governmental funding opportunities.
- Grant writing training for new staff members – These training sessions teach basic grant writing skills and provide instruction for identifying and organizing frequently used information.
- Editing and technical review – We will proof and edit content to improve the appearance, readability, and grammar of your application.
- Notices of funding opportunities – We will strive to understand your funding needs, research possibilities, and forward to you funding opportunities as we identify them.
- Reporting reminders and support – Once funded, we will create a reporting calendar for each program to ensure no report deadlines are missed. We can also help in developing and reviewing the reports.
- Evaluation planning – We know that programs with documented outcomes get more money. We can help develop an evaluation design for your grant application that will not only meet the requirements of the fund maker but also help you improve your program’s performance while documenting your successes for future funding endeavors.
- Institutional history – We will retain records and copies of grants and reports so that any changes in personnel, technology, and/or program locations will not impact your ability to respond to a proposal.
Let us help you build effective programs efficiently and cost-effectively. Contact us to set up a customized program that meets your needs.