Four Winds Educational Consulting
  • Home
  • FWEC Services
  • Grantwriting Guidelines
  • Who I Work With
  • Foundation Awards
  • Resources
  • Contact & Bio
  • Code of Ethics

Blog

Common Grant Questions You May Encounter

5/12/2019

1 Comment

 
Picture
GENERAL QUESTIONS
Organization’s mission and primary activities:

Organization’s accomplishments/awards:

Organization’s historical/institutional memory:

Number of paid employees:

Number of FTE (full time equivalent):

Fringe benefit costs:

Number of volunteers:

Volunteers (# of people and hours) per year/month/week:

Number of board members:

Number of board members who contribute to annual budget:

Number of board meetings per year:

Breakdown of organization revenue for the last year:
Memberships :
Individual Contributions:
Earned Income (Ticket sales, fees for service, etc.):
Fundraising benefits:
Corporate/business contributions:
Government support:
Foundation support:
Endowment earnings:
Other:

Organization's unrestricted cash reserves at beginning of current year:

What is your administrative overhead?  Indirect costs? %?

Do you receive funding from the government?  United Way?  How much?

List of five single largest contributors from last year’s revenue sources:
 
PROJECT QUESTIONS
Project contact person's information:

Project description (one sentence):

Key project components:

How many persons will benefit directly from the project?

What specific group(s)---youth, elderly, homeless, disabled, immigrant, LGBT…….?

Is the project for which you are requesting funds intended to benefit the general public, or is it intended to reach a specific population group?

Total project budget:

Total amount requested:

Is this a multi-year request? Not all grant programs accept multi-year requests.

Please list all proposed sources of funding. You may include the value of in-kind support. Please indicate whether or not the funding has been secured.

Please list all budgeted expenditures. Project expenses listed here should correlate to project activities. 

Please describe how funds would be allocated for the project.

Tell us about your organization. What are your mission and track record?

Highlight two or three key facts and accomplishments that best define your organization.

What need does your project address?
​
What critical community problem needs to be addressed or what organizational capacity are you hoping to build?

What do you propose to do about this need?

What is your plan for addressing this need?

What are your goals? Please be concrete.

How will you do it?
When and with whom?
What are the specific activities to be supported?
How long will they take?

If your project involves partnerships with other organizations, have the proposed partners agreed to participate?

Who is responsible for your project?
Briefly describe your project leaders and the role that each will play in the project.
How do these leaders reflect the population or community that you serve?

How will you measure results?

What will success look like?

How will you measure or document project success or impact?

Please outline your evaluation plan.

What is your plan for securing the balance of the project budget?

What is your fundraising timeline?

If other potential resources cannot provide all of the support requested, what will you do?

How will you sustain the proposed activities or build on what you achieved?

​Please describe your plan for securing the financial, human and in-kind resources needed to sustain or build on project achievements.



1 Comment

August 19th, 2018

8/19/2018

0 Comments

 
0 Comments

    Author: Ahavah Oblak

    Mother, Jewish, Nonprofit Advocate, educator,  grant writer, curriculum developer, dual US/Israel citizen, friend, dancer, lover of life.

    Categories

    All
    Africa
    Art
    Arts & Culture
    Bach Flowers Essences
    Celebration
    Civil Liberties
    Collaboration
    Community
    Consultations
    Consulting
    Curriculum 9th-12th
    Curriculum PreK Kindergarten
    Curriculum PreK-Kindergarten
    Drumming
    Editing
    Education
    Environment
    Eugene Springfield
    Eugene-Springfield
    Events
    Flower Remedies
    Food
    Forests
    Friends
    Fundraising
    Grants
    Grant Writing
    Grant Writing Resources
    Haiti
    Heaing
    Healing
    Health
    Hunger
    Innerwork
    Inner Work
    InStove
    Israel
    Jewish
    Language
    Lobbying
    Local
    Mental Health
    Mitzvah
    Mothering
    NAGPRA
    Native American
    Native American Resources
    Natural Medicine
    NEDCO
    Nonprofit
    Oregon
    Pacific NW Issues
    Peace
    Performance
    Pine Ridge Reservation
    Reviewing
    Salmon
    Schools
    Strategic Planning
    Support Groups
    Teacher Resources
    Templates
    Traditional Arts
    Volunteering
    Waldorf
    Women
    Youth
    Youth Resources

    Archives

    March 2021
    June 2020
    April 2020
    March 2020
    May 2019
    February 2019
    August 2018
    November 2017
    September 2017
    April 2017
    February 2017
    March 2016
    February 2016
    January 2016
    December 2015
    September 2015
    June 2015
    May 2015
    April 2015
    March 2015
    February 2015
    January 2015
    September 2014
    February 2014

    RSS Feed

Four Winds Educational Consulting, LLC
Eugene, OR
fourwindseducationalconsulting@gmail.com
541.441.2614

“Nothing is unreal as long as you can imagine like a crow”― Munia Khan

Photo used under Creative Commons from The Bearmaiden
  • Home
  • FWEC Services
  • Grantwriting Guidelines
  • Who I Work With
  • Foundation Awards
  • Resources
  • Contact & Bio
  • Code of Ethics