1. NJ Bonner Summit
29 October 2011

2. Agenda
• Welcome
• How to Write a Grant Proposal
• Lunch
• How to Give a Laser Talk
• Laser Talk Tournament
• Staying in Touch

3. Welcome

4. Two Big Ideas

5. What kind of citizen?

6. What kind of citizen?
Personally Justice
Participatory
Responsible Oriented
Citizen
Citizen Citizen
Explores why
Contributes food Helps to organize a people are hungry
to a food drive food drive and acts to solve
root causes
To solve social problems
To solve social problems To solve social problems
and improve society,
and improve society, and improve society,
citizens must question and
citizens must have good citizens must actively
change established
character; they must be participate and take
systems and structures
honest, responsible, and leadership positions within
when they reproduce
law-abiding members of established systems and
patterns of injustice over
the community community structures
time

7. What kind of citizen?
Personally Justice
Participatory
Responsible Oriented
Citizen
Citizen Citizen
Explores why
Contributes food Helps to organize a people are hungry
to a food drive food drive and acts to solve
root causes
To solve social problems
To solve social problems To solve social problems
and improve society,
and improve society, and improve society,
citizens must question and
citizens must have good citizens must actively
change established
character; they must be participate and take
systems and structures
honest, responsible, and leadership positions within
when they reproduce
law-abiding members of established systems and
patterns of injustice over
the community community structures
time

8. What kind of citizen?
Personally Justice
Participatory
Responsible Oriented
Citizen
Citizen Citizen
Explores why
Contributes food Helps to organize a people are hungry
to a food drive food drive and acts to solve
root causes
To solve social problems
To solve social problems To solve social problems
and improve society,
and improve society, and improve society,
citizens must question and
citizens must have good citizens must actively
change established
character; they must be participate and take
systems and structures
honest, responsible, and leadership positions within
when they reproduce
law-abiding members of established systems and
patterns of injustice over
the community community structures
time

9. Networking

10. from “Building Smart Communities through Network Weaving” by Valdis Krebs and June Holley © 2002-2006

14. National Bonner Network
75+ schools & 3,000 Bonners

15. Bonner Alumni
5,000 & growing

21. How to Write a Grant
Proposal
from http://foundationcenter.org/getstarted//tutorials/shortcourse/prop1_print

22. Raising Money

23. Raising Money
• Partnership between donor and
nonprofit.

24. Raising Money
• Partnership between donor and
nonprofit.
• Takes time and persistence to success.

25. Raising Money
• Partnership between donor and
nonprofit.
• Takes time and persistence to success.
• Build a network of donors — fast nickles,
slow quarters

26. Gather Information

27. Gather Information
• Nature of the project and how it
will be conducted

28. Gather Information
• Nature of the project and how it
will be conducted
• Timetable for the project

29. Gather Information
• Nature of the project and how it
will be conducted
• Timetable for the project
• Anticipated outcomes and how best
to evaluate the results

30. Gather Information
• Nature of the project and how it
will be conducted
• Timetable for the project
• Anticipated outcomes and how best
to evaluate the results
• Staffing and volunteer needs

31. Statement of Need

32. Statement of Need
• Facts or statistics best support the project?

33. Statement of Need
• Facts or statistics best support the project?
• Give the reader hope.

34. Statement of Need
• Facts or statistics best support the project?
• Give the reader hope.
• Is your project a model?

35. Statement of Need
• Facts or statistics best support the project?
• Give the reader hope.
• Is your project a model?
• Is the need as acute?

36. Statement of Need
• Facts or statistics best support the project?
• Give the reader hope.
• Is your project a model?
• Is the need as acute?
• Is your approach is different or better than
other projects?

37. Project Description

38. Project Description
• Objectives: measurable outcomes

39. Project Description
• Objectives: measurable outcomes
• Methods: specific activities (how, when,
why)

40. Project Description
• Objectives: measurable outcomes
• Methods: specific activities (how, when,
why)
• Staffing/Administration: who will do
what

41. Project Description
• Objectives: measurable outcomes
• Methods: specific activities (how, when,
why)
• Staffing/Administration: who will do
what
• Evaluation: how will you measure impact?

42. Project Description
• Objectives: measurable outcomes
• Methods: specific activities (how, when,
why)
• Staffing/Administration: who will do
what
• Evaluation: how will you measure impact?
• Sustainability: how will your project
continue?

43. Budget
Up to $2,500

44. Budget
Up to $2,500
• List all expenses

45. Budget
Up to $2,500
• List all expenses
• Give calculations on how you
arrived at totals

46. Budget
Up to $2,500
• List all expenses
• Give calculations on how you
arrived at totals
• Group in subcategories

47. Budget
Up to $2,500
• List all expenses
• Give calculations on how you
arrived at totals
• Group in subcategories
• Narrative explains any unusual
budget items

48. Proposal Packet

49. Proposal Packet
• Cover letter

50. Proposal Packet
•Cover letter
• Proposal Narrative

51. Proposal Packet
•Cover letter
• Proposal Narrative
• Budget

52. Proposal Packet
•Cover letter
• Proposal Narrative
• Budget
• Supporting Documents

53. How to give a laser talk
from Results.org — http://www.results.org/skills_center/for_new_activists/laser_talks_and_powerful_storytelling/

