NPHS 104 - Federal Homeland Security Grant Writing

3 Credits: (3 lecture)

Course Description
This course provides the skills necessary for writing winning grant proposals for federal homeland security grants. Complex grant writing issues, specifically to garner federal and state emergency and homeland security monies, will be addressed by offering participants practical, real-world solutions to their grant writing challenges.

Text
Francis K. O. Yuen. Practical Grant Writing and Program Evaluation. California: Brooks Cole, 2002. Print.  

Objectives
The student will be able to 

A. Identify homeland security grant programs. 

B. Develop a formal homeland security grant proposal. 

C. Identify funding via a wide variety of grant sources. 

D. Describe the processes that will take place during the grant proposals lifespan from drafting approval and submittal to receiving the grant and ensuring quality control over its expenditure cycle. 

Content
A. Philanthropy in the United States 

B. Program planning and evaluation for grant writing 

C. Grant proposals 

D. Data collection tools, strategies, and analysis 

E. Grant funding accountability 

F. Homeland Security/Public Safety Grants 

Student Evaluation
Final grade will be based on assignments, quizzes, and a formal grant proposal project.  

Bibliography
FEMA | Federal Emergency Management Agency. Web. 25 Feb. 2011. <http://www.fema.gov/emergency/nims/index.shtm>.