How to fight the credit crunch or do more with less

Writing a winning ICT grant proposal – one hour version

Miles Maier

Lasa

London ICT Champion24 June 2010

Take-Aways

1. assess your ICT needs2. identify benefits3. identify objectives and outcomes4. costing the project5. Identify funders6. Top Tips

1. Assess Your ICT Needs

What is a health check? Benefits

EXERCISE 1: DIY Health Check Use the ICT Health Check worksheet to answer

questions about your own organisation Highlight one issue and discuss it with the group

1. Assess Your ICT Needs

Using the Managing ICT checklists

www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/healthchecklists

Inventorying Belarc Adviser, Spiceworks

2. Benefits and priorities

EXERCISE 2 – identify project benefits

better communication

increased collaboration

increased efficiency

improved service delivery

better tracking and decision making

3. Objectives

EXERCISE 3 - Making the business case

proposal – project description

objectives – what you are doing and why

outcomes – specific results on achieving objectives

outputs – goods/services produce

4. Costing your project

Exercise 4 – Costing ICT projects

What’s full cost recovery?www.fullcostrecovery.org.uk

What are realistic prices?www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk/calculatingtechnologybudget

5. Funding your project

List of 90 ICT funders – (www.icthub.org.uk/research)

Your local CVS, library or other infrastructure org

NCVO Funding Central (www.fundingcentral.org.uk) - free to use database, resources and funding alerts

Fit for Funding (www.fit4funding.org.uk) - useful information sheets and a monthly email newsletter

Funders Online Portal (www.efc.be) – free access to news and resources on European funding streams

GRANT finder UK (www.grantfinder.co.uk) - online database of charitable, gov’t and EU funds. Free at your local CVS

Funderfinder (www.funderfinder.org.uk) - excellent fact sheets on fundraising skills. Costs £185 to access the online GIN directory or FREE at your local CVS

Trust Funding (www.trustfunding.org.uk) - for professionals. Subscribe from £225

UK Fundraising (www.fundraising.co.uk) - aimed at professional fundraisers. Free newslette

5. Funding your project

6. Top Tips

Discounted software www.pugh.co.uk www.phoenixs.co.uk

Donated software/network hardware www.ctxchange.org

Reconditioned and recycled hardware www.ictknowledgebase.org.uk www.suppliersdirectory.org.uk

6. Top Tips

Aggregate the news – RSS

Collaborate Google Docs or Microsoft Office Live

Free video conferencing www.oovoo.com, www.skype.com

Arranging meetings – www.doodle.com

Free event management – www.eventbrite.com

Free surveys - www.surveymonkey.com

Workshop prepared by

Miles MaierLondon Region ICT Champion

www.lasa.org.uk/ictchampion

mmaier@lasa.org.uk

020 7426 4496