Fire Act Grant Round 34 and NO Minnesota Awards
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grants to fire departments this week in round thirty four of the fiscal
year 2003 Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) Program. Since June of
2003, almost 8500 fire departments have now received over $679 million
to support their role as first responders in the neighborhoods and
communities they serve as firefighters.
http://minnesotafireservice.com/
State Fire-EMS-Rescue Schools
March
is approaching fast and that means that the two day weekend schools
will be starting. The first school this year is in North Mankato on
March 6th and 7th, and they already close to 700 hundred students
signed up.
Some of the colleges are just getting there poster out and some have information on-lne this year.
Check the training calendar for dates, locations and links to web sites.
March 13-14, 2004
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at East Grand Forks Tech College in East Grand Forks, MN
March 20-21, 2004
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at Detroit Lakes Tech College in Detroit Lakes, MN
March 27-28, 2004
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at the DECC in Duluth, MN
April 3-4, 2004
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at Riverland College in Rochester, MN
April 17-18, 2004
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at Redwood Falls High School in Redwood Falls, MN
April 24-25, 2004
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at Central Lakes College in Brainerd, MN
April 30 May 1-2, 2004 (3 days)
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at Best Western Thunderbird Hotel
& Convention Center 2201 East 78th Street, Bloomington MN 55425-1228
September 18-19, 2004
Minnesota Fire-EMS-Rescue School held at Mesabi Range Community and Technical College in Virginia, MN.
http://minnesotafireservice.com/greensheet2003-04.html
Grant Workshops Continue on Monday Feb 23rd In Willmar
2004
Fire Act Grant Workshops have been going well dispite the snow. I have
posted the powerpoint program on the web site and pay attention to the
speakers notes below the slide for additional information.
On Monday I'll post the 2004 Program Guidance with high lighted points along with narrative information.
I have been told that the same questions that were used last year will be used again for the narrative.
The narrative must describe your planned project. The narrative portion
of your application should provide the details of activities you
propose to be funded, including budget details for each of your
activities. It should describe the financial need of your fire
department and elaborate on the benefits your community and/or fire
department will gain from the expenditure of the grant funds.
The three key factors that reviewers look for are:
1. a clear description of the requested program and its budget;
2. financial need on the part of the department; and
3. a lot of benefit for the cost of your project,
Type your narrative offline in any word processing software, such as
Word, Word Perfect, Notepad, etc. Once your narrative is complete, you
can copy it or “copy-and-paste” it from your word-processing document
into the narrative block in the application. Space for the narrative is
limited, so your narrative should not exceed five pages. Do not type
your narrative entirely in capital letters.
http://minnesotafireservice.com/grantmenu.html
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Solve your morale problems!
Your
firefighters maybe bored because of nothing to do and the public
doesn't recognize them as heroes. Get them involved in public education
and fire prevention activities where they are helping the public. It
won't be long and they will become recognized hero’s for saving lives
in a proactive way.
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