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PROPOSAL PLANNING AND STRATEGIES

IDENTIFYING PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SOURCES OF SUPPORT

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The Community Foundation of Abilene500 Chestnut, Suite 1509PO Box 1001Abilene, TX 79604

Contact: Nancy E. Jones, PresidentFAX: 915-676-4206Email: cfa@abilene.comhttp://www.abilene.com/communityfoundation

About FundsGiving in Abilene, TX. Deadlines final Friday of February and September. Application guidelines for submitting a proposal.

Coastal Bend Community FoundationThe Six Hundred Building600 Leopard Street, Suite 1716Corpus Christi, TX 78473

Telephone: 361-882-9745Contact: Jim Moloney, Executive DirectorFAX: 361-882-2865Email: jmoloney@cbcfoundation.orghttp://www.cbcfoundation.org

About FundsGiving in Arkansas, Bee, Jim Wells, Kleberg, Nueces, Refugio, and San Patricio counties, TX.Application form required. Reviews in February, May, August, and November.

South Texas Charitable FoundationPO Box 2549Victoria, TX 77902

Telephone: 361-573-4383Contact: Rayford L. Keller, Secretary Treasurer

About FundsGiving in South Texas. Application form not required. High grant $250,000.

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- Proposal Planning and Strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1

- Identifying Public and Private Sources of Support . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3

- Your Initial Proposal: A Letter of Inquiry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6

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- Federal Funding Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9

- Federally Funded State Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12

- Foundation Sources That Fund Nationally . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

- State-Specific Funding Sources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

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Loeb FoundationC/O Lebanon Citizens National BankPO Box 59Lebanon, OH 45036-0059

Telephone: 513-932-1414Contact: B. H. Wright, Jr. TreasurerFAX: 513-932-1492Email: bwright@lcnb.com

About FundsGiving only in Warren County, Ohio. Will fund equipment. Must get proposal in before Septembereach year when the Board meets.

Whalley Charitable Trust1210 Graham AvenueWindber, PA 15963

Telephone: 814-467-4000Contact: David Klementik, Treasurer

About FundsGiving in Pennsylvania. Application form not required. High grant $300,000.

SunTrust Banks of Tennessee FoundationC/O SunTrust Bank, Nashville, N. A., Trust DepartmentPO Box 305110Nashville, TN 37230-5110

Telephone: 615-748-4109Contact: Pam Utley

About FundsGiving in Tennessee. Application form not required. High grant $186,849.

The James M. Collins Foundation8115 Preston Road, Suite 680Dallas, TX 75225

Contact: Dorothy Collins, President

About FundsGiving in Texas. Initial approach is a letter. High grant $236,660.

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The following suggestions for seeking support for the purchase of Laerdal equipment areintended primarily for the benefit of persons in educational institutions and hospitals offering

various kinds of training programs in the areas of Emergency Medical Treatment (EMT). Weassume that such persons may not be experienced proposal writers and will therefore appreciatesome general comments not only about content but also about strategies. Experienced applicantsmay also derive some benefit from these suggestions, especially if they occasionally suffer fromattacks of “writer's block.”

Proposal Planning and Strategies: Some General Considerations

First, it is necessary to emphasize the obvious: follow the sponsor’s guidelines to the letter. This pertainsto length, format, requirements for assurances and compliances, date of submission, organization,headings, and supplementary materials. Pay attention, as well, to deadlines, authorized signatures,supplementary materials, letters of support from community agencies and/or affected constituencies,and the like. Integrate your planning to obtain these so that your proposal, with all the backupmaterials, arrives on the sponsor’s desk in time and with the appropriate authorizations. That maymean that a quite formal production schedule has to be developed and maintained.

