Assignment 1: Discussion-Your Most Important Budget Asset
The grant application process is all about money. Without money to accomplish your public health intervention, your plans are nothing but words on a piece of paper. The grant application process is all about convincing a person or entity to give you money to support your plan. Your primary goal in the budgeting process is to make a convincing argument that the money will be spent well.
There are many elements that make up a budget. Use the Internet, research grant budgets. Based on your research, respond to the following:
- Which element will generally make up the bulk of grant funds you will receive and why (particularly in a grant that is a multi-year award)? Explain your answer with the help of examples.
Give reasons in support of your responses. Be sure to cite any relevant resources.Write your initial response in approximately 300 words. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.
Assignment 2: Course Project-Identifying the Approach
Public Health Issue: HIV/STD Grant Opportunity
A lot of thought goes into the grant application process before the actual decision is made to pursue the submission of a grant. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your approach to the grant application process. Consider the approach you will utilize and address the following:
- Describe how you will define your chosen public health issue and how you think you will prepare for the grant application process. Your paper should include the following sections:
- Introduction: Define your chosen public health issue.
- Plan: Identify how you intend to plan your strategy.
- Prepare: Identify how you intend to prepare the necessary elements of your grant application.
- Partners: Identify potential partners that you would like to work with in developing this grant application.
- Conclusion: Summarize your approach as identified above.
- References: List all references used to support your choice.
Be sure to include the following in your assignment:
- A title page
- Abstract
- References page(s)
Write a 3-5-page report in Word format. Apply APA standards to citation of sources.