tamu HLTH 482 knowledge check one

Most requests for proposals (RFPs) include:

a. A description of the program you must propose in order to win a grant

b. Guidelines you must follow

c. A due date for submission of the proposal

All of the above are generally included in an RFP

Foundations are:

All shapes and sizes, with different priorities, guidelines, and purposes

When applying for foundation grants, you should:

Know what kinds of organizations the foundation has funded and mention it when it's appropriate

Federal government grant opportunities are:

Always announced in the Federal Register or at Grants.gov

A good way for very small organizations to begin grant seeking is to apply for:

Donations from local businesses

Grants are usually given to organizations that can demonstrate:

Compelling need

Which of the following is not a good example of the kind of data you might include in a grant proposal?

Your own intuition

The best example of a needs statement is:

a. According to police precinct data, 50 percent of youth between 15 and 19 in the Bayside neighborhood have been arrested

b. According to the Area Agency on Aging, 75 percent of senior citizens in the South Senior Center are immigrants who don't know if they can receive any benefits

c. Three clergymen in Bayside expressed their concern about the drug problem

How many footnotes should there be in a typical needs section of a grant proposal?

As many as you need to make your case

To increase school attendance for teenagers who are truant:

Provide student stipends based on good attendance records

To decrease feelings of loneliness and depression among older adults at a senior center

. Offer a creative writing program that promotes discussion among participants

b. Assign a staff member to introduce new members and engage them with existing groups

c. Bring young children to the senior center to join seniors in an intergenerational arts program

To make the streets in your community safer:

Bring the community together to advocate for more frequent police patrols

b. Start a block watch committee

Activities are the least important part of the grant proposal.

false

Too much detail in describing your program distracts the reviewer.

false

Use terms you know the grantmaker will understand and appreciate in describing the program.

true

Funders prefer that you propose only about half of the activities you expect to conduct so there's room for change.

false

Try to write in generalities just in case you change your mind.

false

Make sure you list specific activities for each of your objectives.

true

Write the activities first, then frame the objectives based on what you plan to do.

false

Timelines are baloney; they waste precious space in a proposal.

false

Funders understand that the person who writes the proposal may not know too much about activities; they'll be sympathetic if you're vague.

false

It is a good idea to do some grant-related work as soon as you know that you've won the money.

true

An organization's leadership is critical to a funder's assessment of the organization's capacity.

true

Before I apply for a government grant, I have to make sure my organization has the right fiscal controls in place.

true

Nobody cares where my board members work and how much time they spend overseeing this organization.

false

I should expect to put my organization's detailed history, all program descriptions, and staff résumés in every proposal I write.

false

Government agencies should brag about the resources they can bring to a grant-funded project.

true

Evaluation is only necessary for large government grants.

false

Process evaluation looks at how many, how much, how well, and how often.

true

A large, multiyear grant should have only an outcome evaluation to tell you what the program's impact was.

false

If a grant application requires an outside evaluator, you have to hire a consultant to help you with the evaluation section of the proposal.

false

An evaluation has to be a formal process using an academic research approach.

false

An evaluation considers only statistical data.

false

Whew... the grant application doesn't require an evaluation plan, so I'm off the hook.

false

. The best time to think about evaluation is at the very beginning—when you first begin designing the program.

true

Small demonstration projects don't need to be evaluated.

false

. Frankly, you should always work with an outside evaluator, even if you are applying for a $5,000 grant.

false

I'm desperate for a new copier for our executive offices. I should include one in the budget of the basketball grant I'm writing, right?

false

I'm desperate for new laptop computers so my students can communicate with other children throughout the world. The funder says no equipment costs. But if I explain carefully why they will improve reading scores, it's okay to put the laptops in the budget anyway.

false