Writing a Mock Federal Grant Application
Rutgers 834 575 - Grant Writing & Grant Management
27 April 2020
Assignment:
You are the Executive Director of a small public housing authority. You oversee two buildings which house a mixture of families with a total of 250 heads of households. Your housing authority is restricting for qualifying low-income families. The Authority does not offer any other housing subsidy program. Therefore you do not administer any housing voucher choice programs commonly known as section 8.
Your housing authority is named "last name" Housing Authority. You have never applied for this funding before therefore you are a new applicant. You will be given a real federal grant applicant; however, I have edited the official version so that you don't need a duns number; you don't have to apply on grants.gov and you will not need to be registered with the federal government for access.
Narrative Statement:
Through this NOFA, the Bohon Housing Authority is seeking to implement a Family Self-Sufficiency (FSS) program and hire two full-time FSS Program Coordinators at a salary of $60,000 per year each with additional training expenses. Each FSS Program Coordinator will be serving approximately fifty FSS participants each which would cover one hundred Bohon Housing Authority families or one half of the Authority’s work-able head of households. The expected success rate is that 75% of participants will be financially literate and economically self-sufficient at the end of their five-year contract.
Feedback from Professor:
I would normally take a point off because of the unallowable expense but then you included a disaster plan and I gave it back to you.
You wrote a fundable federal grant application. You should feel very proud of your submission. You can get paid to write this grant for a local housing authority next year!
You are an exceptional writer. You wrote one of the best grant submissions I have had the pleasure of reading.
Very proud of you!