Grant Acquisition
Closing the Gap between the ‘Doers’ and the ‘Writers’
Abstract
Most non-profits assign grants management activities, including application development/submission and reporting, for private and public funding sources to fund development (or fundraising) departments. The AIDS Foundation of Chicago (AFC) operates an innovative alternative model to grants management. AFC’s Program Development (PD) team includes grants management personnel with programmatic content expertise. The PD department is located within the programs division of the agency and each member is assigned a program portfolio for which they perform grants management activities. In addition, team members are embedded within each programmatic team which means that PD staff attend program team operating, project implementation, budget expenditure review, evaluation, and community partner meetings. Overall, this innovative and unique structural change to embed grants management staff within the programs department has resulted in a more efficient use of programmatic and fundraising staff resources to identify and secure private and public funding for the agency.
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