...Ted Jones is the Surgery Unit Director who is getting ready to prepare a capital expenditure funding program for the coming year. His unit is too small and is running at over 90% capacity, so Ted wants more room. On the other hand, a cardiology surgeon at the hospital wants to create a new cardiac surgery program that would require extensive funding for new state-of-the-art equipment. Therefore, the surgeon has been campaigning with the hospital board members (Baker & Baker, 2011). Furthermore, Ted will need valuable information and will need to have a great strategy to prepare the capital expenditure funding program. Baker & Baker (2011) explains, “Capital expenditures involve the acquisition of assets that are long lasting, such as equipment, buildings, and land. Therefore, capital expenditure budgets are usually intended to plan, monitor, and control long-term financial issues” (p. 177, para 1). While Ted is preparing a capital expenditure budget proposal, there are four requests he should ask for upon creating the proposal. First and foremost, Ted should compose a timeline to show when his unit will open along with justification of the need for the proposal based on firm estimates of future needs (Department of Premier and Cabinet, December 2010, p. 9). A timeline will be able to let the others see his plan more clearly. In addition, Ted should also ask for the hospital’s guidelines and criteria for preparing a capital expenditure funding program. Baker & Baker (2011) states...
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...* Negotiations * “The perfect negotiation” * Phase 1-Preparation * Decide what you want and prioritize your wants -High importance: those you must get if you are to agree at all. -Medium: those that you would prefer to attain, but are not critical -Low: those that you would like to attain, but would not let them jeopardize the deal Assign ranges of possible values to each want Ex: 100-150 euros or “will deliver by Friday” * Phase 1- Preparation Issues Wants Importance Entry Exit Problems your ideal high, med, low should be walk reasonable away * CHECKLIST FOR PREPARATION 1. What are the negotiable issues? 2. What do you want for each? 3. Rank each by it’s importance to you * -High absolutely critical – certain or no deal * -Medium – important but not critical * -Low – like to achieve but would not sacrifice the deal if not obtained 4. What are your entry and exit limits? 5. Entry terms should be reasonable 6. Exit terms are your “walking away” positions 7. All prepared positions could be revised if circumstances suggest changes are advisable * Phase 2-Discovery -Ask open ended questions “How’s business?” “What do you hope to get out of today’s negotiation?” -Listen for clues to what they really want, take notes, the more they talk the better -What criterion are you using? What are your priorities? How do you calculate those numbers? How do you feel about...
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...this subject. In the videos, we learn the concept on community service such as what we doing. We feel very happy because in this subject learn about unity which is work together to make people satisfy such as fell happy and enjoyable in real life. 15 january 2016 (week 2) Second class, we are learning concept and ideas about volunteering. We think volunteering is something that someone to doing something for themselves. What we learn after lecture explain is volunteering is an activity or service which involve spend day time, unpaid, and doing something benefits to someone else. Besides, we also study the purpose and objective of community service. So much video played on the screen about community service make we are as feel excited and want to volunteer ourselves on community service. Social responsibility that we had learning in this lesson is to perform activities to balance relationship between economy and ecosystem. 22 january 2016 (week 3) Today we are study about personal benefit of community service, which is about when we are working our community service, the skills, and knowledge. With this, we are can applied in the future area work may also increase participant social connectively. Besides, we are also study about social skills, we find that it was important because the skill that we use interact and communicate with others can increase our communication skills.in addition, lecture teach what individual and social responsible which is about everywhere can take...
