1.  What does your office do?
2.  How do you know if you are eligible for ccs assistance?
3.  What services do you provide?
4.  What is the cost of the service? If our grant got funded, do you get a share?
5.  Who writes the proposal?
6.  How do we get started?
7.  How many grants can you write for our CBO?
8.  How long does it  take to get help from CCS?
9.  What can our CBO do to help to get a successful grant?
 

 1. What does your office do?

The Center for Community Support (CCS) provides a broad range of information, data, and proposal writing services for Texas community based non-profit organizations at no cost. 

 2. How do you know if you are eligible?

Texas community-based public or private non-profit organizations(CBO) operating in Texas are all eligible for the CCS services. Please see eligibility criteria link for more about this.

 3. What Services do you provide?

The services CCS provides include Literature Review, Bibliographical Search, Funding Search, State and Local Statistics, New Data Generation, Needs Assesment, Proposal Writing, and Proposal Review. See CCS activities and services for more details.

 4. What is the cost of the services? If our grant got funded, do you get share?

The services are free to all non-profit organization in Texas through the support of TEES and the Texas legislature. Even upon receipt of a grant, we do not take any portion of that grant.

 5. Who writes the proposal?

The proposal is written in partnership with a CCS grant writer and the representative(s) of the community-based organization.

 6. How to get started?

     a. Register with the CCS either over the web or writing.
     b. Determine what project your organization wants to start.
     c. Contact CCS for funding search and other services.

 7. How many grants can you write for one CBO?

•  Normally, one at a time.
•  Hopefully, after developing a proposal together, the CBO will feel confident in their own grant-writing abilities.

 8. How long does it take to get help from CCS?

It depends on what kind of service or help you need, and depends on our workload. For example, data service, usually takes about one week; funding search, usually takes about two weeks. As for grant writing, it may take months or even longer.

The types of grants we write depend on such factors as community based organization's (CBO) eligibility, our expertise and our workload. Because finding funds and developing a proposal may take months, we like to focus on projects that are good prospects and develop long-term relationships until funding is secured. In helping communities, we consider the following:

• Does the grant opportunity meet the demonstrated needs of the community or group?
• Does the organization have sufficient expertise to develop the proposal independently?
• If awarded, does the organization have sufficient resources to administer the grant? And 
• Does the proposal topic fit within the range of expertise?

 9. What can our CBO do to help to get a successful grant?

The process of looking for funding and writing a grant proposal for your project can seem very intimidating, especially if you have never done either one. But it doesn't have to be that way. It's all in the preparation and the homework.

Before you begin, you must know every possible nuance of your project-- the who, what, when, where and how much. It is not enough to say, "We want to provide after-school services to youth." You need to be able to say who "we" is, what kind of services, to what youth, where and why. You should answer every possible question that may be generated by that initial statement. 

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