Grant Proposal Scenario

Call 4 Action Grant Proposal

Executive Summary/Abstract

The All for Justice (AFP) Task Force is requesting $50,000 to aid our crime prevention program, Call 4 Action, in order to deter crime in our community. The funds will establish a link between businesses and local citizens in preventing theft, vandalism, and robberies that have recently plagued our city. The funds will establish an office with a toll-free hotline and employ staff to assist local police, mayoral constituents, and citizens. The Call 4 Action program has established anonymous funds from a benefactor in the amount of $300,000; however, additional funds are required to set up this office, employ staff, purchase equipment, and train citizens and businesses on effective methods to deter crime. There is an inadequate ability to meet the needs of area businesses and an inadequate awareness of resources available to these businesses that the Call 4 Action program would be able to address.

 

Background

The All for Justice Task Force (AFJ) was established in 2019 to aid the city of Anytown, USA to implement a program to establish a city-wide crime deterrent campaign and assist area businesses who have been affected by a number of thefts, robberies, vandalisms, and fraud schemes. These area businesses, along with the aid of local police and citizen involvement, as well as volunteerism, developed the Call 4 Action program to fight crime in the community. Citizens and volunteers have begun working extensively to establish a Neighborhood Watch program. A generous donation from a local benefactor has supplied additional funds, however, to make the program more effective, an office has been rented and the additional funds will help to set up the office space with office equipment, surveillance cameras installed at various hotspots around the city, and a toll-free hotline established for anonymous reporting established. A staff member is necessary to provide phone support and establish a relationship with local police, sheriff’s department officers, businesses, and citizens.

The office staff will set up equipment and begin printing flyers to post around the city in suspected hotspot areas to encourage reporting of suspicious behavior or direct crime observance. The use of a new printer and computer system will help to perform these necessary tasks. Training materials will be developed to instruct area businesses and citizen volunteers on how to appropriately observe, report, and monitor camera systems footage. Police will provide counseling to those who have been the victim of a crime. All area business will be trained on how to properly develop a cash flow program. The Call 4 Action program would assist area businesses, local police and law enforcement agencies, as well as volunteer citizens on how to effectively work together to combat crime.

Evaluation

Our organization will evaluate our program by holding bi-weekly all stakeholders meetings, at these meetings there will be discussions on all the successes and all the areas that can be improved. We will address all needs and concerns. We will generate a monthly newsletter and monthly community survey in order to be able to measure how well the community perception of the program is doing. There will be continuous communication with the community that we serve and taking their opinions and ideas into account when working on implementing crime prevention that will create a safer community and addresses the needs of all citizens in the community.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conclusion

 

With the right corporations funding our grant proposal to help reduce crime that has been plaguing our community and city for years we will finally be able to create not only a plan but a course of action to put an end to the criminal activity.  The funding covers training personal on how to handle emergency calls and the proper steps to take to alert the police. It also covers the neighborhood watch programs to help citizens take back our cities and small communities. Finally, with this course of action being put into motion our citizens can rest easy again knowing we have taken back out community.