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...Introduction The proposal the new Chief Executive, Gemma Mabbutt, is risky and irreversible and therefore must be successful and profitable for the business. Arguments for the proposal Superstyle’s gearing ratio is currently at 28%. This indicates that Superstyle is low geared. This identifies that Superstyle has capacity to borrow money from the bank as explained previously with a gearing ratio low at 28%. The gearing ratio alongside the current ratio of 2.79:1 shows that the company is not is a bad liquidity state and so would be able to handle a long term loan (e.g bank loan) because it has a substantial amount of assets which would be able to cover a loan. Gemma Mabbutt, the chief executive of Superstyle, is required to raise 200 million to finance her proposal and so the low gearing ratio shows that the business is able to obtain some of this finance through a long term loan. Another reason to suggest the proposal should go ahead is that, considering the resource material, the plan will achieve growth though expanding internationally into a low risk franchise. This means people in that country will operate separate Superstyle stores while giving a proportion of profit to Superstyle. This is low risk as the people operating in the stores will have knowledge of the market they are featuring in and so will know if the customer demand. The growth will increase brand recognition of Superstyle making it a stepping stone towards aim of becoming a ‘global brand’ meaning that...
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...Agricultural Marketing Services The proposal interests me because it deals with businesses who voluntary want their plants inspected against USDA guidelines for diaries. This is interesting because I would think each dairy would be required to be inspected and not voluntary. Being that the fee may rise and the inspection is voluntary then most likely those businesses will pass the cost onto consumers. This could potentially affect my clients who have children and need dairy products to meet their babies’ daily needs. I hope to safely assume all dairies would want to be inspected and graded according to USDA guidelines in the event something of bad product being introduced to the public. 2. Describe the proposal/change. The proposal increases the fee for business who wants their dairy plants inspected against USDA inspections and grading services. These fees were last adjusted in 2006. According to the regulation, “despite the adoption of technologies that have improved services, additional changes in operations that enhanced efficiencies, and reduced employee numbers, increases in salaries, technology investments, and general inflation have more than offset savings resulting in the need to increase fees.” The proposed increase will be 15 percent for fiscal year 2013 and 5 percent for fiscal year 2014. The two-part incremental fee increase consisting of 15 percent begins in February 2013 and the additional 5 percent in October 2013. According to the proposal the increase would be $ 0...
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...Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal HSM/270 September 3, 2012 Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Writing a grant proposal is an important aspect of the human service field. Grant proposals enable new programs to find funding. Grants provide funding to organizations and programs which does not need to be paid back. The money is provided for a specific project and for a certain time frame. In order for an agency to receive funding through a grant they must submit a grant proposal. The first step to writing a grant proposal is to find an organization which has the same mission. The grantor must have a request for funding opportunities published. The organization seeking the funding should then submit an application for a grant proposal. Once the application to submit a grant proposal is submitted and approved the agency will be notified of the deadline in which the grant proposal must be turned in by. The first part of a grant proposal is the abstract. The abstract may range in lengths depending on what information the grantor requires. The abstract provides a summary of the grant proposal and should include a description of the problem or need, target population, the cost of the program, and how the program will be evaluated. This is also where the organization will be introduced and state how the program meets the requirements set by the funding organization. The abstract should be carefully written and contain any key information needed. Many times the abstract is the...
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...Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Holly Regan HSM/270 June 8, 2014 Fedder Williams Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Grant proposals are a crucial element within a human service organization for new programs to find and request financial funding from grantors. These grants come from a variety of sources which are usually to fund a specific target population program within an allotted time frame. For an organization to receive funding they must write and submit a grant proposal. A grant proposal is a written presentation of a program plan that is comprised of several different elements or components that include an abstract, table of contents, specific aims/background and significance/needs and problem statement, target population, approaches and methods, long and short-term goals, process/outcome and impact objectives, activity plans/scheduling (timeline), evaluation plan, agency capacity and project management, and a budget/budget justifications. The first step is to find an organization that shares the same mission with a published request for funding opportunities written by the grantor, also called an RFP (request for proposal) or RFA (request for application). Applicant agencies or organizations are given about six to eight weeks to respond to the RFP/RFA which details all major important information such as due dates, funding focus, eligibility, and the program type the grantor wishes to fund. Part one of the grant proposal is the table of contents. The table...
