Ten Steps to Grant Funding Success Are there Ten Steps to Grant Funding Success? You may know eleven or you may only know six, but in any case tune in to find out this presenter's Ten Best and how you can use them to increase your success in grant funding.  A pre-recorded, no cost, program is available now.    RATINGS: [CM] [GW]  Program Description Like any other discipline grant writing has its do's and don'ts. In this one hour LEAPS web program technologist, grant-writer and trainer Jim Cavanagh will share his list of 10 steps to grant funding success learned from helping numerous agencies and organizations translate their needs into appealing prose that gets projects funded. But, unlike the conventional one-way presentation of traditional webinars, Jim will use the interactive capabilities of LEAPS to survey the viewers, learn how valuable they feel the ten points are and to get feedback and additional helpful suggestions from the viewing audience. When leading interactive, audience-participation programs such as this Jim comments "It's like leading a choir. I am not the only voice and everyone gets so much more value from the collaboration. I'm never the only smart person in the room and I like to lead a group where everyone can learn from each other". This highly engaging one hour program will air at a time when many agencies have just begun their grants process - and many have been hard at work for weeks - for Recovery grants funds and other key law enforcement and public safety grants that are due shortly thereafter. While it is not possible to provide comprehensive grant training in one hour maybe this program is just what you and your agency need to kick-start thinking and to either re-confirm or modify your agency's approach to the process of funding your key programs through grants. [Recommend this LEAPS.TV program to a colleague.] Presenter Bio James P. Cavanagh, Knowledge Transfer Agent Training Institute for Public Safety James P. Cavanagh, is an author, lecturer, consultant, analyst, network architect, security specialist and engineer. In these various roles he provides knowledge transfer services including Subject Matter Expertise, collaboration and training on a broad range of technology-related topics. Jim is an internationally recognized expert on infrastructure and network security, anti-hacking, counter-cyber-terrorism, business and corporate security and implementation of VoIP and IP systems in public safety and law enforcement. He has been honored by the San Jose Chamber of Commerce for a series of four security white papers for business that he distributed free of charge to over 11,000 readers globally including the RCMP and the FBI in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and is the recipient of the International Communications Associations's Citation of Merit Award for "outstanding contributions to global telecommunications". Jim has also worked extensively in the areas of grants and funding for law enforcement and public safety technologies and has led grant projects, written articles and presented seminars and webinars on the subject. Mr. Cavanagh has written Internet commerce and security strategy papers for the governments of Bermuda and South Africa and briefed New Zealand Police, Fire and EMS leaders and the Australian Communications and Media Authority's Emergency Services Communications Advisory Committee on VoiP technology impact on emergency calling. Mr. Cavanagh has published five books on topics as diverse as multimedia networking, network security and frame relay as well as the ebook The Definitive Guide to the Successful Implementation of VoIP and IP Telephony. Mr. Cavanagh is a frequent guest at NENA, APCO and APCOA conferences and has been a guest lecturer at University of Colorado, Georgia Tech and Texas A&M University. Background/Preparatory Reading Get Me the Money: Funding for PSAPs and Public Safety by James P. Cavanagh was published in the NENA ENP magazine in November/December 2006 but the guidance provided in the article is as important for those seeking Recovery grants and other funding now as it was back in 2006. In this article the author proposes 10 steps which, if properly applied, will increase the chance of success. The ten steps, discussed in the article in greater depth, are: Define Goals & Objectives, Use The Power of Cooperation, Combine Complementary Initiatives, Find Multiple Funding Sources, Consider State, Local and Private Funding, Assemble A Grant Proposal Writing Team, Apply a Selling Process, Gather Intelligence, Perform Grant Self-Evaluation and10) Submit Grant and Monitor Grant Progress. While pre-reading is not required viewers will get a lot more out of the program if they have read this article in advance. http://www.leaps.tv/archive/GetMeTheMoney-Article.pdf Sponsored by This program is being made available at no charge to the law enforcement and public safety community thanks to the generous support of The Law Enforcement And Public Safety Channel.