Whew! Finally home from a grant-writing party. I have been working all day on a grant to fund training for NGOs in Kenya on program management for more efficient HIV/AIDS treatment. My team is great, lots of experience in grantwriting and Africa specifically. Making great contacts! There are several parallels here with LOEP, the in-country and follow up training, sustainable train-the-trainor, etc... It's a federal grant we are writing, asking the CDC for money. Mom, how come we haven't looked at federal funding? There are BILLIONS of dollars out there!
I'm pooped, and going to bed. Back in class tomorrow, but we get out at 6:00. Then I'm going to volunteer in the Call Center at work...
Night all!
8 years ago
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We have looked at federal funding. There is a lot of money but it comes with a price - organizations have to have a pretty good administrative bureaucratic structure in place to conform to requirements of program evaluation, accountability, etc. It is hard for a small, simple project like LOEP to conform to those kinds of regulations and restrictions. The good thing is that there is discretionary money like what you are talking about that is available without some of the strings. That is what I am hoping to tap into by opening a relationship with Frank Wolfe. A lot of that discretionary $$ is available to congresspersons to use as they see fit.
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