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The latest grant information to help you secure funding for your important projects
(click on each subject for complete details):
 Build-A-Bear Foundation
Lego Children's Fund
Highmark Foundation Announces School Challenge Program
United Healthcare Children's Foundation Grants
GTECH Computer Labs for After-School Programs
Coca Cola Foundation Target Education
RGK Foundation focuses on Education, Community, and Medicine/Health
Hilton Hotels Support Schools, Youth & Healthcare
Lowe's Charitable & Educational Foundation Supports Public School Projects
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Your Need for Sensory Interventions
A Statement of Need (also called a Problem Statement) can range from 2 to 10 pages in length. An effective need statement includes…
- Information about the applicant agency
- Great detail about the community and user population
- Lots of current data about both of the above
- Discussion of the scope and quality of existing resources (e.g. other prog available to the user population)
- Identification of the gaps in service
- A strong link drawn from the problem to the proposed solution
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How You Will Use Snoezelen MSE
A Project Description contains all the details of your proposed intervention and its planned operation. A complete Project Description would…
- Discuss the proposed program in context with other initiatives operated by your organization.
- Provide a solid foundation (reason) for using the proposed methods (i.e. Snoezelen)
- Detail, in depth, the research supporting the use of proposed methods.
- Explore how the program may be sustained after grant funds are spent.
- Explain how other resources are leveraged into the project.
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Evaluating the Success of the Intervention
There are two ways to evaluate any grant program:
1. Cumulative (process)
2. Summative (outcome)
The process evaluation determines whether activities are happening as projected.
The outcome evaluation shows that the goal and objectives have been achieved.
Be certain to…
- Establish baseline data (i.e. how many times students disrupted teaching in the classroom before the intervention).
- Contrast baseline data to outcome data (i.e. how many times students disrupted teaching in the classroom after the intervention).
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Budgeting for a Snoezelen MSE Intervention
Most grant budgets have two presentations:
1. Budget Narrative
2. Budget Summary
The Budget Narrative explains precisely how you arrived at the cost of each item.
The Budget Summary totals costs in specific categories Remember that…
- The total figure on the narrative and the summary must match
- Each item on your budget must relate to one or more of the objectives of your project.
- Some grant makers want a cash or in-kind financial match
- The funder may cap certain expenses
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