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Public Safety Grants: Getting Started

If your agency is flush with funding dollars, you can stop reading now. However, if your agency faces the challenge of shrinking budgets coupled with increased responsibilities, the subject of grants and other supplemental funding is probably of interest for you. Now is the perfect time to start identifying opportunities for the next budget cycle. Finding a grant for which your agency is eligible and that also meets your needs can be one of the most difficult steps in your funding process. The following outlines some key tips on how to get started.   

 

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12 Tips to Make 2012 Your Year for Public Safety Grants

Did you apply for grants in 2011? Was it another year where you thought about applying for grants, but found it too daunting? Did you apply and win, or did that application get a "better luck next time" letter? No matter what your previous years for grants have been like, 2012 is a new year and a blank slate. With a new year comes new opportunities for this to be the year your agency lands the grant funding it needs for essential training, equipment and programs. Here are 12 tips to make 2012 your year for public safety grants... More...

 

 

The Grants Ballgame: You Can’t Win, If You Don’t Play

Many departments, and particularly volunteer departments, fight a continuous and ongoing battle in funding their existence... More...

 

 

Grant Strategy: Gaining Buy-In from Administration

One of the most frustrating problems, for any public safety grant writer in trying to establish a proper grants strategy in their agency, is to gain the consensus or “buy-in” needed from our administrators that hold the check books. My experience has shown that this is predominantly a problem of the administrators relying on preconceived, outdated information or myths in regards to the current arena of grants. More...

 

 

TASER Grant News

New Economy = New Grant Strategies Needed

As we move forward with this “new” economy most of us have already realized that our budgets are no longer holding to the “status quo”. Money that was routinely part of your operations budgets are no longer safe from the swing of the budget axe as we are being asked to do more, with less. One of the first places for that to occur is in acquiring new or upgrading of older equipment. This economic “reality check” is hitting home for many of us as we realize that this is not a short term problem but is going to be a long haul back to prosperity.

 

More and more departments are turning to the grant programs in an attempt to make up for these shortfalls in budgetary resources and with the increased number of applications the competition for those shrinking dollars grows exponentially as well. Let us not forget that the Federal budget axe is also swinging at our traditional funding sources and although the grant programs are still healthy, they are dwindling as our country seeks to survive and emerge intact from this economic crisis.  More...

 

 

Continuing Resolution Slowing Grant Award Process

On September 29th, Congress passed a Continuing Resolution to fund the Federal Government through December 3rd. President Obama signed it into Public Law on September 30th (P.L. 111-242). Under the Continuing Resolution, programs are not to start new projects.

 

Up until this date, a flurry of activity had been occurring in September in several major federal grant programs. Awards had been announced for the Solving Cold Cases through DNA analysis program for law enforcement and the Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG). More...

 

 

Out with the Old, In with the New!

Well folks, it’s been a record long hot summer for many of us and fall is just starting to put a welcome little coolness in the morning air again. I am sure many of you already are “out of funding” as 2009-2010 Fiscal Year winds down. I am also quite sure many of you are being asked to tighten that belt even further for the upcoming fiscal year since it appears there is still no light at the end of the recession tunnel we are in. Many of you have already been tightening that belt to the point that you are feeling almost “anorexic” with all the proposed cuts you are being asked to make for Fiscal Year 2010-2011.  More...

 

 

How to Convince City Hall: Professional Grant Writing Training Is Worth Every Penny!

You Get What You Pay For


There are two old sayings that state, "You get what you pay for" and "you have to spend a little money, to make a lot of money". These statements ring especially true in grant writing. The value of formal training and professional instruction in grant writing cannot be emphasized enough. So how do you convince your governing bodies and administrative officials that grant training is a wise worthwhile investment of your limited training dollars?without the money it needs for equipment and training? Here's what you can do to survive these tough economic times. More...

 

 

How to Stretch Budget Dollars through Successful Grant Writing

Has the current economic crisis had a negative impact on your department? Are you visiting First Responder Grants because the "budget axe" has left your department without the money it needs for equipment and training? Here's what you can do to survive these tough economic times.  More...

 

 

Training Requirements for Fire Act Grants

Training is becoming an increasingly stronger requirement for receiving a grant award. The following language appeared in the Official Program Guidance for the Assistance to Firefighter’s Grant in 2008:  More...