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We also believe it is when not if and we are prepping for next year

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We believe we will uniquely position ourselves a year from now on how to apply and develop an application as we will have better understanding of needs and a collaboration of partners and MOUs

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The language on the federal register and other materials were often dense, inaccessible, and full of jargon.

One example was the definition of Competitive Priority, I think 3. It was one long sentence and very difficult to understand.

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The timing. Our school year starts in September and funding will start in January. Our fiscal year ends June 30th. Would be great if grants could become due in the winter and funds available for the start of the school year with time to plan in between. 

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The timing. Our school year starts in September and funding will start in January. Our fiscal year ends June 30th. Would be great if grants could become due in the winter and funds available for the start of the school year with time to plan in between. 

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I believe collaborating with other Full-Service Community Hubs has been a key cross-functionality.

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Addressing indicators that do not have publicly available data.

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Addressing indicators that do not have publicly available data.

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For us, it was formulating the objectives based on the priorities outlined by the respective grant. 

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For us, it was formulating the objectives based on the priorities outlined by the respective grant. 

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The Team would have liked to see more specifics and measurables, which left grey areas for understanding what was needed.

Challenges was the time. If a applicant never had a Community School one month was far too short of a timeline without have a true understanding of school needs as they change year to year.

I would also see more technical support or webinars of what right looks like.

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The process of setting up accounts and accessing workspaces on grants.gov was difficult–it required at least three or four calls to customer service. That being said, the customer service agents were friendly and helpful, and the calls didn’t take long

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We were purposeful about using opportunity to add depth to existing work rather than to launch. We'll continue our work at a slower pace

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NJ legislature is moving a 21-site community schools bill...a variation of the now 5-year-old 50-site community schools bill. Hopefully, that will come through.

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Input from the Director of Student and Family Support Services at Student U. An organization that takes a whole family approach and provides student and family-led advocacy.

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Input from the Director of Student and Family Support Services at Student U. An organization that takes a whole family approach and provides student and family-led advocacy.

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We supported the evaluation plans for 3 full service applications this year and advised on a 4th. The addition this year of a large set new performance indicators outlining a wide domain of school-level outcome metrics was quite challenging and seemed misaligned with how each Initiative was conceptualizing their unique approach to implementing the FSCS strategy in their context. Evaluation resources will need to be dedicated to collecting and reporting on these metrics in addition to the adoption of evaluation approaches specific to each unique initiative. It feels like the Department overreached on this front.

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Grant Competition Brief Overview & DOE Slides accompanying NIA, final definitions, and Absolute Priorities webinars were helpful

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Your support was invaluable

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We had great, quick support from ED. So appreciated the quick turn around on our questions. And Ryan, I can't thank you and Mary enough for the last minute guidance and pep talk.

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It was difficult to see the whole picture
Workshops were great but could have:
1. Walked thru an application
2. Walked through a budget

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We will move forward, but much more slowly. We need to raise funds from individual donors to be able to hire a FSCS Coordinator and fill other critical roles like benefits navigators and behavioral health counselors. 

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We will move forward, but much more slowly. We need to raise funds from individual donors to be able to hire a FSCS Coordinator and fill other critical roles like benefits navigators and behavioral health counselors. 

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We wrote a grant that included 4 schools districts/8 schools and a TAC. The size was onerous and the application felt geared to a single district or lead agency.

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appreciate the flexibility but it was so flexible it was hard to know what was actually required (eg, the 14 performance indicators)

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The webinars were good! I didn't realize we could have called an actual person though to get support. Shoot! 

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The webinars were good! I didn't realize we could have called an actual person though to get support. Shoot! 

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I believe there were great examples of successful grants provided for applicants.

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I believe there were great examples of successful grants provided for applicants.

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We really liked that ED was specific about maintaining fidelity to the model and to the 4 pillars.

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The Quality of the Project Services section was confusing. The explanation of talking about DEI here didn't make sense, so we weren't sure what to put in there. 

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The Quality of the Project Services section was confusing. The explanation of talking about DEI here didn't make sense, so we weren't sure what to put in there. 

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Topic-specific webinars were helpful (eg, evaluation, budgets)

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Community workspace
CCCS/IEDLs support
Timeline

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There were many different places to find all the instructions we needed. At one point a day before it was due, we found that the Quality of Mgmt Plan was 25 points, though earlier it had been published that it was 15. 

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There were many different places to find all the instructions we needed. At one point a day before it was due, we found that the Quality of Mgmt Plan was 25 points, though earlier it had been published that it was 15. 