10 Essential Tips to Create a Winning Agility Grants Application
Here's a streamlined version focusing on actionable tips for Agility Grants applications:
A successful Agility Grants application requires strategic planning and attention to key elements that demonstrate your organization's capability to deliver effective problem gambling prevention programming.
- Understand Program Fundamentals
- Review objectives and strategic priorities
- Learn about primary and secondary prevention efforts
- Study the SAMHSA Strategic Prevention Framework
- Set internal deadlines ahead of the official deadline
- Define Your Project Clearly
- State specific purpose and goals
- Identify target audience
- Detail implementation activities
- Outline realistic timelines
- Showcase Innovation
- Highlight unique program aspects
- Detail creative strategies
- Describe innovative technologies
- Explain new approaches to prevention
- Create Detailed Budget
- Keep overhead under 15% of total grant
- Justify all expenses
- Align costs with activities
- Consider budget planning early
- Demonstrate Partnerships
- Include support letters from partners
- Show community collaboration
- Document stakeholder involvement
- Use NCPG's partnership templates
- Present Evidence of Need
- Include relevant statistics
- Reference research findings
- Provide community-specific data
- Document target population needs
- Define Measurable Outcomes
- Set clear evaluation metrics
- Explain tracking methods
- Plan for impact reporting
- Consider watching The Basics of Program Evaluation webinar
- Plan for Sustainability
- Outline future funding sources
- Detail community support plans
- Describe long-term partnership strategies
- Show program viability beyond grant period
- Show NCPG Value Alignment
- Demonstrate prevention commitment
- Align with NCPG principles
- Show understanding of problem gambling spectrum
- Review and Refine
- Read application aloud
- Seek peer feedback
- Attend Agility Grants Office Hours
- Revise based on input
For gambling-related support, contact the National Problem Gambling Helpline at 1-800-GAMBLER, text 800GAM, or visit www.1800gamblerchat.org. Help is available 24/7, free and confidential.