How to Apply for Funding

Susan G. Komen for the Cure, 2012-2013 Grant Process

The process for applying for a Komen Community Grant was covered at a Grants Workshop meeting held on November 15. Click here to access the Powerpoint presentation.

The first step in applying for a Community Grant is to complete a Letter of Inquiry (LOI) in which the deadline for submission is on Tuesday, December 6, 2011 at 4 p.m.

Notifications for applicants who are selected to move forward with the Request for Application (RFA) process and also those applicants who have not been chosen will be notified on Friday, December 16, 2011.  

The RFA will be due Friday, January 6, 2012. Only organizations who have received notification to proceed onto the RFA Process are to submit a full grant application.

The RFA and all attachments as well as the 2011 Community Profile and Continuum of Care Model are as follows:

Request for Application (RFA)
Attachments:
RFA Submission Checklist
Grant Cover Page
Project Work Plan
Project Budget Form
Sample Project Budget Form
Budget Justification Narrative
Other Funding Sources
Organizational Capacity Form

Continuum of Care Model
2011 Community Profile

Questions/Answers from the
Grants Workshop on 11/15/11 & also additional
questions received since the workshop.
(UPDATED 12/5/11)

No additional questions will be received after 12/5 at noon.

Q:        Will all the information from today be posted on the SD Komen website?
A:         Yes, all the information including the Letter of Inquiry (LOI), the Request for Applications (RFA), all attachments, the 2011 Community Profile,  and today’s PowerPoint presentation.

Q:        For the LOI, will a full memorandum of understanding (MOU) be required?
A:        No, just for the RFA (if applicable).

Q:        Are multiple submissions allowed from a single organization?
A:         Yes, and they can even be for the same priority areas as long as the ideas are different. But, each submission must have its own LOI even if from the same organization.

Q:        Does Komen allow for fiscal sponsors?
A:        Yes

Q:        What is meant by “being in good standing?"
A:         It means that there are no outstanding (red flag) financial or other issues such as the program director’s credentials being in jeopardy.

Q:        For those who have had previous Komen grants history, how much detail on that history is required to be provided?
A:         Please list any issues with performance such as late reports, poor performance, or funding issues.

Q:        Komen asks that we partner with other organizations. Do you recommend how many partners we should have?
A:        You should choose however many partners make sense for your project. At the minimum, you should think about partners before and after your stage in the continuum.

Q:        How much financial disclosure is required if we are an individual entity as part of a larger organization?
A:        Please just provide information on your individual entity.

Q:        It didn't appear to us that treatment services are fundable, such as consultation and/or surgery with a breast surgeon (e.g., lumpectomy, mastectomy). Is that correct? If these services are fundable, under what priority would it fall?
A:         They fall under priority area #2 “Access to Diagnostic Services”. For this priority area, these services are required to be site-neutral therefore available and accessible to everyone in San Diego County.

Q:        If we are interested in submitting an LOI for activities under 4b and 4c, would that be two LOIs or just one under the priority of #4?
A:        Two separate Letter of Intents. Note 4B and 4C are categories unto themselves.

Q:        The Letter of Intent states that we should submit an electronic and a signed original hard copy by 4:00pm Dec. 6th. Is it okay to hand deliver the hard copy on that day to your office (unless we put it in the mail the day before overnight express or a few days before to be sure it arrives by that time/date)? The electronic copy we will of course email by that time/date. 
A:         Yes, it is OK to hand-deliver the signed original hard copy to our office before 4:00 December 6^th. 

Q:        As a clinic that serves only Native Americans excluding our Mobile Mammography that opens up to a broader population, do we need to be site-neutral to apply for this grant.  What is site neutral?
A:         It depends on which priority area you have chosen. Note not all of the priority areas are site-neutral. Site-neutral means it is available and accessible to everyone in San Diego County.

A:         The Community Profile 2011 does not include Native Americans.   Other than the statistics that I keep for our clinic, is there any other statistics that I can use in my application that refers to Native Americans? There are statistics on the following website for the California Pan-Ethnic Health Network at http://www.cpehn.org/resources.php that may be useful to you.

Q:        Do I need to attach letters of support to the application?
A:        For the Letter of Inquiry, no letters of collaboration are required. In the Letter of Inquiry, we are asking that the partnership section be addressed. If one is asked to proceed with the Request for Application, the letters of Collaboration will be required. 

Q:        The question I have is since it says site neutral - what does that mean? 
A:         Site-neutral means it is available and accessible to everyone in San Diego County.

Q:        Basically, I guess what I need to know is Priority 4a - for patient services?
A:        Priority 4a is for a patient navigation program to service all of San Diego County and that is site-neutral.  

Q:        The program I am writing for has a clinic location where they screen the women and the mammography is done at XXX Hosptial.  Would that work?  They have a patient load primarily from the XXX County but do not turn away people if from a different area. Would priority 2A or 4A possibly work?
A:         Priority 2A and 4A are site-neutral and must service all of San Diego County. If Education and Outreach are your focus, then 5A could be the priority area.

Q:        Which priority areas are site-neutral?
A:         >2A which is Access to Diagnostic Services
            >3A which provides a site-neutral Patient Navigation Program
            >4A which is funding of financial support

Q:        For 4C, can this include any patient costs such as lymphedema or transportation?
A:         Yes

Q:        Regarding page 6 of the LOI:  Breast Health Program Annual Budget (Total should include all funding streams).  Are grants considered part of the funding stream?
A:         Yes, include all funding streams for the 2012-2013 grant period.

Q:         What are the expectations of the Continuum of Care Grant?  Will there be multiple grants in this category?  If so, will they be awarded for different areas? 
A:         This is one grant to be awarded for this category to address all of San Diego County.

Q:        Can we mail in our hard copy on 12/6/11?
A:         All hard copies must be received in our Komen office by 4:00 on 12/6/11.

Funding decisions for 2012-2013 selected Grantees will be notified on February 23. 2012.

Thank you for your interest in the 2012-2013 grants cycle.