Video 5: Project Goals

Project Goals

This section will provide you with an overview of Project Goals

The project goal is a single statement describing what is to be achieved by the project’s implementation and/or what role the project will play in addressing the current community condition. It can describe a reduction or resolution of a negative condition, or it can describe an expanded capacity to successfully address the current community condition. The project goal should be achievable within the timeframe allotted for the project.

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This is video five of the 2021 pre-application training videos, developed by the Administration for Native Americans Regional Training and Technical Assistance Centers. I'm your trainer today. My name is Drena McIntyre, and I'm with the Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center. The Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center is here to offer 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 is a 16-video series where we introduce you to the basic concepts for preparing a 2021 ANA grant application to support your community-based project. There are 16 videos in this series, and we urge you to take all in sequence. This is video five of pre-application training, Project Framework, and we're going to discuss the project goal. Your project goal needs to clearly demonstrate that the project goal specifically relates to the purpose of the FOA that you're applying to, as described in section one, program description, SEDS program purpose. You can get up to two points for this section of the application. Your project goal statement should be one sentence in length. It should reduce, improve, or eliminate your current community condition. And it needs to be identified by your community, and be realistic. An example of a project goal as stated by the Pine Creek tribe is to reduce fresh produce costs to the community by implementing farming innovations. You can go to page 38 of the manual to read more about project goal. To address this element, you should align your project with at least one program purpose priority stated in section one of your FOA. You should clearly describe the relationship between the project goal and the chosen program purpose. In SEDS, you would discuss social development, economic development, or governance. For ERE, it's regulate environmental quality, and for language, it would be language preservation, teacher certification, or language nests or survival schools. For the Pine Creek tribe, they're describing how their project goal relates to the purpose of the SEDS FOA. And specifically, they're discussing social and economic development. They're stating that their project will address economic development by improving farming techniques to expand the types of crops grown by local farmers. And additionally, it will address social development by providing a service to improve health and wellbeing of their community members by providing fresh produce at a reduced cost. Go to page 40 of the manual to see an activity to create your project goal. Write your project goal statement in one sentence, and then discuss how it addresses your current community condition. that you stated earlier, and describe how your project goal relates to the purpose of the SEDS FOA, or language FOA or ERE FOA, depending on what you're writing. The Alaska Region Training and Technical Assistance Center is here to answer your questions. We offer 16 hours of free application review and provide tips and resources to help you complete your application. If you want that pre-application review, just go to our website at www.anaalaska.org, click on Technical Assistance, and then request TA, and someone will get back to you quickly. You can also call 800-948-3158.

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Video 1: Brief Introduction to ANA and New Funding Opportunities

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

Video 12: Readiness and Implementation Strategy

Video 13: Contingency Plans

Video 14: Sustainability Plans

Video 15: Organizational Capacity

Video 16: Submitting the Application to ANA

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Project Goals

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