Write a health related grant proposal that presents a program or a project which will cover a period of from two (2) years to up to five (5) years.

Lead-in to your Grant Proposal Development
At this point in the course you have covered all the tools and techniques you need to develop a grant proposal and many of these are of course embedded in your resource text. So now the last exercise of the course is to develop a grant proposal for a proposed program or project of your choice. I don’t want you to be apprehensive about this part of the course. As I mentioned before there are no perfect proposals and I have never written a perfect proposal. So I’m not looking for perfection but rather I’m looking at how you apply what you have learned about grant proposal development from your resource text and in following directions. We’ll read the foundation’s grant proposal guidelines which are short but applicable to the course. We’ll not be sending any grant proposals to the sponsor.

For this exercise you’ll create (on paper) youremployer or your non-profit organization. If you create an employer you will assume the role of grant proposal writer. If you create your own non-profit organization you can be the CEO of the organization but you still will assume the role of grant proposal writer. In any case you are an experienced grantsmanship individual who everyone in the organization looks up to you to acquire grant award funding to assist the organization in its health related programs or projects. In this exercise you can be as creative as you wish.
IMPORTANT: “There are no perfect proposals”
Georgia Health Foundation
The Georgia Health Foundation (GHF) is the potential sponsor to which we’ll write our grant proposal. I selected the GHF to which you’ll prepare your grant proposal because it should be easy to develop a health related idea. Go to http://gahealthfdn.org/. Scroll down and see what the GHF does…

We see the GHF supports non-profit organizations and also encourages collaborations among organizations. The GHF supports organizations in Georgia so it still seems the foundation could be a good fit for your organization. Click on Application Procedures.
The GHF has provided much information for potential applicants. We see the GHF is located in Atlanta, Georgia. An email address is provided and could be very useful if you had any questions about the GHF or a grant proposal.

The GHF limits the application (letter) to only three pages which is common for foundations. Some foundations may allow up to five (5) pages. For writing this first grant proposal I want you to have much more flexibility to learn so the following application modifications are valid and follow them exactly.
You may submit up to fifty (50) single-spaced, one-sided pages for the narrative. If you can present your grant proposal with less pages then that is perfectly fine. You DO NOT have to write fifty (50) pages…
Use Microsoft Word to write your narrative. Use Times New Roman no less then 10 point type. Preferably no less then 11 point type. The “sponsor” may copy your application to provide to reviewers so a large type font will copy much better.
Instead of $30,000 you may request up to $1,000,000.
Use one inch margins, Left, Right, Top and Bottom.
On the first page of your grant proposal center the legal name of your organization, office and mailing address, phone number and email address of the applicant contact. YOU are the applicant contact person.
You must number the application pages but you can place page numbers anywhere on the pages.
For References applicable to citations you may display them as Footnotes at the bottom of pages or Endnotes at the end of your narrative. Remember, the maximum pages allowed is 50 but Reference pages (Endnotes) are not counted in the 50 pages. The dilemma of how to display sources as they apply to citations is a real grantsmanship issue. Footnotes are easy to use but do add more pages to your narrative. If you don’t have many citations then Footnotes may be just fine. If you have many citations then you may use Endnotes and place the References at the end of your narrative. When I have been pushed to the limit on page numbers I have just used SuperScript numbers at the end of sentences where I had used information to be cited and then had a References page(s) at the end of my narrative. For each citation on my Reference page I would apply APA style and add appropriate SuperScript numbers to match those in the proposal narrative

NOTES: On the particular sections of your grant proposal you can develop them in any order you wish but I recommend you use the order as presented in the course and in your resource text.

Write a health related grant proposal that presents a program or a project which will cover a period of from two (2) years to up to five (5) years. You decide how long your proposed program or project will be active. Remember this is YOUR proposal and there are no wrong proposals in this exercise 🙂

For this exercise we’ll say evaluation-wise the GHF states the grant proposal will be worth up to 100 points. The maximum points the reviewers will award for each section are as follows: Introduction (10); Problem (20); Outcomes (20); Methods (15); Evaluation (10); Future Support (10) and Budget (15). NOTE: Remember, this exercise is worth 500 points and I reserve the right to add Bonus points
Use these seven (7) sections in your grant proposal.

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