The draft has to be prepared in accordance with the requirements for headings, sequence, and so on,but you may find it easier to adapt material to those requirements than to try to compose somethingnew just for the headings the sponsor wants. For instance, if you haven’t thought about your “goalsand objectives” (a phrase many sponsors expect you to use) in quite those terms, ask yourself what itis, exactly, you want to accomplish. Try to answer that question quantitatively: how many morepeople you want to train in your various EMT programs, how many more instructors you’ll have tohire, how many more items of equipment you’ll need, etc. The chances are that your sponsor willalso want you to address “evaluation” or “assessment” later in the proposal. Those terms have to dowith how you’ll know whether you’ve used the sponsor’s money to good effect – that is, successfully.That should be answered quantitatively as well, with numbers and percentages. So if you have statedyour objectives quantitatively – for instance, “to increase the number of people we can certify astrained in CPR by 15% within one year, from 65 to 75” – you will have established a clear objectivewhose achievement can be evaluated very easily.

All proposals are essentially intended to help make the case for your grant, and there are generallyclear opportunities to do so. Headings called “Background” or “Significance” or sometimes, moreplainly, “Need” are examples of those opportunities. Tell your reader as persuasively as you can, withthe most striking evidence you have, what a good job you’re doing – and how much better you coulddo it (how much more of the need you could meet!) if you had the resources, the staff and theequipment that you want to acquire with the sponsor's support. Again, the evidence should bequantitative, not anecdotal.

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The Cowles Charitable TrustPO Box 219Rumson, NJ 07760

Telephone: 732-936-9826Contact: Gardner Cowles, III, President

About FundsGiving all along Eastern Seaboard with emphasis in New York and Florida. Application guidelines for submission of proposal. Deadlines are December 1st, March 1st, June 1st, and September 1st. High grant $47,240.

The Clark Foundation1 Rockefeller Plaza, 31st FloorNew York, NY 10020

Telephone: 212-977-6900Contact: Charles H. Hamilton, Executive Director

About FundsGiving in upstate New York and New York City. Application reviews in October and May.Application guidelines for submitting proposal. High grant $1,000,000.

Allyn Foundation, Inc.PO Box 22Skaneateles, NY 13152

Contact: Meg M. O’Connell

About FundsGiving in Onondaga and Cayuga counties, New York. Application form required. High grant $85,000.

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Your plan of work – how you’ll proceed, step by step, from the beginning to the end of the grantperiod – is usually called “Procedures” or “Methods.” Training programs can be straightforward,operated in accordance with tried-and-true educational objectives, more or less standardized byaccreditation and similar means. Or they might be innovative, experimental, incorporating new ideas,new combinations, new equipment. Or they might combine some of the old with a little of the newin circumstances that have changed over time. That, in fact, is a question you should consider earlyon: has your patient population changed in some key demographic characteristics? Are your traineesbringing the same kind of preparation, the same set of skills, to your program as did the people youwere training six or eight or ten years ago? If not, what should you do now that you haven't donebefore? Don’t assume that your grant readers are familiar with your situation simply because you havebeen getting their support for many years. If the situation is changing, you may wish to change aspectsof your program, and that needs to be explained clearly and convincingly.

In some instances, it may be possible to combine the training of EMT personnel with research,perhaps conducted by medical schools, engineering colleges, companies, or other organizations, onvarious techniques still considered experimental. Medical progress, and advances in health caregenerally, appear to depend more and more heavily on advances in engineering, and this may be evenmore apparent in Emergency Medical Treatment than in some other medical fields. Much of theprogress being made has to do with obtaining more information about the patient’s condition moreaccurately and much more rapidly than could be imagined even only a generation ago. The advancesin telemedicine would be such an example. It seems obvious that the avalanche and accessibility ofsuch information has a great number of immediate implications for EMT training programs. We willreturn to this thought in the next section.

To sum up: planning proposals means to think about what has to be presented in what order towhom – and how. Unless you are assured of getting the money you need from the sponsor you intendto approach, it is safe to assume that your proposal will be evaluated competitively, and that youshould therefore make the strongest case you can. Leaving yourself time for last-minute revisions isalways advisable, but rarely enough. You should also leave enough time for your editor, a friendly andconstructive critic, to suggest improvements you haven’t thought of. The production schedule you’regoing to draw up should include time for that kind of review and revision.

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Adventist Community Services12501 Old Columbia PikeSilver Spring, MD 20904

About FundsGiving in Colorado, Maryland, Missouri, and Texas. High grant $619,322.