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...CECC Evaluation as We Care Foundation Board Member Susan Miller University Of Phoenix BSHS 451 Program Design and Proposal Writing Linda N. Latham, MFT October 26, 2010 CECC Evaluation as We Care Foundation Board Member We Care Foundation is in receipt of the grant request for the amount of $5,000. Whereas some of the guidelines for such a request have been followed, there are a few areas that need clarification before We Care can submit funds to the organization. The first item needed is a proof of tax-exempt status as a 501(c) (3) organization. According to the grant proposal policy set up by We Care Foundation for all funds proposals, requests cannot be accepted for capital expenditures, tuition, scholarships, fundraising drives, emergency relief, or endowments. In the budget breakdown section of the proposal, we request a more detailed breakdown in the areas of non-personal and educational equipment. As noted on our request guideline we do not fund any capital expenditures and, we need more clarification on these costs before we can accept the proposal. Credibility The credibility of CECC is also a question that needs to be answered with more clarification. CECC has been around for six years and that is quite an accomplishment. However, are there any other awards or recognitions that CECC may have received after the award from CDBG in 1994? The type of service provided by CECC correlates...
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...15 Success Road Downtown XY2 1YX 19th September 20XX Dear John The blue areas are the notes to help you develop your own proposal NOTE: Start off your proposal with a warm opening statement, here is a suggestion that we use and find that it works really well. It was great to meet you and Jane on Thursday, September 13th, I really enjoyed the meeting and finding out about your plans and ambitions for the business. Having had time to think about how we can help you take ACME to the next level, I have outlined the approach we would take to work with you to achieve your business objectives. I would appreciate if you read this document from start to finish as it has been designed to be read in this way. Your Current Situation NOTE: We have found that it is better to talk about the client’s current situation rather than a lengthy executive summary that focuses on the past. You can include in this part, the vision that the client has for their business and the future direction they would like to go in. Therefore it’s important that you ask the right questions to get this information during the meeting you have had with the client prior to developing this proposal. Knowing where the client wants to take their business is key to the recommendations that you make. Here is a suggested opening sentence that we have used for this part of the proposal. You want ‘jump start’ sales and marketing activity to ensure the business does not plateau over the next five years, new clients are...
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...leader -not innovative -less profitable than store brands and competition ! Over the past 3 years the results of the division have been decreasing and there are several reasons behind this: - The whole soup industry has been declining for several years. The Lisbon MBA Class 2014 Ana Amaral 1 Marketing Management - The largest and most loyal segment of soup consumers, the baby boomers, which account for 20% of American population and are the main target, have been showing increasing concerns with processed food and high sodium content shifting to healthier alternatives. - Increasing trend within working mothers who tended to prefer “convenience”. ! Bert Clark, vice-president and general manager of Brannigan Foods’ Soup Division needs to take action and present a plan to senior management to go back to growing sales within the division and...
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...Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal The PEACE Domestic Violence Agency is the scenario chosen by for the remainder of this course. The agency is based out of Portland, Oregon. Portland is a large metropolitan city. Throughout the last five years there have been an increase in reports of domestic and youth violence, spousal and child abuse, assault and road rage incidents. The Organization Mission The PEACE Domestic Violence Agency’s mission is to reduce victim trauma, empower survivors and promote recovery through direct services. PEACE is committed to reducing the incidence of sexual assault and domestic violence through education and strives to challenge societal norms and beliefs that condone and perpetuate violence in the community. Funding Opportunities The National Foundation has two grant programs that provide to not-for-profit agencies. There is a Small Grants Program that can offer one-time grants up to $5,000.00 to registered charities that have an annual budget that is under $500,000.00. There is also an Investor Program. The Investor Program is an innovative funding program that is designed to support up to six organizations under each of the objectives of the Supporting Families Program. This is with up to $150,000.00 per year for up to three years. Grant Proposal Steps. Grants could be written for the PEACE Domestic Violence Agency to assist with funding. While there are several issues within the Portland area, PEACE would benefit greatly from gaining more...