54. What is a Laser Talk?

55. What is a Laser Talk?
• “Elevator speech”

56. What is a Laser Talk?
•“Elevator speech”
• 1-2 minutes to make case &
solicit support

57. What is a Laser Talk?
• “Elevator speech”
• 1-2 minutes to make case &
solicit support
• Important skill for any activist

58. Four Parts — EPIC

59. Four Parts — EPIC
Engage

60. Four Parts — EPIC
Engage
Problem

61. Four Parts — EPIC
Engage
Problem
Inform

62. Four Parts — EPIC
Engage
Problem
Inform
Call to Action

63. Engage

64. Engage
• Draw your listener’s attention

65. Engage
• Draw your listener’s attention
• Use dramatic fact or short
statement

66. Engage
• Draw your listener’s attention
• Use dramatic fact or short
statement
“I’m proud that the U.S. has played a
key role in saving 4.9 million lives since
2002 through our contributions to the
Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis
and Malaria.”

67. Problem

68. Problem
• What is the problem you want the
listener to know about?

69. Problem
• What is the problem you want the
listener to know about?
• Try to connect the problem to an issue
the listener already cares about.

70. Problem
• What is the problem you want the
listener to know about?
• Try to connect the problem to an issue
the listener already cares about.
“But we have much more work to do, since nearly
six million people die annually of these three
preventable and treatable diseases of poverty. The
Global Fund is prepared to help developing nations
save more lives, but it needs $5.25 billion in the
coming year. This funding gap means real people
are not getting access to care.”

71. Inform

72. Inform
• Inform the listener about a solution to
the problem you just presented.

73. Inform
• Inform the listener about a solution to
the problem you just presented.
• Give examples of how and where the
solution has worked, how it has proven
to be effective, and how it benefits the
target group.

74. Inform
• Inform the listener about a solution to
the problem you just presented.
• Give examples of how and where the
solution has worked, how it has proven
to be effective, and how it benefits the
target group.
“U.S. leadership is needed to fully fund the Global
Fund. For every dollar the U.S. contributes, other
donor nations typically contribute $2. The U.S. share
of the need for 2011 is $1.75 billion.”

75. Call to Action

76. Call to Action
• Should be concrete, specific, and
formed as a yes-no question.

77. Call to Action
• Should be concrete, specific, and
formed as a yes-no question.
“Currently, a sign-on letter to appropriators is
being circulated in the House requesting at
least $1.75 billion for the Global Fund in
2011.Would you sign this letter? I would be
happy to provide you with a copy.”

78. Stories

79. Stories
• Recognize the value of a compelling
story.

80. Stories
• Recognize the value of a compelling
story.
• Can take something abstract and
impersonal, like a statistic, and turn
it into something intimate and
emotional.

81. Stories
• Recognize the value of a compelling
story.
• Can take something abstract and
impersonal, like a statistic, and turn
it into something intimate and
emotional.
• Appeals in a way that facts alone
cannot.

82. Laser Talk Tournament

83. Ground Rules

84. Ground Rules
• 25 Teams

85. Ground Rules
• 25 Teams
• Four brackets

86. Ground Rules
• 25 Teams
• Four brackets
• Each round new team member
must present

87. Ground Rules
• 25 Teams
• Four brackets
• Each round new team member
must present
• Judge on: quality of proposal &
presentation

89. Bracket #1 Bracket #1
• Adult Ed 2 • Disaster Services 1
• College Access 1 • Early Childhood 1
• College Access 3 • Emergency Food 1
• Hunger 2 • Environment 1
• Mentoring 6 • Homelessness 1
• Public Health 1 • Mentoring 4

90. Bracket #2 Bracket #2
• Adult Ed 3 • Adult Ed 1
• College Access 2 • Comm Develop 1
• Hunger 1 • Emergency Food 2
• Mentoring 3 • Emergency Food 3
• Mentoring 5 • Mentoring 1
• Public Health 2 • Mentoring 2
• Mentoring 7

91. Judges

92. Judges
• First round: full-time members/staff
judge

93. Judges
• First round: full-time members/staff
judge
• Next rounds: teams out of
competition judge

94. Judges
• First round: full-time members/staff
judge
• Next rounds: teams out of
competition judge
• Tally paper votes with name of team

95. Judges
• First round: full-time members/staff
judge
• Next rounds: teams out of
competition judge
• Tally paper votes with name of team
• Remember: Vote winner based on
quality of proposal & presentation

96. Round 1 Judges
Bracket Teams Judge
College Access 1
1 Adult Ed 2
Ladonna Blount
Disaster Services 1
2 Mentoring 8
Raquel Brewer
Environment 1
Pete Giandonato
Emergency Food 1
Adult Ed 3
3 College Access 2
Shalanda Williams
Mentoring 5
Chris Countryman
Hunger 1
Mentoring 7
4 Emergency Food 2
Allison Warner
Comm Development 1
Ioaki Sanchez
Mentoring 1
Mentoring 2
Erica Franklin
Adult Ed 1

97. Networking

98. NJ Bonner Network

100. Bonner Google Groups
• Adult Education • Homelessness
• Campus Service • Housing & Community
Center Staff Development
• Disability Services • Immigration
• Disaster Services • Juvenile Delinquency
• Economy & Jobs • Prisoner Education &
• Environmental Re-Entry
Sustainability • Public Health
• Food Security • Youth Education

101. Next Steps
• Join email listserv
• Update program profile
pages
• Share ideas, events,
proposals, laser talks, etc.