| Agenda
and Speaking Faculty |
| Day
One:
November 15,
2004 |
|
Pre-Conference
Application Workshops |
| 8:30 |
Registration
and Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Workshop
A: DHS Equipment Grants
Purchasing new equipment to update or replace aging apparatuses
is an expensive and costly process. With the recent increase in
security measures over the past few years, the Department of Homeland
Security offers various grant options to assist emergency departments
in acquiring new tools, resources, and training. This workshop illustrates
the different options out there and highlights the process to apply
for those grants.
•
Identify programs involving interoperability between federal and
local response agencies in times of crisis
•
Discover funds earmarked for equipment purchases and training in
how to use the equipment properly for first responders
•
Secure the portion of DHS funds available to help offset the cost
associated with enhanced security measures deployed under heightened
threat levels
|
| 11:30 |
Networking
Luncheon |
| 12:30 |
Workshop
B: Grant Success for Smaller Municipalities
The vast majority of law enforcement officials in American serve
communities with a population less than fifty thousand. As such,
most departments deal with different circumstances, problems, and
pressures than their larger, more recognized counterparts. This
workshop focuses on educating smaller municipalities on how to increase
their opportunities at acquiring a larger share of the shrinking
grants available for law enforcement agencies.
•
Professionalize your grant applications and upgrade your grants
strategy
•
Learn about grant issues facing smaller municipalities and successful
strategies for dealing with them
•
Maximize your resources through multi-agency cooperation |
| 3:30 |
Adjourn
Day One |
|
Day Two: November 16, 2004 |
| 8:30 |
Registration & Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Keynote:
The New Grants Landscape
Grants and funding opportunities for law enforcement agencies are
changing every day. Federal funds are on the decline, agencies utilize
different vehicles to announce their grants solicitations, performance
measures are being written into grant requirements, and private
sector firms are offering equipment and software that can be used
by local and state law enforcement. These changes in the way that
grants are funded, announced, evaluated, and dispersed are continuing
to evolve.
|
| 10:00 |
Break
& Refreshments |
| 10:15 |
Grant
Success Strategies
• Isolate success factors that are universally applicable
for grant applications
• Develop a framework for your agency that allows you to maximize
application efficiency
• Examine grant application strategies that will get your
requests noticed |
| 11:15 |
Discover
Where to Find Grant Opportunities
• Identify where grants information is posted on agency websites
and newsletters
• Utilize the internet to streamline your grand identification
process
• Learn which public and private sector websites are clearinghouses
for grants and aid information |
| 12:00 |
Networking
Luncheon |
| 1:00 |
FEMA
Disaster Grants
• Discover how FEMA's Public Assistance Grant Program is designed
to provide federal assistance to state and local governments
• Attract resources to assist in response to disasters, recovery
from their impact, and to mitigate impact from future disasters
• Learn about state and local roles and responsibilities in
the Public Assistance Program
|
| 2:00 |
Sex
Crimes Response Grants
• Secure grants to cover training for legislatively-mandated
Amber Alert training and Megan’s Law registration activities
• Utilize new federal funding to assist in the formation of
dedicated sex crimes response units
• Attract federal funding to cover training and other resources
for sex crimes response |
| 3:00 |
Break
& Refreshments |
| 3:15 |
White
Collar Crime Grants
• Acquire best practices and strategies to improve your
success rate in finding, winning and managing grants to subsidize
white collar crime initiatives
• Fund the creation of and training for technology and white
collar crime response units
• Equip your taskforce through federal technology assistance
grants
|
| 4:15 |
Adjourn
|
|
Day Three: November 16, 2004 |
| 8:30 |
Continental Breakfast |
| 9:00 |
Incorporating
Performance Measures into Your Grant
Management
• Measure your performance in target areas in order to validate
departmental goals and funding
• Learn the mandates dictated in grant solicitations through
effective performance measures
• Identify areas where performance measures can demonstrate
competency in key issue areas
|
| 9:30 |
Managing
Your Grants
• Ensure that the grants and funding that your department
receives are properly managed
• Maximize your grants with sound financial management that
demonstrate your results to the public and to grant providers
• Spend your hard-earned dollars efficiently and effectively
|
| 10:15 |
Morning
Break |
| 10:30 |
Administering
Grants According to your Strategic Plan
• Use a strategic planning model to maximize efficiency for
grant administration
• Utilize specific strategies to meet the goals and objectives
defined by your agency
• Develop action plans and program evaluations to demonstrate
your results
|
| 11:15 |
Information
Technology Grants
• Identify and secure technology grants from public and private
sector sources
• Locate potential sources of surplus equipment from the public
sector and donated equipment from private entities
• Fund training in software and hardware to achieve self-sufficiency
after vendor service contracts expire
|
| 12:00 |
Networking
Luncheon |
| 1:00 |
Communications
Grants
• Recognize and receive funding to update communications and
networking capabilities within your region
• Create a communications hardware plan through public and
private sector equipment and funding opportunities
• Validate the need for updated communications equipment in
your proposals
|
| 2:00 |
Personnel
Management Grants
• Supplement your limited recruiting budget with federal diversity
funding
• Investigate federal programs such as the Universal Hiring
Program to assist in defraying the costs of training new hires
• Identify funding sources that are designed to get more uniformed
officers on the street
|
| 3:00 |
Break
& Refreshments |
| 3:00 |
Exchange
of Best Practices, Lessons Learned, and Helpful Hints
This wrap-up session is designed to pull together many of the topics
covered throughout the conference. It will be your opportunity to
ask unanswered questions, share insights, and to dialogue with speakers
and colleagues. This session will allow presenters to reiterate
important messages that can become an important part of your grants
strategy.
|
| 4:00 |
Adjourn
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