Granger FoundationPO Box 22187Lansing, MI 48909-2187Telephone: 517-393-1670

Contact: Alton L. Granger, TreasurerFAX: 517-393-0901

About FundsGiving in Michigan. Application form required. High grant $700,000.

A. J. Schwartze Community FoundationC/O The Central Trust Bank238 MadisonJefferson City, MO 65101-3254

Telephone: 573-634-1221Contact: Michael W. Prenger, Trust Officer, The Central Trust Bank

About FundsGiving only in Missouri. Provides general and operating support. High grant $5,000.

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Identifying Public and Private Sources of Support

The bulk of the money available for EMT training programs comes from funds made available by theCarl D. Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act of 1998, known colloquially as “Perkinsmoney” after the Senator who was the primary author of the federal legislation (Public Law 105-332).This is known as “formula money”: the U.S. Department of Education distributes the federal moneyto the states, whose departments of education or public instruction – titles vary – in turnaward the money to local districts and applicants in accordance with their own procedures andrequirements. These entail long and complicated applications, and the EMT administrators usuallysimply supply the requisite data to district administrative offices for incorporation in the many tablesand narrative sections comprising such proposals. But to do so requires EMT administrators to keepcareful records of the kind already described. The kind of data normally compiled for accreditationreports, sometimes known as “core indicators of performance,” are representative of the informationrequired in this context as well.

Information about the federal role is available from the U.S. Department of Education’s Office ofVocational and Adult Education, 330 C Street, SW Room 4090, Washington, D.C. 20202(dvte@inet.ed.gov). Information about your state’s requirements is available from your statedepartment of education. Be alert to opportunities provided in various parts of the legislation.Section 114 of the Perkins Act provides support for the National Center for Research, i.e., NationalVocational Education Research, which supports National Centers for Career and Technical Educationthrough awards for activities designed to improve the practice of vocational education. Eligibleapplicants include universities or a consortium of universities and a public or private nonprofitorganization: and it is that phrase that opens the door to participation by community colleges and/or hospitals.

You should be familiar with at least three sources of information – in addition to whatever else youcan find on the Web – about opportunities for public support of your EMT programs: (1) the Catalogof Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA); (2) the Federal Register, which announces grants available;and (3) the Commerce Business Daily, which announces contract competitions. Sometimes federalagencies other than the Department of Education will consider requests for support of activities thatmay involve the use of EMT equipment, and such opportunities are made known through thesepublications. Of particular interest may be the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality(AHRQ), a division of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Its mission is to support,conduct, and disseminate the results of research that improves access to care and the outcomes,quality, cost, and utilization of health care services.

Private support for the acquisition of equipment needed for EMT programs includes grants fromfoundations, corporations, professional associations, and occasionally private philanthropists. Amongthe latter may be medical practitioners, corporations, or societies that, because of their concern forpatients’ safety, would consider applications submitted by local EMT programs. The geographiclocation of some of the patrons of the American Patient Safety Foundation is given in the APSF's Website, where these donors are identified by level of contribution. (See the last section for Web addresses.)

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The Dibner Fund, Inc.44 Old Ridgefield RoadPO Box 7575Wilton, CT 06897

Telephone: 203-761-9904Contact: Marci B. Sternheim, PhD, Executive DirectorFAX: 203-761-9989Email: dibnerfund@worldnet.att.net

About FundsGiving in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York. Application guidelines for submission. High grant $1,673,350.

Clipper Ship Foundation, Inc.C/O Grants Management Associates77 Summer Street, 8th FloorBoston, MA 02110

Telephone: 617-426-7172Contact: Anna Karisson, Foundation AssistantFAX: 167-426-5441Email: ncarter@grantsmangement.comhttp://www.agmconnect.org/clipper1.html

About FundsGiving in Massachusetts. Application form required. High grant $250,000.

GEICO Philanthropic FoundationC/O GEICO Corporation5260 Western AvenueChevy Chase, MD 20815

Telephone: 301-986-3802Contact: David L. Schindler, Chairman

About FundsGiving in San Diego, CA; Washington, DC; Macon, GA; New York State; and Dallas, TX.Initial approach in form of letter. High grant $256,468.

