11 Keys To Developing A Grant Project

By Denise Schlegel
Police1

When you need new approaches to your crime, expanded strategies, or any other tool or technology which needs to be supplemented by a grant, you need to begin that plan before you try to create an application for funding. The best practices below will help to assure that you have completed the planning for a fundable, justifiable, measureable, and successful grant project.

1. You must start from scratch. A competitive, fundable grant application does not begin when you find a grant application or funding notice. The funding may be of interest to your department or agency but the grant project must already be planned well in advance. Grant funding requires serious and careful strategic planning. It must fit into your “larger plan” for your police department. It must also align with the strategic plans of your state and align with the current priorities of the funding source.

2. Begin with a plan: Your department or agency must have a strategic plan. Without a sound plan you have no way to know where you are going, what you need, and what is missing to accomplish the mission and purpose of the department. You have no way to understand the policing needs of your community. You would have no way to understand what policing strategies, personnel, tools and technology you need to address the policing needs of your community.

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