The organization is Family Promise. Family Promise assists family families facing a housing crisis. For instance, Family Promise collaborates with children and families who are homeless or at risk of becoming homeless by helping providing the necessary tools to get back on their feet and create a stable home for their children. The grant will specifically address increasing access to housing for families experiencing homeless through establishing a landlord liaison. The landlord liaison role will be to act as an advocate for families that are experiencing difficulty with obtaining a home. The landlord liaison will partner with clients, landlords and community service agencies.
Identify three concepts from this video that especially pertain to the program that you have chosen. Explain the relevance of the concept in terms of grant writing for your particular program. (2 points)
The first concept that relates to Family Promise is the need statement when writing a grant, which I think is an essential component of the proposal. As addressed in the video this relates to illustrating how the needs of the program or organization are not adequately being addressed. This concept …show more content…
The solution should link to the mission, goals, and objective of Family Promise. This will require researching whether the solution to improve housing for families at Family Promise would involve a landlord liaison. In particular, for Family Promise, this concept relates to requesting the right amount of funding to address the issue of finding adequate housing sooner for families and children at Family Promise. When writing the grant I should make sure that the solution matches the need. For instance, there may be other solutions that help families that are experiencing homelessness, which should be explore through