Terminology
Types of Grants
Components of a Grant Application
Telling your Project's Story
Facts about CBI
100

The distinguishing factor between a grant and a cooperative agreement is the degree of government (state, federal, or local) participant or involvement during the grantee's actual startup and implementation or the proposed activities.

Grant / Cooperative Agreement

100

Grants to pay for expenses related to the expansion of existing programs or the development of new programs.

Program development

100

Concise, very short (often less than a page) summaries of a longer piece of work.

Executive summary or abstract

100

This section is about the virtual picture of your community - facts and statistics - not trivia, which belongs in the background section.

Description of Community

100
Legal Name of CBI

Capacity Builders, Inc.

200

A _____ is the organization or agency that receives your funding request and decides to fund it or reject it.

Grantor

200
You can use the funding to pay for a keynote speaker, traveling, printing, advertising, and taking care of facilities expenses.

Conference/Seminars

200

Estimation of revenue and expenses over a specified future period of time.

Budget
200

A statement written about the problem that the grant applicant will combat with the awarded funds

Statement of Need

200
What type of grant applicant is CBI?

501c3 

300

The eligible grant applicant designated to receive a grant award.

Grantee

300

Grants additional funds to your organization after you've already received an initial grant award from that same grantor.

Continuing support/continuation

300

is a systematic method for collecting, analyzing, and using information to answer questions about projects, policies and programs, particularly about their effectiveness and efficiency

Evaluation Plan

300

Specific, measurable, attainable, realistic, and timebound

SMART Objectives

300
Year CBI was founded

2007

400

Any government grant maker that awards grants with moneys that comes from congressional allocations, federal pass-through dollars to states and municipalities, or taxpayer dollars.

Public Sector Funder

400

You may use these funds for salaries, fringe benefits, travel, consultants, utilities, equipment, and other expenses necessary to support agency operations.

General/Operating Expenses

400

are those people who are essential to carrying out the work of a project, typically those responsible for the design, conduct and reporting of the research

Key Personnel

400

This will show when the objectives will happen and when the activities will start and end.

Timeline

400

Current Organizational Budget

5.3 M

500

A foundational or corporate grant maker that uses funds from investments, contributions, donations or grants to fund eligible grant applicants.

Private Sector Funder

500

Grants to improve your internal program operations as a whole (versus consulting on one specific program).

Technical (consulting) Assistance

500

is the plan of action that results from that process.

Program design

500

This statement will show who will report to whom and where there built-in assurances of administrative and financial staff to management plan.

Management Plan: Organizational structure/ Administration

500

CBI's Congressional District(s)

3

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