Description
December marks the month when several federal agencies (i.e., SAMHSA, HRSA, CDC) have forecasted that grant requests for proposals will be released.
One of the challenges grant-seeking organizations encounter is short timeframes to respond to time-sensitive competitive grant funding opportunities. Often the timeline to respond to competitive grants may range from four to eight weeks from the time of the release of the Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) to the deadline for application submission.
- In this Provider Learning Collaborative, SAE expert Dr. Susan M. Bowler breaks down the steps necessary to be “grant ready” as a potential federal grantee;
- We focus on identifying funding opportunities prior to their formal NOFA/FOA release to conduct strong pre-planning and application design;
- We also walk through common elements of success and pitfalls of federal grant applications.
If you are new or relatively new to grant seeking, applying for federal grants, or are looking to fine-tune your federal grant-seeking process to determine which aspects you can improve to increase your success percentage of funded grant applications, this conversation is for you!
Learning Objectives
How to identify potential federal grant opportunities prior to a NOFA/FOA being released to allow for pre-planning; How to structure and conduct your pre-planning and application development process; How to be “grant ready” to be a federal grantee; Understanding the common elements of competitive federal grant applications; and Understanding the common weak points of federal grant applications.
BIOS
Rhonda Bohs, Ph.D., has over 25 years of experience in conducting research and program evaluation including serving as the lead evaluator for multiple SAMHSA-funded initiatives. Additionally, Dr. Bohs has served as Site Investigator for activities in the NIDA Clinical Trials Network and as Co-Principal Investigator on a P20 Research Center grant in collaboration with Florida International University and funded through the National Center on Minority Health Disparities.
Dr. Bohs received her M.S. degree in Research and Ph.D. in Applied Experimental Psychology with an emphasis in Social Psychology from Saint Louis University. She has conducted research and program evaluation in health disparities, as well as program evaluation in hospital, community mental health centers, health departments, community based organizations and business settings. Throughout her career, Dr. Bohs has developed an expertise in implementing and evaluating programs targeting special populations, hard‑to‑reach populations, and in developing and implementing systems of care strategies within community based organizations and integrating behavioral and primary health service delivery systems.
Dr. Bohs is also SAE’s Director of Operations.
Susan M. Bowler, Ph.D., has extensive experience in policy/program development and implementation in state child welfare, juvenile justice and children’s mental health agencies. She was the Project Director and Principal Investigator on three Children’s Mental Health (System of Care) Initiatives targeting children under 21 with serious emotional disturbances. Dr Bowler has led strategic processes that integrated services across child welfare, children’s behavioral health, and juvenile justice for the highest risk children and adolescents and their families. Most recently, Dr. Bowler has been a leader in system wide reform in the state of Rhode Island as they seek to fully integrate economic development, employment support, and clinical/social services in a single plan to assist the highest risk youth to succeed in the market economy.
