{"id":534,"date":"2010-03-12T06:49:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-12T06:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/?p=534"},"modified":"2010-03-12T06:49:00","modified_gmt":"2010-03-12T06:49:00","slug":"form-a-grant-planning-committee-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/?p=534","title":{"rendered":"Form a Grant Planning Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Non-profit consultant and grant writer, Derek Link, offers some advice about forming a grant planning committee: <\/p>\n

For those of you brave enough to read a post with such a seemingly reckless title, one that could severely curtail our readership, forfeit RSS feeds by the millions, and perhaps even be banned in certain Western states, please keep reading you intrepid seekers of grant knowledge.
What I am suggesting is that if your organization needs grants, forming a planning committee will enable you to do several important things:<\/p>\n

1) Bring potential collaborative partners to the table<\/strong> \u2013 Successful grants these days \u2013 large ones in particular \u2013 often require that there are collaborative partners. This is because there can be overlapping and competing interests. Funders are worried that grant money will be wasted on poorly targeted or duplicative efforts.<\/p>\n

2) Accurately targeting needs for grant funding by spending enough time around a table talking, to truly understand an issue from diverse perspectives.<\/strong> Sometimes the answer to a problem is sharing existing resources not seeking new ones.<\/p>\n

3) Break past agency turf wars by spending enough time with leaders from other agencies to form solid relationships<\/strong>. Everyone wants the client to win, but sometimes agencies hold their mission so tightly they drive off potentially helpful collaborative partners.
There are other good reasons for forming a planning committee, and there are also cautions. Here are some key don\u2019ts:<\/p>\n

1. Don\u2019t accept members who won\u2019t send a decision-maker to the meetings.<\/p>\n

2. Don\u2019t keep members who don\u2019t\/won\u2019t make the commitment to attend every time you meet.<\/p>\n

3. Don\u2019t birdwalk \u2013 Make meetings N.E.A.T. (Nature-Expected Outcomes-Agenda-Time).<\/p>\n

4. Identify the common priorities using a needs assessment.<\/p>\n

5. Don\u2019t keep meeting if common ground can\u2019t be established.<\/p>\n

While another committee and another set of meetings may initiate a reaction similar to a carnival tilt-a-whirl, a grant planning committee can yield well-targeted, productively collaborative grant applications.<\/p>\n

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Non-profit consultant and grant writer, Derek Link, offers some advice about forming a grant planning committee: For those of you brave enough to read a post with such a seemingly reckless title, one that could severely curtail our readership, forfeit RSS feeds by the millions, and perhaps even be banned in certain Western states, please […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[157,222,91,16,108],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-derek-link","category-grant-planning","category-grant-writer","category-grant-writing","category-non-profit"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p353rU-8C","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.grantgoddessblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}