FY2017 Community Service Grant
Orientation Service Summary
Target Areas
Three target areas endorsed by Board of County
Commissioners
 Improve the high school graduate rate
o Improve literacy and/or parental
involvement
o Decrease the achievement gap
o Provide access to extracurricular
outlets, mentors and role models
 Prevent health risks and diseases
o Provide immunizations
o Change behaviors to avoid illness
and diseases
o Eliminate/mitigate disparities in
health care
 Promote residents’ financial self-sufficiency
o Provide pre-employment services
o Provide hard skills training
o Support individuals in their
employment
o Provide resources for job retention
and advancement
Problem Statement: Describe the need
Service Strategy: What solution do you propose to
address the problem/need?
Service delivery and key activities: How will you
accomplish the strategy?
Target population: To whom will you be delivering
services?
Service Geography: Where will you deliver services?
Collaboration/Partnerships: With who will you
deliver services?
Service Results: So, what is the impact of your
services?
Words of Advice and Caution
Align to a Target Area
Responses provided to Problem Statement, Service Strategy,
Service Delivery and Key Activities, and Service Results should
clearly align to a target area.
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FY2017 Community Service Grant
Orientation Performance Summary
Key Terms
Output
 Definition: The number, frequency or amount of an occurrence
 Examples
o Number of unduplicated individuals served
o Number of hours of service provided
o Number of immunizations given
o Number of mentors matched
Outcome
 Definition
o What occurs as a result of activities
o Calculation of the impact of a service/program
 Examples
o % of students with on-time promotion to next grade level
o % of individuals served placed in a job within six months
o % of patients initially treated for health risk who have reduced that health risks (i.e.
patients with hypertension with lowered blood pressure readings, patients with prediabetes with HgA1c levels brought in to normal range)
Method for data collection and tracking
 Definition
o The way individuals are counted, calculations are made or results are verified
 Examples
o Attendance sheets
o Surveys
o Patient database
Target
 Definition: The goal for output or outcome
 This is usually tied to the program budget (i.e. the organization plans to serve 1,000 clients and
therefore the budget for the service is $100,000)
Actual
 Definition: the verifiable results achieved
Words of Advice and Caution
Be clear on the number of people served with
County funding
Be clear on the difference between output and
outcome
If there is no output/outcome data from prior
years, please input a zero for each prior year.
SMART Performance Measurement
Specific – Goals are clear and unambiguous
Measurable – Data is available to verify results
Ambitious – Services improve or increase
Relevant – Goals respond to current needs
Timely – Goals can be achieved in the time allotted
FY2017 Community Service Grant
Orientation Budget Summary
Key Terms
Budget – financial plan for how you
will accomplish activities and achieve
goals
Fiscal Year – period used for
calculating annual financial statements
FY15 Actuals – Revenue/Income and
expenses that tie back to your audited
financial statement from fiscal year
ending in 2015
FY16 Budget – Revenue/income and
expenses as approved/adopted/
passed by your Board of Directors
for fiscal year ending in 2016
FY17 Budget – financial plan for
delivering services as proposed in this
application
Words of Advice and Caution
Present clear consistent data.
 The four cells circled to the
left must equal one another.
 If you submit more than one
application, ensure that you
provide the same Total
Organization Budget for
current year in both
applications.
There is no pre-defined amount of
money that will be granted each year.
Applications are reviewed and scored
by subject matter experts in each
target area, and then the applications
ranked irrespective of target area.
Grant awards range from $15,000 to
$1,000,000. Typical first-year grant
awards are $25,000 to $50,000.