The methodology section is one of the core components of the grant. This section is concerned with addressing the question: “How will you carry out the project?” (Gitlin & Lyons, 2014, p. 92). For exa

Running head: RAIKES FOUNDATION FUNDER

Week 2: Raikes Foundation Finalized Project Funder: Youth Homeless Shelter

Alexis Lowe

Walden University

HUMN 6207: Grant Writing

Professor Marine Carroll

September 8, 2019

Part one

The description of the grant to be used in this paper includes the promotion and fostering of community partnerships to reduce homelessness in various communities. In essence, the project is intended to engage both provincial and territorial government levels to join the effort of aligning homelessness investments and priorities with the ultimate goals and objectives to prevent and reduce the aspect of homelessness especially in many youths (Forchuk, 2018). To elaborate, the grant is a unique program based on community affairs with the ultimate goals of eliminating if not reducing homelessness issues within various communities. Moreover, the project is aimed to accomplish this by encouraging funders to directly provide their support and funds to about sixty designated communities across all territories and provinces that are possible to reach. The most appropriate hyperlink for identifying RFP is: https://raikesfoundation.org/our-grants

One of the significant factors that make this grant to be worth and for one to gain the confidant of pursuing it is the fact that it has been witnessed working for other countries. For instance, the grant was given just this year to the Legal Counsel for Youth to improve on the well-being of young people by advancing their legal rights. Also, The funds were well utilized by focusing them on, especially youth and young adults of age fifteen to twenty-eight. Based on that, it is a potential grant that I believe if well managed it is worth to take the risk as it guarantees the reduction of homelessness.

  For evaluation purposes, several questions were identified to assess whether the grant was aligned with the objectives and goals of eliminating or reducing the aspect homelessness in various communities within the country. Furthermore, there were designed questions that aimed at assessing the progress of the program in its implementation including coordination, communication, reporting, adherence to housing first principles, monitoring as well as an assessment of early outcomes of the grant.

In accomplishing all the necessary criteria that were required by the project, I utilized Bing as my search engine for the task.

The goals and objectives of the selected funding agency are to ensure that it provides all the necessary resources that can enable the non-profitable organizations with its purposes of fulfilling the intended impact towards the communities concerned. Besides, the agency is aimed at addressing the essential issues relating to homelessness of especially youths and young adults within different communities.

  The primary reason for selecting the RFP is accompanied by the fact that community-based programs tend to be more reliable and effective when it comes to dealing with issues affecting people in societies. In essence, it is much easier to identify such problems through community initiatives as they tend to understand which issues affect them and the core roots or foundation of the issues. Also, since the issues are community-based, the people living in such communities have experiences in regards to how they face the problems and how they tend to reduce the issues by the limited resources available for them (Belone, 2016). As such, I select the community-based program because homelessness is an issue that can be explained by the community itself and the people living in such communities knows why many youths and young adults find themselves on the streets without a place they can refer to as home. Also, they see the foundation of the issue and how well they can utilize the funds provided by the funders to reduce and eliminate the aspect of homelessness within their respective communities.

Part two

The project Intend to choose is the Homelessness Partnering Strategy which is a unique program that aims at working with various communities. The primary goal of partnering with community-based initiatives is to attempt on eradicating homelessness situations, especially for youths and young adults. Substantially, there has been a significant increase in youths and young adults with no place to call home. As such, I intend to propose an effective and efficient way that can help to reduce the number of people without shelter in various communities and for a long term, completely eradicate the issue from all communities across the nation.

The significance of this grant is that at the end of its implementation, all youths and young adults without homes will be provided with a shelter they can refer to as their homes. On the other hand, the innovative thing about the grant is that it tends to include the community as its major partnership.

As I toured different communities within our country, I realized that since I was a little child, the number of youths and young adults who tend to sleep across the streets have drastically increased to a significant amount. Therefore, I saw that there was a need to give the matter attention since the conditioned could even be worse if not attended to. For this reason, I think that my project should be considered and the funders should fund it because I have no adequate resources to implement it.

The concerned project is better since unlike many projects with similar goals and objectives, the Homelessness Partnering Strategy is a program or project that aims at promoting and fostering community to work together with our organizations in identifying the issues that typically results to homelessness and which ways are effective in dealing and eliminating them.

References

Belone, L., Lucero, J. E., Duran, B., Tafoya, G., Baker, E. A., Chan, D., ... & Wallerstein, N. (2016). Community-based participatory research conceptual model: Community partner consultation and face validity. Qualitative health research, 26(1), 117-135.

 Forchuk, C., O’Regan, T., Jeng, M., & Wright, A. (2018). Retaining a Sample of Homeless Youth. Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 27(3), 167.