Presenting Your Request for a Grant
This is not a required outline for presentations. It is provided to help you think about education your audience in a way that will be easy for them to follow and to remind you of important areas to address.
Introduce yourself briefly:
- * You’ve only got five minutes, so you want to get to your project quickly.
Define the problem you are addressing:
- *What Southwest Michigan social justice problem are you addressing?
- *What evidence shows the scope, significance, and effects of the problem?
- *Why does this problem exist? What public policy is causing or standing in the way of solving the problem? Who is profiting from the current situation?
Explain the approach/strategy of your project:
- *What are you doing (or will you do) to address the problem? How are you creating more equitable access to resources or services?
- *As relevant, explain organizational structure, actions that will be taken, coalitions that will be build, ways you will build awareness for your efforts, etc.
- *If you are seeking to expand an existing effort, what demonstrates your success so far?
- *Who else is working on the same problem in Kalamazoo? Are you collaborating with them? Are there existing resources that you are leveraging?
- *What makes, or will make your project sustainable?
- *What steps will you take to educate others about the public policy obstacle?
- *Does your project move us closer to systemic, equitable distribution of resources in our city?
Explain how you will use an Urban Democracy Feast grant.
- * How will you apply the money?
- * How will the grant affect the sustainability of your efforts?
- * What is your plan for the next six months, at which point you will report back at the next FEAST? How will you measure progress and success?
- * What are your plans beyond the next six months?