e-Grants and your 2013-14 AmeriCorps State application

1. e-Grants and your 2013-14 AmeriCorps State application Office on Volunteerism and Community Service February 7, 2013

2. Prior to Creating an ApplicationCreate an e-Grants Account

3. Info that you will need shows on the left

4. Get a DUNS Number, Register for SAM • Apply for DUNS number • Register for SAM

5. Creating an Application in e-Grants • After you have created account and logged in….

6. Select “New”

7. Under Program Area, select AmeriCorps, and then “Go”

8. Select Commission AmeriCorps State FY 2013

9. Choose a State: Virginia Select Prime Application ID 13AC147464 Next

10. Provide all required Applicant Information (indicated by *)

11. Application Info: Areas affected by program • Start date of either August 15 or Sept. 1 2013 • End date is at 3 year period exactly Other, remain checked as no (N/A)

12. Narratives: Enter text in appropriate fields Top 4 completed by all applicants (Exec. Summary, Rationale and Approach, Organizational Capability, Cost Effectiveness and Budget Adequacy Suggestion: Develop narrative in a Word document and paste into relevant sections Evaluation Summary- re-competes complete, new enter N/A Amendment Justification, Clarification Summary, Continuation Changes—enter N/A

13. Executive Summary (Page 10 RFP)

14. Continue in narratives for Rationale/Approach, Org. Capability, Cost Effectiveness/Budget Adequacy, Evaluation Summary (if applicable)

15. Rationale and Approach Broadly • Crucial application element (50% of review criteria for this section) • Read Page 11, Section III. • RFP pages 12-14 detail each element • Follow the format prescribed in RFP (Virginia priorities first, CNCS priorities second)

16. Rationale and Approach Cont. • Key thoughts to consider: • Why AmeriCorps? • Is it clear that AmeriCorps members are the best way to meet the identified need? • Be Specific! • Are member activities specific, clear, impactful, with documentable outcomes? • Back your Claims! • Is your intervention evidence-based? Will you be able to demonstrate/measure impact? Is the theory of change based on research? • Explain How… • you will effectively recruit a diverse Corps. Not just that you will, but how! • you will train for service and professional development, making a member’s service impactful and meaningful • members will be supervised, and supervisors will learn how to supervise

17. Organizational Capability • What is proposed can be accomplished with the staff, resources, experience, ideas, and money identified • Relevant experience of staff • Ability to provide training and evaluation is clear. • Management of organization wants the program and will support it. • Understanding of path to sustainability • Roles/expectations/requirements of everyone that will be involved (staff, other sites, management) are established

18. Cost Effectiveness and Budget Adequacy • The total amount requested from CNCS cannot exceed # of MSY X $13,300 (ex., requesting 10 MSY X $13,300= maximum request of $133,000). • Diverse resources proven available. • Cost/benefit of your model as opposed to others. • How is budget shown to be adequate for meeting program outcomes (all costs included, clear that costs are appropriate, etc.)

19. Evaluation Summary/Plan • Re-competes only must include Evaluation Summary in narrative section • New programs should be planning collection and evaluation however, for their potential re-compete in the 3 years!

20. Finish Narratives Sections Sections needing content are all entered and show green checks Enter N/A for final 3 items and save

21. Performance Measures

22. Selecting Grant Characteristics

23. Enter Performance Measures Module

24. PM Home Page

25. Select a Focus Area and Objective

26. Select Intervention

27. Primary Focus Area and Intervention

28. Assign MSY to Focus Areas

29. Create Aligned Performance Measures

30. Select the output

31. Select or Add an Outcome and MSY for that outcome

32. Data Collection

33. Data Collection Outcome

34. Validate summarized PM’s

35. CNCS Detailed PM PowerPoint • CNCS has prepared a PowerPoint that will take you through this in much more detail. • OVCS will be working with selected applicants to strengthen Performance Measures

36. Documents section Evaluation only applicable to re-competes. Re-competes select “sent” Select sent or not applicable (see pg. 19-20 of RFP to determine applicability)

37. E-Grants Budget Section I-Operating Costs Pg 23-25 of RFP Section II-Member Costs Pg 25-26 of RFP Section III-Administrative/Indirect Costs Pg 26-28 of RFP

44. Indirect Costs You May Claim 5.26% of CNCS Direct Costs (Section I & II) CNCS Direct Costs * .0526 = Maximum Administrative/Indirect Costs in CNCS Column.

45. CNCS Indirect Costs Breakout Total CNCS Direct Costs * .0526 * .8 = Corporation Fixed Amount Total CNCS Direct Costs * .0526 * .2 = Commission Fixed Amount (1% Retainage Pg 26)

46. All Programs include the 1% at a minimum

47. Grantee Share of Administrative/Indirect Costs 10% CNCS Direct Costs + Grantee Share Direct Costs * .1

48. 1% Goes Here

49. Grantee indirect goes here