1. Grant Funding Needs Assessment: Meet with WIHCC staff to identify grant funding needs, prioritize and develop an overall grant funding outline and strategy. A specific hourly rate for this type of work can be proposed on the Cost Proposal Form. 2. Grant Funding Research and Support Activities: Conduct ongoing research to identify grant resources including, but not limited to federal, tribal, state, foundation, agencies and organizations (including the private sector) that support the needs identified within the WIHCC assessment. 3. Grant Application Development: This may include but is not limited to the following types of activities: a. Provide grant proposal writing services associated with the completion of grant applications on behalf of WIHCC, including the preparation of letters of intent, funding abstracts, production, and final submittal of applications by WIHCC. b. Prepare a strategic work plan for the development of the proposed program underlying the grant application, and for production of the application itself, including key dates, responsible personnel, and specific deliverables. c. Ensure that all required components of each proposal are included in submission, ensuring adherence to grant evaluation criteria, and ensuring each entire grant package is timely and correctly prepared in accordance with the requirements and restrictions of its respective funders’ portal and technical submission requirements. d. Through an understanding of the WIHCCs mission, strategic priorities, programs, and stakeholders, effectively communicate the project's need, its goals, objectives, and strategies, including performance outcomes, the budget and narrative, and evaluation plan in a proposal. e. Organize facts, data, statistics and narrative collected and written as a part of assigned projects, developing tabular or graphic data displays as appropriate, and making those item available to WIHCC for future use. 4. Ongoing Communication: Engage in regular and ongoing communication with WIHCC staff regarding the status of current work undertaken and upcoming opportunities. This type of ongoing work shall NOT be billed separately and will be assumed to be built into the proposed hourly rates for specific Tasks 1- 3.