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The following private foundations will consider support of EMT equipment and training programs:

Arizona: The Flinn Foundation

California: California Community FoundationThe California EndowmentThe Walt Disney Company FoundationEvelyn and Walter Haas, Jr., FundMcCabe Foundation

Delaware: Crystal TrustLongwood Foundation, Inc.Raskob Foundation for Catholic Activities, Inc.

Florida: Edyth Bush Charitable Foundation, Inc.The Chatlos FoundationThe Dr. P. Phillips Foundation

Georgia: The UPS FoundationRobert W. Woodruff Foundation, Inc.

Illinois: Robert R. McCormick Tribune FoundationSamuel Zell Foundation

Nevada: The Cord FoundationDonald W. Reynolds Foundation

New York: The Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation, Inc.The Freeman FoundationThe Starr Foundation

North Carolina: Kate B. Reynolds Charitable TrustThe Winston-Salem Foundation

Pennsylvania: The Annenberg FoundationThe Pew Charitable Trusts

Texas: Exxon/Mobil FoundationThe Ewing Halsell FoundationHoblitzelle FoundationAlbert & Bessie Mae Kronkosky Charitable FoundationThe Meadows Foundation, Inc.Swalm Foundation

Wisconsin: Helen Bader Foundation, Inc.

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The David and Lucille Packard Foundation300 2nd St., Ste. 200Los Altos, CA 94022

Telephone: (650) 948-7658Contact: Prog. Off. of area of interesthttp://www.packfound.org

About FundsSupports equipment purchases. Service area should be larger than one community.

Newman’s Own Foundation, Inc.246 Post Rd. E.Westport, CT 06880-3615

Contact: Joan M. Williamshttp://www.newmansown.com

About FundsGiving primarily for children’s health and services but can fund any health activity.

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A few suggestions for preparing a proposal to a foundation may be helpful. Before you actuallysubmit the proposal, study the foundation's latest annual report and write a letter asking if a formalproposal would be appropriate. Summarize the plan or project briefly. This letter is usuallyaddressed to the foundation's executive director or secretary, and should enclose a copy of yourorganization’s tax exemption letter from the Internal Revenue Service. (See the next section, YourInitial Proposal: A Letter of Inquiry). If you receive an encouraging reply, prepare your proposal exactlyas requested by the foundation for submission by the time indicated. Specific information is usuallyfound in the foundation's annual reports or, sometimes, in a separate brochure.

Most foundations require the applicant to submit the following:

1. Basic facts about your organization: (purpose, date of establishment, administrative officers andtrustees, overall budget, program, accomplishments), including reasons why you are especially wellqualified to carry out the activity for which you are requesting support.

2. The proposal itself explained in clear, concise, simple language, defining its goal, scope, timeschedule, and need for support.

3. Proposed financing of the project, including a detailed budget, indicating annual financial needs ifthe project is to extend over several years; names and addresses of other contributors, withamounts, and any other sources from which support has been, or will be, requested.

4. Evidence, if possible, that no other persons or organizations, public or private, are active in similaror related programs in the area concerned.

5. Names and addresses of informed persons not associated with the applicant who may be consultedon the project.

6. A brief review of any previous contact your organization has had with this foundation.

Corporations may be approached similarly. But just as foundations often restrict their support toparticular geographic areas and/or segments of the overall population, many corporations restrict theircharitable support to areas in which they have plants, outlets, or other business centers. Again, it isessential to study your prospect’s materials – reports, brochures, guidelines, website – before decidingto embark on solicitation of support.

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IntroductionMost Foundations and Corporations fund in their own State or community; therefore, there arefew organizations who might fund Emergency Medical Services or Fire Services on a National level.These groups would fund efforts of a broader scope than service to one community.

Federal American Airlines FoundationPO Box 619616, M. D. 5656Dallas, TX 75261-9616

Telephone: 817-967-3540Contact: Timothy J. Doke, Secretary

Deadline for transmittal of applications: No set deadline but applications should be received beforefall budgeting process.

About FundsAmerican Airlines Foundation gives primarily where American Airlines operates a hub or a majorfacility and/or employee base. There are application guidelines. High grant was $200,000, low was$50. The AAF is interested in disaster preparedness so it is important to stress how the device wouldmake one prepared to provide better and safer services.

