Prevention Work for Girls/Teens & Rebuilding Lives

Violence Prevention Grants 2016

Prevention Work for Girls/Teens & Rebuilding Lives PROPOSAL QUESTIONS INSTRUCTIONS

Please read all sections carefully.

These instructions are intended to help you write your proposal. The committee relies solely on your answers to each section when making their decisions, so please be as specific as possible. Your proposal will be evaluated on how clearly you describe your program and how well the committee can understand what you intend to do.

Incomplete applications will not be considered.

The Annual Violence Prevention Advisory Committee relies on your responses to the proposal questions to assess the goals and intent of your work. The prompts provided for each proposal question offers suggestions on the information that would be most helpful for our review purposes. Review these prompts to gain a stronger sense of how to form complete responses.

Please answer all 11 questions in full. There are no sample answers provided. DESCRIPTION AND PURPOSE Max Proposal Question Prompts Words 1. What would you like to Define what you will focus on and what are you hoping to 400 achieve with your change or where you would like to make a difference with project / program? this project. Explain how the activities relate to the goal you have chosen.

2. Please indicate why this Please look carefully at the criteria and overall objectives 300 project / program is listed earlier and explain how your work addresses similar important and why priorities. Please also explain how you see this work being Canadian Women’s important to violence prevention as a whole. Foundation should fund it. 3. Is there an identified Why is this specific project important at this time and in 300 need in your community this place? You can reference internal or external studies, / region / province or what women have told your organization, needs nationwide for this? assessments if conducted and background information on Describe. the services or gaps in this area, such as evaluations. In this explanation, please show how your project is relevant to the need of the women, children or teens you work with. ACTIVITIES AND APPROACH

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Max Proposal Question Prompts Words 4. What is included in the Please identify and explain the model chosen and why 400 program? What activities you chose it over other types of project delivery. Please are planned? Please include the overall goal and also the specific objectives include a detailed and tangible outcomes. Explain the educational, training timeline. Upload or skill development activities of the project. How long program or curriculum on average will participants be involved? Include the outline on the next frequency of the sessions, the number of hours per week page. and the duration. Please include the overall theme of each group session / meeting / workshop and highlight Sample timeline is each subject covered. If you are still planning this out, available please send the draft plan. Ideally, we would also like to see at least one session described in detail. This section helps the committee understand the layout of the project.

5. How do you plan to How have girls / teens / women been involved in planning 300 make your work inclusive and development? Give specific examples of how the and reflective of the project has been developed to respond to different participants, respecting participants’ needs, (age group, learning style, language, their diversity / culture). How will participants be actively engaged in the background / project? How will you recruit the participants? experience?

6. Who is involved in Please give an overview of the roles played by staff, 300 carrying out the elders, mentors, and or volunteers and the experience activities as staff, they need. You do not need to provide staff bios or elders, mentors and / or resumes. volunteers? 7. What steps will you take How will your project meet the emotional and physical 300 to ensure safety and safety needs of the participants, staff and volunteers? follow-up for those Explain how you use different tools such as reference involved? checks, consent forms, liability, waivers, disclosure protocols and referrals. After the project ends, are there ways to follow up with the women, children or teens? Are there other projects that they can become involved in, within or outside your organization? Can they return to the project? Can they take on leadership roles and return as volunteers / employees? 8. How do you include a Gender analysis explores and highlights the relationships 300 gender analysis in of women and men in society, and the inequalities in planning your approach these relationships. Please explain how you will highlight and activities? and address underlying gender stereotypical attitudes through activities in your project and give two examples of this.

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9. Please list the partners List the groups that you are working with to support this 400 working with you, outline project. We recognize that not all of them will be their role and tell us how involved to the same extent and not all of them need you will work together, provide a letter of support indicating if their participation is confirmed and whether you are providing a letter from them.

10. For projects / programs It is important for the Foundation to see how these funds 200 with multiple funders: may leverage other funders and also that you have please explain how considered the options to adapt your programming would you adapt / dependent on the funding received, so please be as clear continue to develop your as possible in this section. plans if you received only part of your total budget? EVALUATION Max Proposal Question Prompts Words 11. How will you measure if Your proposal will be assessed on how you plan to monitor 300 this work has been and track the results of this project and how you will share successful? learning with the Foundation and others. Please note what tools will be used to capture information and how your findings will be used by your organization.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION/ASSISTANCE If you need to ask follow up questions, please e-mail or telephone: Phone: 416-365-1444 Fax: 416-365-1745 Toll free: 1-866-293-4483 TTY: 416-365-1732

Keetha Mercer (ext. 238) Beth Malcolm (ext. 235) Manager, Violence Prevention Director, Girls Fund [email protected] [email protected]