Video 12: Readiness and Implementation Strategy

Readiness and Implementation Strategy

This section of your application will detail how the project will be implemented by identifying resources needed for your project, describing how each milestone activity will be completed, as well as how you plan to recruit and retain project participants.

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This is video 12 of the 2021 pre-application training videos. Developed by the administration for Native Americans regional training and technical assistance center. I'm Drena McIntyre. And I'm your trainer today. I'm with the Alaska region training and technical assistance center. The Alaska region training and technical assistance center, provides free training and technical assistance to the 227 tribes and Native nonprofits located in the state of Alaska. You can reach us at www.anaalaska.org or call 800-948-3158. This video series will introduce you to the basic concepts for preparing a 2021 ANA grant application to support your community-based project. There are 16 videos in the series and we recommend that you take them all in sequence. This is video 12 a pre-application training readiness and implementation strategy. Your application needs to fully describe existing, available and tangible resources and services that are committed to the project such as meeting space, equipment, supplies, curriculum licenses, permits, and et cetera. Your application needs to detail a plan to obtain resources such as supplies, equipment, curriculum, licenses, permits and contracted services needed to support successful project implementation. The applications narrative needs to describe how milestone activities and the resulting outputs will be achieved to demonstrate a fully developed implementation plan. You can get up to 20 points for your readiness and implementation strategy. Also, under this section your application needs to provide a detailed recruitment, selection and retention process for any project participants. The application needs to address project sustainability that should include identification of resources, staff and our partners that are necessary to ensure that positive outcomes are achieved by the project and will be sustained. Your application needs to appropriately cite potential obstacles and challenges to project implementation such as staffing, partnership, participant recruitment or other issues that may impede progress. The application includes specific strategies that will be used to address these challenges. The first, is that application fully describes existing, available and tangible resources that are committed to the project such as meeting space, equipment, supplies, curriculum, licenses, permits, et cetera. And then if you don't have these you need to detail a plan to obtain these resources including supplies, equipment, curriculum, licenses, permits and contracted services, needed to support successful project implementation. Follow these five steps and, this section needs to be tied directly to your objective work plan, which you have already created. So make sure that you keep your OWP close by while you're developing these steps. Determine what resources and services are necessary for project implementation. Establish which resources and services are available within your tribe or organization. Describe available resources and services and their benefit that they bring to the project and why they're necessary. Determine which resources and services are needed from outside the tribal organization, the source they will be obtained from such as partners or outside suppliers and the cost or value. And describe when and how the outside resources and services will be obtained, the benefit they bring to the project and why they are necessary. There is a table on page 85 of your manual that you can use to assess required resources and services. On the headers should include what's available, what you need to obtain, who the resource or service is, Or excuse me, what the resource or services and who the source of it is and then the cost or value of it. You can see that it's gritted out in this case for the Pine Creek tribe, they've listed office space for the project director and it's available through their co-op and the cost or value is $750 a month. And then the four farm sites are being, donated by the four farmers and that value is 4,000 a month. The greenhouses have to be obtained or purchased. The farming equipment already belongs to the four farmers. So that has value and there'll be using it for the project. So you can see out of, six items here three are available and can be used as match for the project because they're being donated or in-kind. You also have purchase of your farming technology supplies and then also signage supplies for the market. And those will be taken from the grant. In your readiness and implementation strategy, ANA wants you to use your words and describe narratively the implementation of your objective work plan. Your applications narrative needs to describe how milestone activities and the resulting outputs will be achieved to demonstrate a fully developed implementation plan. You also need to provide a detailed recruitment selection and retention process for project participants. What kind of participants are you recruiting? Where will you find your participants? What screening or selection process will you use? If your project doesn't need to recruit participants or volunteers, note it so reviewers don't think it was omitted. So just make a one-line statement about it and describe that it's not part of your project. For language projects, in your readiness and implementation strategy, your application needs to include a plan for the preservation of the products of the Native American language project for the benefit of future generations of Native Americans and also described the opportunities to share language materials and methods with other Native American language communities. And for Esther Martinez applications only the application narrative describes a plan for parental engagement, including classes in a Native American language for parents or guardians of enrolled students in the language nest or survival school. The Alaska region training and technical assistance center is here to answer any of your questions. We offer up to 16 hours of free pre-application review for any application that is at least 75% complete. We provide tips and resources to help you complete your application. If you would like to request technical assistance please go to www.anaalaska.org, click on technical assistance at the top of the page, then click on request TA and someone will get back to you quickly. You can also call us at 948-3158.

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Video 2: How to Build your ANA Application

Video 3: Long-Term Community Goal

Video 4: Current Community Condition

Video 5: Project Goals

Video 6: TTIP Objectives

Video 7: Outcomes, Indicators, and Outputs

Video 8: Outcome Tracker & Outcome Tracking Strategy

Video 9: Objective Work Plan

Video 10: Budget

Video 11: Community-Based Strategy

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Video 15: Organizational Capacity

Video 16: Submitting the Application to ANA

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