W. K. Kellogg Foundation1 Michigan Ave. E.Battle Creek, MI 49017-4058

Telephone: (616) 968-1611Contact: Supervisor of Proposal ProcessingFAX: (616) 968-0413http://www.wkkf.org

About FundsProposals must conform to specified program priorities. Application form not required. Initial approach:Pre-proposal letter (1 to 2 pages) or online application. Copies of proposal: 1. Board meeting date(s):Monthly. The proposal should be for a wider program than just a local community to attract Kellogg.

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Your Initial Proposal: A Letter of Inquiry

Minnetonka Community CollegeDivision of Allied Health Programs

Ms. M. Kate MaddoxVice President, Programs & OperationsThe Multiplex Foundation, Suite 340One Hundred Multiplex BoulevardMinneapolis, MN xxxxx-yyyy

Dear Ms. Maddox:

We are writing to inquire whether the Multiplex Foundation, long known for its concerns aboutproper patient care in a variety of settings, would consider a formal request for support of our EMTprograms, specifically for the acquisition of a number of items of equipment to replace and/orsupplement our existing stock. In particular, our Laerdal SimMan, used by students in all ourprograms (EMS, Nursing, Paramedical, Surgical-Technical, and Nurses’ Aides) eight hours per day,is used with VHS technology, requiring our media people to adapt our existing VHS equipmentand to monitor and maintain its operation for maximum utility. We would much prefer to useDVD as the better and ultimately much more effective technology. We hope, as well, to acquirethe new Laerdal manikin for use in pediatrics when it becomes available next year, but this too willbe most useful with DVD technology.

You may know that ours is by far the largest EMT training program in the metropolitanMinneapolis area, with a total of approximately 150 students enrolled annually in our variousprograms. Our graduates are much in demand at area hospitals, clinics, emergency services, and inprivate practice, and we participate in a number of programs supported by the State with fundsfrom the federal Perkins Vocational and Technical Education Act. This will assure you that we areregularly reviewed and accredited by all appropriate agencies.

We would appreciate an opportunity to discuss our needs with you personally at any timeconvenient for you, or, if you prefer, to submit any additional information you might like to reviewprior to such a meeting. Our IRS letter certifying our 501.c (3) status is enclosed for yourconvenience.

We look forward to hearing from you.

Sincerely,

Alice P. Crawford, R.N., M.Ed.Director, Division of Allied Health Programs

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State Domestic Preparedness Equipment Support ProgramCFDA: 16.007Office of Justice Programs, Department of JusticeApplicants are state and local governments.

Office of Justice ProgramsDepartment of Justice810 7th Street, NWWashington, DC 20531

Telephone: 202-305-9887http://www.usdoj.gov

About FundsFunds may be used to procure equipment subsequent to the findings that are developed in the statewide threat and needs assessment. Grant funds must be used to equip fire and emergency medical services, law enforcement agencies and hazardous materials units to respond to a Weapons of Mass Destructionterrorist incident.

State Rural Hospital Flexibility ProgramCFDA: 93.241Contact your Regional Administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration to see about funding.

Office of Rural Health PolicyHealth Resources and Services Administration5600 Fishers Lane, Room 9A-55Rockville, MD 20857

Telephone: 301-443-0835Contact: Forrest Calico, MD, Health Systems Advisorhttp://www.ruralhealth.hrsa.gov

About FundsTo help states work with rural communities and hospitals to improve emergency medical services andimprove quality, service and organizational performance.

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Additional Help

Additional information can be found at the following websites:

Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)www.ahcpr.gov

Anesthesia Patient Safety Foundation (APSF)www.gasnet.org/societies/apsf/index/html

Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA)www.cfda.gov/public/viewprog

Federal Registerwww.tgci.com/fedrgtxt/02cn0628.htmlSee also: www.ed.gov/legislation/FedRegister/other

National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF)www.npsf.org

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State Government Funding Possibilities

IntroductionMany Federal programs are pass-through (some are Formula) programs. This means the Federalgovernment allocates funds to the States who then control how money is spent. We have includedsome of these programs from the Federal government to State governments in this section of thesource listings. For the pass-through grants you would have to contact the State agency todetermine what funding is available.

