Fire? Police? What about grants for EMS

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1. Where do I find money?

2. Where do I find money?

3. Where do I find money?

Identify needs & focus

Identify needs & focus

Find prospective grant

Find prospective grant

Prepare proposalPrepare proposal

Submit proposalSubmit proposalAccept or decline award

Accept or decline award

Carry out projectCarry out project

File reports with funding agencyFile reports with funding agency

The Grant Process

Needs Assessment

What does your community NEED from you?

Focus on Priority Areas• Education

• Training

• Community Outreach

• Safety

• Overall Health

Prepare for the Grant Process

• Agency One Sheet

• IRS Letter

• DUNS Number

• SAM registration

• Budget last & current

Agency One SheetKey Statistics About Your Agency

• Run Volume

• Coverage (Square miles)

• Personnel

• Demographics

• Response times

Outside Sources

Internal Sources

• Pilot Study

• Surveys

• Committee

Focus: Thinking like a grant writer

Priority Sections

What is your project impacting?

• Education• Training • Community • Safety• Overall health• Mutual aid interests

Identify needs & focus

Identify needs & focus

Find prospective

grant

Find prospective

grant

Prepare proposalPrepare proposal

Submit proposalSubmit

proposalAccept or

decline awardAccept or

decline award

Carry out project

Carry out project

File reports with funding agencyFile reports with funding agency

Where do you find your grant?

Government Grants

Pro • Generous

monetary funds

• Clear priority objectives

• Federal, state, and local options

• Rarely ineligible

Con

• Complex NOFOs

• Highly competitive

• Time consuming and lengthy process

Private Grants

Private Foundation Grants

Pro

• Guidelines, format and application process is clear

• Multi-year grants

• Local focus

Con

• Foundations can switch giving focus yearly

• Limited funds

• Geographic limitations

Corporate Grants Top 10 Corporations that Gave to Charity

# Company Name Cash Donation % of Pre Tax Profit

1 Walmart Stores $311,607,280 1.3%2 Wells Fargo & Company $275,478,175 1%3 Chevron Corporation $274,348,743 0.6%4 Goldman Sachs Group $262,580,983 2.3%5 ExxonMobil Corporation $227,487,934 0.3%6 JPMorgan Chase & Co. $210,908,786 0.8%7 Bank of America $166,453,414 5.4%8 Johnson & Johnson $157,168,000 1%9 General Electric $154,800,000 0.9%

10 Target $148,597,737 3.2%

$311,607,280

Community Foundations

Identify needs & focus

Identify needs & focus

Find prospective grant

Find prospective grant

Prepare proposalPrepare proposal

Submit proposalSubmit proposalAccept or decline award

Accept or decline award

Carry out projectCarry out project

File reports with funding agencyFile reports with funding agency

How can we assist you?

The mission of FireGrantsHelp & EMSGrantsHelp is to provide members of the first responder community with a free, comprehensive resource for grant information and assistance.

Questions?

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866-463-7792 expert@emsgrantshelp.com