SOCW 6070: Supervision, Leadership, and Administration in Social Work Organizations

Please note that this is a master level course so master level work. Please check the grammar and you have to use the reading that I have provided to you. You must answer all the questions that I post. Thank you.

Week 9

Funding and Financial Management

Readings

• Lauffer, A. (2011). Understanding your social agency (3rd ed.). Washington, DC: Sage.

o Chapter 9, “Fundraising and Development” (pp. 285– 320)

• Barasa, E. W., Cleary, S., Molyneux, S., & English, M. (2017). Setting healthcare priorities: a description and evaluation of the budgeting and planning process in county hospitals in Kenya. Health policy and planning, 32(3), 329-337.

• Bowman, W. (2011). Financial capacity and sustainability of ordinary nonprofits. Nonprofit Management & Leadership, 22(1), 37–51.

• Foundation Center. (2018). GrantSpace: Sample documents. Retrieved from https://grantspace.org/resources/sample-documents/

Note: You will need to create a log-in to the website to access and download the documents. This is a free service.

• LeRoux, K. (2009). Managing stakeholder demands: Balancing responsiveness to clients and funding agents in nonprofit social service organizations. Administration & Society, 41(2), 158–184.

• Nelson, D., & Ruffalo, L. (2017). Grant writing: Moving from generating ideas to applying to grants that matter. The International Journal of Psychiatry in Medicine, 52(3), 236-244.

Media

• Foundation Center. (2015, September 10). Introduction to project budgets [Video file]. Retrieved from https://grantspace.org/training/introduction-to-project-budgets/

• Foundation Center. (2015, April 21). Introduction to proposal writing [Video file]. Retrieved from https://grantspace.org/training/introduction-to-proposal-writing-3/

• Foundation Center. (2015, September 10). Introduction to fundraising planning [Video file]. Retrieved from https://grantspace.org/training/introduction-to-fundraising-planning/

Discussion 1 must have one page and by itself

Funding through Grants

To Prepare: Review sample grants at https://grantspace.org/resources/sample-documents/. Identify one grant to discuss.

• Describe the key elements to grant writing.

• Provide a brief description of the grant proposal you selected and explain the strengths of the proposal and any areas where it could be improved.

• Explain how you would improve on the grant proposal to convince the funder that funding this program would have a positive and measurable effect on the community.

Support your post with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.

Discussion 2 must have one page and by itself

Financial Capacity and Sustainability in Human Services

To Prepare: Review the budget provided in the grant proposal that you discussed in Discussion 1 of This Week. Consider how you would prioritize budgetary needs and fundraise to continue covering costs of this program after the grant period has ended.

Post a brief description of the budget presented in the grant proposal you selected. Describe how you might alter the budget after the grant ended or which budget items you would prioritize as you sought additional funding to continue the program. Explain why you would make these changes or prioritize specific budget items. Finally, explain how you would fundraise to meet the budget priorities.

Support your post with specific references to the resources. Be sure to provide full APA citations for your references.