Grant Proposal

Grant proposal A was about implementing an expansion to ABC’s Alternative Breaks program to send groups of students to various communities around the country. Overall, I felt this grant was well written. This grant proposal is straight to the point, but gives enough information within most areas where clarification in not necessary. This grant proposal falls under the community service, and civic engagement categories. Although this grant proposal is for an expansion of preexisting program, I can see why they want to expand the program. The program is helps bring awareness to social problems, promotes physical activity, and helps entice people to engage in their communities. I feel that this expansion program would benefit communities,

It is without a doubt that any police department should grow to meet the needs of their constituents. In some cases the number of police officers should not exceed the number per capita of citizens, or this rule may back fire. By this I mean if the number of citizens in any given part of a city or county outweighs the number of allowed police officers, the officer may end up with a work load much greater than he or she can handle and therefore end up either transferring to another law enforcement agency or quitting the force all together because the job is getting stressful.

Secondly, Crime will decrease in Newark, NJ by the city assigning more officers to be on patrol instead of doing desk work. If there were more cops on patrol there would not be a lot of crime rate to begin with. Some officers do not get the chance to patrol. If Newark assigns these officers to patrol instead of doing desk work the crime rate would instantly drop like when Newark had its first crime free month since 1966. Newark is a large city that need close attention because of poverty and etc… People cannot even walk down the street without worrying whether or not they will come back alive or dead. Robert Andrews also told the Star Ledger “he had been inundated with calls from residents to patrol Newark’s streets.”?”(Giambusso and Friedman,” Laid off Newark police officers cope with unemployment.”) If somebody does not step up to the plate Newark residents will be in jeopardy again.

Working as the budget director for the mayor of the city of Kelsey, we have recently been getting numerous complaints from the citizens about an increase in crime and also an issue of the public demanding for more police officers. With the population of the city growing daily, the increase of crime is continuing to progress as well. The mayor has informed us that this past year is the highest increase in crime in the city’s history, that the federal government has reduced the federal pass-through money for the state and that the budgeting group needs to revamp the budget for the coming year. Within this document as the

This type of leader hopes to transform their community by encouraging their followers to adopt goals and behaviors that will be rewarded. These type of leaders challenge old values and beliefs to stimulate new ideas and reasons. I have chosen this theory, first, based on how she spoke throughout the interview. She was patience and understanding, willing to explain certain terms I was not knowledgeable of and emphasized how important she views her job and what it entitles. I can tell, as a woman in her position, that she is considerate of the each need of an officer, their abilities on the job and willing to give recommend to the officers. I have chosen this theory, secondly, based on her pay raise answer to the consultant question. It was not quoted earlier in the essay, but Officer Bird explained that bonuses gives officers an incentive to increase job performance. She stated that, at times, an officer loses motivation which affects their performance, as well as the performance of others. “If an officer is focusing on a job that doesn't need his/her attention, then the surrounding officers now have to take on his/her lacking responsibilities on top of their own. This can affect performance for their assigned job, meal time, longer work hours and interaction”(Bird). She spoke with confidence about the future of the NYPD

The recommendations were to “develop screening procedures” when it came to choosing officers for urban areas, adding more “manpower” to specific urban areas would help to reduce the crime rate, and to focus on more serious crimes . They also encouraged community support for law enforcement.

Although many people seem to believe that rural communities and populations are without crime, this is a misconception that effects the way in which policing takes place. Crime statistics in local communities do not put emphasis on the happenings in rural communities. This leads to shortages in specialty crime units that could be useful in rural areas, though difficult to supply because of low usage. The resources, such as funding, that could be allocated to rural areas is then provided to other departments that benefit locals. This could lead to shortage of officers in rural communities, which causes strain on officers from higher shift loads. For a local police officer, work slates can be divided up as other staff can come and complete already

1) Convocation of the housing summit – to be able to immediately allocate $500,000 for the program the Mayor needed to summit all the components involved in this planning process. From the County committee, city staff, and any private organization related with the program.

Do the three different levels of government have a choice in the matter? The amount expended on the criminal justice system is going to be directly proportional to the amount of crime occurring. Also, if the local government were to choose to provide less police protection, then there is a high likelihood that the crime rate would increase resulting in more expenditures occurring in the Judicial and Corrections stages so overall there would not be a decrease in overall expenditures. If more money were spent on local police protection, it might have an impact on reducing the crime rate, but most municipalities are operating at full capacity within a system that is funded by taxes which no one wants to see increased. The best overall plan would include an increase in spending in all three branches because it takes a combination of all three to make up our criminal justice

Police Department (SCPD), which has less than 100 sworn officers in a town of 56,000 residents,

Most would agree that departments need more funding. However, there are discrepancies regarding where to place these funds. "Police

Chapter one helped clarify grant terminology that I may run into while conducting grant research and filling out grant applications. I found this useful because I now have a better understanding of what certain grants are looking for and the grant language that is needed. This chapter also helped me learn how to set up a plan for keeping track of the grants I am working on and helped set up the process. The second chapter goes over how to create and complete funding plans for each grant. It stresses that without a plan it is difficult to have a successful grant process. This chapter has useful suggestions on what to look for within an organization to decide where funding is needed. The third

On the other hand, random patrols of the streets is the older method in preventing crime in geographical locations. The random patrol of the streets was set for pre-determined pattern of crime in design locations. After repeated research of this method alone, it has been address the method demonstrates how deployment models have been repeatedly use to access the quality of district designs, without the suggested method of optimally determining those designs. According to (Karen, 2007), there were more issues that occur when given combinatorial complexity of deployment solution procedure; when information technology were not involved. Dating back 15 years before 2004, less optimal determination of patrol areas were directed when police make calls for design patrol areas, in maximal coverage and backup when crime occurred (Karen, 2007).

Over the last several years, most police departments have been facing numerous financial challenges. The main reason is law enforcement agencies are expected to do more with less and the stagnant economy. The combination of these factors has been placing pressure on many departments to begin imposing budget cuts. Evidence of this can be seen with a survey that was conducted by the University of North Carolina. They found that 67% of police departments made some kind of budget cuts for 2011. The most severe reductions were occurring in large police departments such as Los Angeles, Atlanta and Detroit. (Delfem, 2011, pp. 199 - 205) This is illustrating one of the most pressing issues affecting a wide variety of police departments across the country. To fully understand what is happening requires: examining the situation, how they are able to interact with other agencies (i.e. state / federal) and recommending the way this relationship can be improved. Together, these elements will offer specific insights about how police departments can effectively address this problem.

The following sample Request for Proposal (RFP) was provided by NPower Seattle. Please note that the project described here is for example only and should not be reused verbatim. For more information on how to build an effect RFP, please see TechSoup's RFP Library at: http://www.techsoup.org/emcf/rfp Copyright 2003 NPower Seattle. All rights reserved.