Monday, May 4, 2009

Link to Swine Flu statistics

On May 3, CDC is scheduled to complete deployment of 25 percent of the supplies in the Strategic National Stockpile (SNS) to all states in the continental United States. These supplies and medicines will help states and U.S. territories respond to the outbreak. In addition, the Federal Government and manufacturers have begun the process of developing a vaccine against the novel H1N1 flu virus.

If you are concerned about the Swine Flu, check out this link that I found.
http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ FangsLivingDead_468x60.jpg banner banner

Friday, May 1, 2009

Experienced Technical and Professional Grant Writer

Experienced Technical and Professional Grant Writer

Services include:

Finding best-fit funding sources
Applying to government, private, and corporate grant programs
Analyzing grant applications and RFPs (Request for Proposals)
Conducting a thorough needs assessment
Developing innovative program activities
Establishing goals and objectives
Creating a management plan for implementation
Disseminating information and program findings
Planning for program sustainability
Building strong budgets that withstand cuts
Using writing styles for visual appeal
Understanding e-grant applications and online forms
Learning what happens after the grant is submitted

Grant Writing Consulting Services

Grant Writing Consulting Services

Services Include:

Identify government, private, and corporate grant funding sources
Conduct a community needs assessment
Write convincing problem statements
Develop innovative program designs
Create program-driven budgets
Prepare grant proposals and applications
Integrate unique components to gain extra point

Introduction to Grant Writing

Introduction to Grant Writing


Topics include:


Identify government, private, and corporate grant funding sources
Conduct a community needs assessment
Write convincing problem statements
Develop innovative program designs
Create program-driven budgets
Prepare grant proposals and applications
Integrate unique components to gain extra point

Tips for Applying for Federal Grants

Tips for Applying for Federal Grants

1. Continuously seek grant opportunities.

2. Keep ongoing contact with organizations that award grants.

3. Decide who will receive information on grants, who will write the proposals and who will manage the grants.
4. Plan how the grant will be integrated into your overall plans.
5. Read carefully and follow the application directions.
6. Be specific and concise with information in the grant application.
7. Grant applications must be east to read.
8. Each section of the application should relate to others to create a fluid document.
9. Write short paragraphs.
10 Provide headings for different sections.
11. Grant must be properly and professionally written.
12. Include a cover level.
13. Provide an introduction with a summary of the proposal.
14. Provide a table of contents if the grant is lengthy or broken into sections.
15. Give reason for the need of the grant. Identify the problem to be addressed then narrow the focus to the precise use of the grant.
16. Provide long and short term objectives.
17. Present the standards for the program. What is the target for success and how will it be measured.
18. Give a future for the program once the grant is complete.
19. Include a budget; specify administrative and program costs.
20. Be complete; try to allow time for review.
21. Providing a high quality document, addressing all key elements will increase success.
22. Check if grant needs to needs to be reviewed locally under Executive Order 12372.
23. Get support from elected officials, business leaders and community leaders.
24. Follow all grant proposal submittal requirements. These can vary for each grant.
25. Do not miss deadlines.

Thursday, April 30, 2009

Before your search even begins, you must have a project that you wish to fund. What is it that you want to accomplish? Any project you support must align with the needs of your school or community. Grant providers want to clearly see the necessity of your program. To make sure that your project fulfills a need, compare what your school or community has now to what you feel it should have. Use this information to create possible solutions. The upfront time spent investigating this chasm between your school's reality and your vision for it will pay off when it comes time to write your grant proposal. Do some preliminary research to find a solid educational basis for your idea. Map out the steps necessary to complete your project including necessary funding at each step. Remember throughout your design phase to keep in mind how you will evaluate your project using measurable outcomes. Make a Project Worksheet
Make a preliminary worksheet concerning what you believe you will need for your project. By doing this, you can get a clear picture of what the grant you are searching for must look like. Some items your chart could include are:
Project Overview
Need for Project
Research Sources
Amount Needed
Special School/Community Circumstance
Evaluation Methods Searching for Options
The most important piece of advice you can get when beginning your grant search is to carefully match your project with the grantor's award requirements. For example, if the desired grant is only given to schools in inner cities, only apply if you meet that criterion. Otherwise, you'll be wasting your time. With that in mind, three major sources for grant money exist: Federal and State Governments, Private Foundations, and Corporations. Each has its own agenda and differing levels of requirements concerning who can apply, the application process itself, how the money must be spent, and the methods of evaluation. So where can you search for each type? Luckily there are some awesomesites on the internet.
You are welcome to modify and use this basic grant match rubric to determine how well the grant fits your project.

Swine Flu?

Today, when I awoke, I had this strange but not so strange idea. I wondered did someone create the Swine Flu, like they created syphilis and AIDS in a laboratory. Is this another attempt to modern day genocide? There have been several attempts to eliminate cultures of people throughout the American history. And it is all documented in history books. Something like this is really disturbing in 2009. The past can never be forgotten, so with that being said I'm very concerned about where this "Swine Flu" derived from. I don't think that it just appeared on the earth and started killing people. Somebody knows something and we need to find them and question who ever did this.

Some might suggest that South Korean President Kim Dae-jung explosives that he crashed in the Pacific was actually a biochemical weapon. Ironically, his bomb crashed nearly one week before the SWINE FLU surfaced in the US. And if it came from the Almighty Creator why is it that you only find it in the US?

Something seems fishy! Who is going to find out what the real deal is?