View a Full Description of The Programs Listed BelowTo view the programs below, go to http://www.cfda.gov and click in the blue box on “FindAssistance Programs.” Where it says “Go Directly to Program Number,” enter the CFDA Numberlisted under the program title.

Readiness, Response and Recovery Directorate, Federal EmergencyManagement AgencyCFDA: 83.552

Emergency Management Performance GrantsCheck with your local FEMA Office to see if there are funds for support through grants for localefforts. It is up to each state to allocate funds from the Federal Government under this program.

About FundsTo develop comprehensive emergency management at State and local levels and to improve emergencyplanning, preparedness, mitigation, response and recovery capabilities. To be prepared you have to befully trained and versant in tactics to save lives.

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Indian Community Fire ProtectionCFDA 15.301Bureau of Indian Affairs1849 “C” Street, NWMS-4660 MIBWashington, DC 20240

Telephone: 202-208-3463Contact: Director, Office of Tribal Servicehttp://www.doi.gov/bia/ots/otshome.htm or http://www.doi.gov/bureau-indian-affairs.html

About FundsFunds may be used to support staff, train volunteer firefighters and purchase additional equipment.Awards range from $200 to $138,000.

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Federal Funding Sources

IntroductionFederal sources are listed below. Many Federal programs are pass-through (some are Formula)programs. This means the Federal government allocates funds to the States who then control howmoney is spent. We have included some of these programs from the Federal government to Stategovernments in this listing. For the pass-through grants you would have to contact the State agencyto determine what funding is available.

View a Full Description of the Programs Listed BelowTo view the programs below, go to http://www.cfda.gov and click in the Blue Box on FindAssistance Programs. Where it says “Go Directly to Program Number,” enter the CFDA Numberlisted under the program title.

Federal Emergency Management AgencyCFDA: None ListedAssistance to Firefighters Grant ProgramUS Fire Administration (USFA), Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)FEMARoom 840, 500 C Street, SWWashington, DC 20472

Telephone: 1-866-274-0960Contact: Brian Cowan, Director, Grants Program OfficeEmail rules@fema.govhttp://www.usfa.fema.gov/grants

Deadline for transmittal of applications: Applications are usually announced in February and due in early April.

About FundsThis funding is relatively unrestricted in the activities and equipment it will fund. The proposalnarrative consists mainly of a thorough budget justification. Various purposes have budgetary limits. If an award is $300,000 the recipient organization must stand an audit.

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Improving EMS/Trauma Care in Rural AreasCFDA: 93.952Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human ServicesGet an application kit by writing: Grants Management Officer, Maternal and Child Health Bureau,Health Resources and Services AdministrationParklawn Building, Room 18-12

5600 Fishers LaneRockville, MD 20857

Telephone: 301-443-0324Contact: Richard J. Smith, III M.S., Chief, Injury/EMS Branchhttp://www.mchb.hrsa.gov

About FundsFunds are to be used for…(2) developing model curricula for training emergency medical servicespersonnel, including first responders, emergency medical technicians, emergency nurses and physicians,and paramedics. Grants are made to public and private nonprofit entities for the purpose of carryingout demonstration projects to improve the quality of EMS in Rural Areas.

Rural Health Outreach and Rural Network Development ProgramCFDA 93.912Health Resources and Services Administration, Department of Health and Human ServicesApplication kits can be obtained by writing HRSA Grants Application Center, 1815 North FortMyer Drive, Suite 300, Arlington, Virginia 22209 or by calling toll-free 1-877-477-2123.Room 9A-55, Parklawn Building

5600 Fishers LaneRockville, MD 20857

Telephone: 301-443-7529Contact: Ms. Eileen Holloran, Grant Programs Coordinator, Office of Rural Health Policy, Health Resources and Services Administrationhttp://www.hrsa.gov/oa.html

About FundsFunding ranges from $50,000 to $200,000. Funded projects include efforts to provide primary careservices in rural areas, including emergency medical services and preventive health services. Objectivesare to expand access to, coordinate, restrain the cost of, and improve quality of essential health services,including preventive and emergency services in rural areas.