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...Grant Proposal PEACE Domestic Violence Agency The steps for writing a grant proposal are; Abstract: The abstract of a proposal is about 45 lines maximum and it is the summary of the proposal. The abstract includes; the name of the agency, type of organization, purpose and objectives of the project, specific interventions for the project. The abstract also includes; the target population, demographic, age, gender, SES, special needs, etc., location and settings of project, relevance of the proposal project to the funding intentions. Table of Contents: The table of contents is about two pages and the road map for the reader to find the information that is needed. The table of contents also serves as the checklist and the framework to guide the development of the proposal. This will also help the agency who is in need of the funds to make sure they have all the right information in the proposal. Specific aims/background and significance/needs and problem statement: Should be about three pages long. “The needs/problem statement examines what is happening that requires attention, attempts to explain why it is happening, and discusses what currently is being done to address it” (Coley and Scheinberg, 1990). In the needs/problem statements try to highlight the uniqueness of the program, what is this program bringing new to the table. Coley and Scheinberg, (1990) from our text suggest some strategies for the applicants to help with the writing of the needs/problem...
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...Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Holly Regan HSM/270 June 8, 2014 Fedder Williams Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Grant proposals are a crucial element within a human service organization for new programs to find and request financial funding from grantors. These grants come from a variety of sources which are usually to fund a specific target population program within an allotted time frame. For an organization to receive funding they must write and submit a grant proposal. A grant proposal is a written presentation of a program plan that is comprised of several different elements or components that include an abstract, table of contents, specific aims/background and significance/needs and problem statement, target population, approaches and methods, long and short-term goals, process/outcome and impact objectives, activity plans/scheduling (timeline), evaluation plan, agency capacity and project management, and a budget/budget justifications. The first step is to find an organization that shares the same mission with a published request for funding opportunities written by the grantor, also called an RFP (request for proposal) or RFA (request for application). Applicant agencies or organizations are given about six to eight weeks to respond to the RFP/RFA which details all major important information such as due dates, funding focus, eligibility, and the program type the grantor wishes to fund. Part one of the grant proposal is the table of contents. The table...
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...of the Department of Planning and Community Development. You have sat in on a Technical Reference Group to oversee the preparation of an EES, so you have a reasonable idea of the processes for the screening of proposals and what an EES involves. The Minister has asked you to advise him on the need for an EIA for a proposal that is being developed, and is likely to be referred to him: in which case the Minister will be required to make a decision about whether an EIA is required. The proposal to be considered is the Doncaster Rail Study Phase One Final Recommendations Report. http://www.doncasterrailstudy.com/ (with specific reports to be found in http://www.doncasterrailstudy.com/publications/) In accordance with normal practice, you will report your investigation to the Minister through a Memorandum (Memo) of 2000 words; this will form the basis upon which the Minister makes his decision. In the Memo you want to provide an overview of the need for an EIA. If one is needed you will be giving the rationale for this and will outline the general structure and contents of the EES. For this you will be considering the scope of the EES and the main topics to be included (following the contents of an EES outlined in the EES Guidelines). You want to give particular attention to the feasible alternatives and the environmental issues to be considered. You will also comment on the sources of data (or how the data would be obtained), and comment on the preferred...
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...When writing a request for proposal it is essential to remember that you are creating a formal document for publication. As such, the document becomes a reflection of not just you but of the organization as well. Therefore, the proposal needs to be clear, organized and detailed. Before you begin to write your proposal you first need to narrow down what you want. Then you need to take that list of what you want and narrow it down to what you really need. Lastly, you need to take the list of what you really need and compare it to what is really feasible. While you are doing this, get feel for what kind of response you are seeking. Each vendor will respond differently and with their own aspect of where the focus should be placed. For example, some will focus on the quality of the work, some will focus on lowering the cost or some will focus on the desired timeline (Reh, 2013). Where do you want the focus of the project to be placed? Three important sections of a request for proposal would be the statement of work, the assumptions and constraints and the terms and conditions. The statement of work (SOW) defines the project objective and scope of work. Provide the vendor with the company’s background and services so they can gain a perspective on the business and its needs. There needs to be detailed list of contract data requirements and system specifications (Jones, 2011). Remember that this is the part that will be the driving force of your selection, so the more...
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