10 am or so and we're off to the Laundry
Good morning! This is where we are starting off today:Case Reviews
Safety Minutes
Grants
Resources
These are the things that our friend wants us to be working for our job as his assistant. I’ll have to find out my full title later when I remember to bring up our phone. The case reviews, safety minutes, and grants will all apply to St. Rose Center and the resources will be general. Basically, there I can read things then he wants me to summarize them so he can gain knowledge more easily. That would of course be in the field of developmental disabilities, and to a smaller degree probably mental illness. I believe he is thinking 5-6 hours a week, but it might be more and he is saying that … shoot how did he say that money? I think only $200 a month to start … so that he’d give me an extra $100 a paycheck. I think that will work fine for the first few, but will not be enough to cover grant writing. I will set the scale to be about then $16.67 per hour. I think that is fine … I make $21 something an hour, but will give him that much a break. I don’t think he wants to pay hour per hour though, because that would be too much a hassle.
I think that he’ll have to put case reviews on computer so that the other Q doesn’t know that I’m doing them. Safety minutes will get typed … I just have to follow his form. Resources I can develop my own form – and I should do that today while I’m at home and grants – will be an entire ball of its own.
Hmm, this seems to be a good, complete format … http://www.npguides.org/
Wait let’s make a list of appropriate links and then we’ll consider that for a couple hours a week, we need to be reading this information. A couple of hours lessons a day wouldn’t be bad, but we’d have to dedicate time … Maybe at least just an hour a day or 6-7 hours a week toward this goal, plus be doing the other three tasks. Case reviews and safety minutes need to be done monthly. Resources could be done daily or weekly. Grants we’ll have to develop.
DAILY REPORT: FROM ASSISTANT ANN JUNE 4, 2007:
Grant writing links (approximately 1.5 hours)
http://www.npguides.org/ Non-profit Guide to grant-writing tools for non-profit organizations. Excellent for building step-by-step grants through a guidance program.
http://www.proposalwriter.com/ Professional grant-writer offers lots of information particularly on government grants. She also is trying to sell her service. Offers some very good tools like a free proposal checklist and grant resources and home and internal – links.
http://grants.library.wisc.edu/organizations/proposalwebsites.html An excellent site by Wisconsin libraries providing links for grant writing that are very comprehensive.
http://www.managementhelp.org/fndrsng/np_raise/np_raise.htm#anchor975633 This site is fairly good … it offers information on both fundraising and grant writing through links to others. It has a very comprehensive list of topics particular to non-profit.
http://lone-eagles.com/granthelp.htm Good list of tips to review after having a basic understanding of grant skills, in addition some good links to other services that offer grant writing skills.
http://www.epa.gov/ogd/recipient/tips.htm This ties us back into the EPA who has a good basic set of tips which include components of grant making package … this might be a good place to start, because the information is limited – outlined.
http://12.46.245.173/pls/portal30/CATALOG.GRANT_PROPOSAL_DYN.show This is a good resource for developing and writing grant proposals to the government. It gives general good cues like neatness and stating the purpose at hand. Good in general terms.
http://chronicle.com/jobs/2003/06/2003062601c.htm This one gives a short list of myths and tips debunking the concerns of grant writing. This might be used to encourage one forward after gaining a modicum of grant writing knowledge … when we’re feeling down.
http://www.purdue.edu/envirosoft/grants/src/msieopen.htm This is the grant writing resource we had started before that allows you to practice writing as we learn. Not so comprehensive as some others, but practical and inviting and it gives examples.
http://www.powerhomebiz.com/vol121/grantwriter.htm This link is good if I want to look into becoming a grant writer … and it has resources to things grand writers should know such as teaching oneself, writing successfully, being professional, and other guides.
http://www.writing.ku.edu/instructors/docs/grants.shtml This is a shorter list of elements in writing a grant, but it is limited and without links. It’s a good summary to test our knowledge after learning from another resource.
http://healthlinks.washington.edu/rfs/gw/ This might be the place to start … it’s out-lay well by the University of Washington and it contains an excellent resource toward grant books that list as classics, foundations, government, by subject, and industry.
http://www.grantwritingusa.com/events/chil0707.html These people seem to offer a very good course and will be in Champaign, IL on July 23-24 (Ann’s vacation?) Tuition would cost $425 and we’d need 2-3 days hotel arrangements at hopefully Baymont Inn and Suites.
Ok, ok … back to usual here.
Now we are being silly … You are seeing a picture that we’ve added as a watermark to our writing because we love it so much. Actually you’ve seen it before with the work we were doing on that one apartment, but we’ve lightened it up a bit so we can use it without it interfering too much. We also added it as a background to Daily Report: From Assistant Ann. See SILLY!
The only difference is that with the email, we are using a dark brown print. We did a lot of fooling around with fonts, but came back to the Cambria – 12 pt. You are missing this in the blog, but in our “book” we’ll try to use the Cambria, we like it a lot.
Hmm, we better pause now for a minute. We’re thinking we have to wash clothes downstairs, at the laundry and to the bank. Anything else? Nope, don’t think so … let’s post and skedaddle.
posted by Ann Marie @ 6/04/2007 10:12:00 AM
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