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Grants are a great way to meet budget gaps or find additional funding. Grant acquisition can be a daunting process and even the most excellently written grants can miss the mark due to something as simple as typos, formatting errors, or missed information.

This is where Velocity Grant Consulting can inject its well-defined preparation process into your organization's funding process goals.

Before your organization can actively pursue grant funding, it is absolutely worth the time and effort to give attention to some fundamental key steps.

KEY DEFINITIONS:

Grants

A monetary award that does not require repayment (the opposite of a loan). It requires reporting and evaluation.

Grant maker

A person/organization that gives grants.

ORGANIZATIONAL key STEPS:

STEP 1. Funding Opportunities Research

This area of the process focuses on screening potential grant makers and their mission to determine if your mission is well aligned with theirs. VGC will:

Determine if the Grant maker's funding focus aligns with your project funding needs.
Determine if your specific geographic area has consideration in funding approval.
Determine if your organization meets the Grant maker's eligibility requirements and funding guidelines.

STEP 2. Organizational Analysis Audit (O.A.A.)

Grant makers are not just interested in your proposed projects. They want to know that your organization can manage money, mitigate internal issues, develop community relationships, and be a community leader.

The O.A.A. ensures that all board structure, financial frameworks, general organizational structure, and branding are well established.

Additionally, and most importantly, this process will establish the sustainability and optimization of your nonprofit.

STEP 3. Organization Summary Marketing

VGC offers an option of 3 successful organization brochures to choose from.

This tool is used to succinctly visualize your organization's structure, focus, and goals to assist in securing project funding.

Organization Procedures

Are controlled documents designed to improve human performance and efficiency.
Organizational Procedures are done to assure that specific repetitive tasks are done error free by any staff member.
The goal is to always perform tasks in "Skill or Rule" base mode.
Skill or Rule base mode means performing tasks that have been "Human Factor" formatted.
Human Factor formatting removes the human error element in performing repetitive task. The opposite and non-preferred method of operating is"Knowledge" base.
Performing tasks in Knowledge base is dependent on the members work experience and high rate of repetition.
The disadvantage of this mode of operation is performing a tasks based solely on memory and not proven step by step procedures.
This mode of operation eliminates "Error Traps" and ensures the intended results of the tasks being performed.
Error Traps are the results of policy practices that are done incorrectly, poorly, and uneconomically.
Eliminating the internal Error Traps solidify your organization's financial stability.
The key to this Procedure Program, is that your organization is no longer solely dependent on highly experience staff members to operate at a stable and highly efficient modality.
The Organization Procedure Program will be your organization's SECRET WEAPON !! to funding awards.