DO NOT include or format an APA-compliant title page or abstract just use the format of the template. I would prefer you omit re-typing out the non-bolded descriptive instructions of each caption, e.g., "List the community's name and state (Your community will be…”, but you may include them if you wish. Use the bolded and underlined headings and sub-headings contained in the outline (e.g., "Community Description", “Complete Description of Location and Boundaries”, etc.). Use the “Course Project EOC Grant Outline” as the format of your various “Course Project Part” Assignments, and your “Course Project Final Submission”.
As an example, your community should be sufficient to allow for a meaningful and robust discussion of its vulnerable critical infrastructure features in Part D. Your community should be large and complex enough to afford you the opportunity to fully develop the various components included in the EOC Grant Outlinewhich we will use in this course. The locality should be an entity appropriate as an applicant for a federal grant for the funding of an Emergency Operations Center.
Your community should be a political subdivision such as a county, parish, or large city. Read this carefully: You will select a locality to use as the subject of your grant application. I am providing a submission document for your use in the course documents that is highly simplified from the normal federal documents. You may think that eight weeks is not enough time for something like this but often federal grants open and close in an even shorter period of time.
Your Course Project Final Submission, due Week 8, will be a cumulative document containing Parts A through D, revised as warranted in light of Instructor feedback and your further reflection, plus two other sections to be assigned later in the course. The majority of the Course Project has been divided into four component parts, Parts “A” through “D”, which you will be assigned during Weeks 1,2,3, and 5, respectively. I may amend that methodology slightly as the course progresses.ĭO NOT interview human sources as part of your research. This is an individual assignment and you have been tasked with submitting this with no assistance.
You are writing a grant proposal for the FEMA FY 2009 Emergency Operations Center Grant Program as found in the Fiscal Year 2009 Emergency Operations Center Guidance and Application Kit at FY09 EOC Guidance . I will comment and review (grade) your submissions. I am your FEMA contact on this, and I only have grades to give out, no money. These are based around the application for a grant for improving your EOC (Emergency Operations Center) from FEMA (Federal Emergency Management Agency).
It is an opportunity for you to actually perform a ( much) reduced series of tasks that are often part of the duties of an emergency manager, that is, risk and threat assessments and preparation of grant documents. This course project acts as a final examination as well as a learning experience.
Overview: As an emergency manager, one of your major duties will be to research and apply for grant monies in order to fund various tasks and initiatives to protect your community. For this part you are to develop the following information for your community: ? What is the climate and weather found in your community? Describe the Topography of your community? (Include anything that might be a particular hazard) ? What is the population and demographics for your community? Are there any ethnic or other groups that might be either a particular risk or at risk from a threat group?įor this you will utilize MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL This assignment will continue the research necessary for your final assignment. Much of this is developed from the community's threat assessment and identification of critical infrastructures and key resources. For this part you are to develop the following information for your community: ? The community's name (a community can be apolitical subdivision, a military base, or even a local event) ? Community boundaries (Make these as clear as possible and identifiable on a map) ? Why does that community exist? (Detail the reason for being a community, Tourism, Agriculture, Services, Commuting, Education, etc.)Ĭourse Project Part B: When applying for most Federal and State programs and grants you are required to submit a great deal of detailed information on your community. This assignment will start the research necessary for your final assignment. Course Project Part A: When applying for most Federal and State programs and grants you are required to submit a great deal of detailed information on your community.