The Able Trust Regional Grant Workshop

1. The Able Trust Regional Grant Workshop Friday June 27, 2008 Tampa, Florida

2. Agenda

3. Are you walking in a Canyon? • Do you wonder where the funders are? • Does it feel like the funds are just out of reach? • Does the communication gulf feel this wide and deep?

4. Be A Desert Bloomer • Locate resources • Communicate with the found resources • Reliable • Accountable • Enthusiastic

5. Some Thoughts • No one resource will be The Answer • A Resource is only as good as the partnership developed. • Bad communication can harm a good Resource.

6. Resources

7. Communicating the Story JOIN – networking community groups TELL – your organizational story with enthusiasm! ASK – for support for what you do! SELL – the results, the successes, the impact in your community

9. With Resources found, what next? • How do you make the door swing open for your organization? By Operating the Communication Hinges

10. What do we have in common ? • Organization • Mission • To their community • To their Board of Directors • To the funders • Foundation • Mission • To their community • To their Board of Directors • To the funders Good Communication allows both sides to work together and fulfill their goals.

11. Collaborators on a Mission

12. What is Important to The Able Trust? • We were created to improve the employment opportunities for individuals with disabilities. • Consequently these are the proposals we are seeking. Tabitha receiving training on the computer system for guest entry at Universal Studios, Orlando

13. Proposal Qualities • Community need • Services to be provided: • Assessment • Skills Training • Placement • Follow-up No Matter What A Proposal should be:

14. AGENCY GRANT PROPOSAL TO THE ABLE TRUST Agency Name: State of Florida Charitable Registration # IRS Employer Identification Number: 501(c)(3)?: YES NO Mailing Address Physical Location where Services Provided Street: City: State: Florida; Zip Code: Florida; Zip Code: Executive Director’s Name: Phone Number: ext Fax: Email [print clearly]: Primary Project Contact: Phone Number: ext Fax: Email [print clearly]: Agency Website: Project Name: Disability Population Served in proposed project: circle/highlight one Developmental Disability Epilepsy Spinal Cord/Head Injury Mental Health Hearing Impairment Learning Disability Drug/Alcohol Dependency Visual Impairment Hearing Impairment Disability Neutral Other: List Program Area to be implemented in proposed project: circle/highlight one Competitive Employment Transition Employment Skills with Indirect Placement Promotion/Public Awareness Research Employment Skills with Direct Placement County/Counties to Benefit Most from the proposed project: Is Agency currently involved in ANY Litigation: YES NOIf Yes, attach an explanation page to the Cover Sheet Indicate how you learned of The Able Trust: circle/highlight one Radio – Magazine – Television – Newspaper – Internet – State Agency – School – Other (list): # of Persons proposed to be served during the project: # of Persons proposed to become employed during the project: Total Amount of Funds Requested of The Able Trust: Total Amount of Funds Projected to support the proposed project: Cost Per Person to become Employed: Signature & Date Executive Director Signature & Date Board Officer

15. The Heart – Sample from Central FL Epilepsy provider • Project Plan & Description: Our qualified Employment Coordinator will carry on the community based work placement/skills training program and add essential training portions to the program, which we have found to be necessary to increase self-sufficiency. This expanded program would begin July 16, 2006 so as not to overlap current funding and allow for the additional training programs that have been requested and delivered on a very limited basis. “Personal Financial Fitness” and Transportation Training are essential to increasing the employment rate for individuals with epilepsy and disabilities. EACF currently has programs addressing epilepsy education, medical care, and social service counseling and pre-GED and GED training. The proposed program extension would work in conjunction, compliment and enhance existing EACF programs. “Community Based Employment, Life Skills Training & Basic Financial Planning with Employment Placement for Continued Success for Persons with Epilepsy and Disabilities” will provide the following services to at least 110 clients in the coming year: Setting a Vocational Goal & Identifying Work Values • Personal Financial Needs and Basic Financial Planning/Budgeting Skills Training • Epilepsy/Disability and the Essential Duties of the job • Epilepsy/Disability Disclosure • Transportation to Work and Transportation Training • Resources for Identifying Employers, Job Skills Training, & Resume Writing • Interviewing, Follow-up and What Employers Want

16. Curriculum for this program in inclusive, but not limited to: • “Career Support Center Employment Workbook” – Epilepsy Foundation • “The Workbook-Study Guide for Job Seekers” – EFA • “Your Spending, Your Savings, Your Future – A Beginner’s Guide to Financial Readiness” – National Endowment for Financial Education • Steck-Vaughn GED Software and Workbooks • “How to Find and Keep a Job” – Job Search Video Series • Transportation Training on 1:1 with the Employment Coordinator/LYNX • Additional materials as needed on a participant basis. • This program will also utilize area Human Resource Directors in presentations to participants, successful community peers (employed individuals with epilepsy or other disabilities) to mentor and motivate participants in the program as well as making the most of existing agency resources and volunteers.

17. Our existing resource center will support the participants in using multi-media equipment (computer CDROM education, computer internet access with job seeking, job posting, resume posting and audio visual video training on employment issues). The Employment Coordinator will meet, and work, one on one with each participant based on their current job readiness, knowledge, skills and needs level while coordinating with the case managers regarding medical services, transportation needs and epilepsy education/prevention and psychological/mental health needs. • The Coordinator will also have the responsibility for job creation by establishing working relationships with area employers. EACF will provide continued employee/employer assistance during job placement to ensure successful placement. Upon completion of this program EACF will continue to support both the employee/employer to continue to ensure successful employment as long as requested. • Targeted individuals for this program would include, but not limited to: • Current and future clients of EACF’s existing programs, referrals from area physicians and service providers and disabled individuals seeking employment skills training and transportation training; • Those who lack previous work experience and the confidence to work due to their disability; • Those that have demonstrated previously the inability to retain a job for a reasonable period of time due to their disability;

19. Red Flag Distribution? • One thing on the cover sheet and differently in the project plan and description –RED FLAG • List one amount on the cover then a different amount of funds in the budget – RED FLAG • The budget doesn’t add up – RED FLAG • Not actually using the words employment, job or career – RED FLAG • Not submitting the required supplemental material – RED FLAG • Responding to questions with just one sentence when it is not a yes/no answer– RED FLAG

21. The Able Trust Process • No Deadlines • Next Agenda placement • 6 page proposal • Supplemental • Materials

22. Knowledge Center • Demystifying the Grant Process • Interviews with successful grantees • Sample Proposals • This presentation • www.abletrust.org Click on Knowledge Center

23. Contact me with Questions • Guenevere Crum The Able Trust 106 E. College Ave Suite 820 Tallahassee, FL 32301 888-838-2253 Tollfree 850-224-4493 guenevere@abletrust.org

24. The Board of Director Perspective • EladioAmores • A Director of The Able Trust since 2001 • A founding member of the Florida Business Leadership Network