writing a wining ict grant proposal in an hour
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Given at KCSC Funding Fare - 21 June 2010TRANSCRIPT
How to fight the credit crunch or do more with less
Writing a winning ICT grant proposal – one hour version
Miles Maier
Lasa
London ICT Champion24 June 2010
Take-Aways
1. assess your ICT needs2. identify benefits3. identify objectives and outcomes4. costing the project5. Identify funders6. Top Tips
1. Assess Your ICT Needs
What is a health check? Benefits
EXERCISE 1: DIY Health Check Use the ICT Health Check worksheet to answer
questions about your own organisation Highlight one issue and discuss it with the group
1. Assess Your ICT Needs
Using the Managing ICT checklists
www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/healthchecklists
Inventorying Belarc Adviser, Spiceworks
2. Benefits and priorities
EXERCISE 2 – identify project benefits
better communication
increased collaboration
increased efficiency
improved service delivery
better tracking and decision making
3. Objectives
EXERCISE 3 - Making the business case
proposal – project description
objectives – what you are doing and why
outcomes – specific results on achieving objectives
outputs – goods/services produce
4. Costing your project
Exercise 4 – Costing ICT projects
What’s full cost recovery?www.fullcostrecovery.org.uk
What are realistic prices?www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/calculatingtechnologybudget
5. Funding your project
List of 90 ICT funders – (www.icthub.org.uk/research)
Your local CVS, library or other infrastructure org
NCVO Funding Central (www.fundingcentral.org.uk) - free to use database, resources and funding alerts
Fit for Funding (www.fit4funding.org.uk) - useful information sheets and a monthly email newsletter
Funders Online Portal (www.efc.be) – free access to news and resources on European funding streams
GRANT finder UK (www.grantfinder.co.uk) - online database of charitable, gov’t and EU funds. Free at your local CVS
Funderfinder (www.funderfinder.org.uk) - excellent fact sheets on fundraising skills. Costs £185 to access the online GIN directory or FREE at your local CVS
Trust Funding (www.trustfunding.org.uk) - for professionals. Subscribe from £225
UK Fundraising (www.fundraising.co.uk) - aimed at professional fundraisers. Free newslette
5. Funding your project
6. Top Tips
Discounted software www.pugh.co.uk www.phoenixs.co.uk
Donated software/network hardware www.ctxchange.org
Reconditioned and recycled hardware www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk www.suppliersdirectory.org.uk
6. Top Tips
Aggregate the news – RSS
Collaborate Google Docs or Microsoft Office Live
Free video conferencing www.oovoo.com, www.skype.com
Arranging meetings – www.doodle.com
Free event management – www.eventbrite.com
Free surveys - www.surveymonkey.com
Workshop prepared by
Miles MaierLondon Region ICT Champion
www.lasa.org.uk/ictchampion
020 7426 4496