Community Economic Development (CED) Grantee Training Needs Assessment

Community Economic Development Grantee Training Needs Assessment

Welcome to the annual Community Economic Development (CED) Grantee Training Needs Assessment!

This is your opportunity to provide input on upcoming grantee training and technical assistance opportunities. This needs assessment should take you approximately 10-15 minutes to complete.

We will use the answers you provide to help shape the content of our annual grantee conference and virtual training opportunities and identify training and technical assistance topics most relevant to you as a CED grantee.

If you have any questions, please contact us at: OCSRegistrar@icf.com.

General Information

1. Please provide us with your information:

   1. Name:

   2. Title:

   3. Organization:

   4. CED Grant Number(s):

   5. Email:

2. What sector(s) does your CED project address? (select all that apply)

• Business incubator

• Healthy food (i.e., elimination of a food desert, healthy food retail, urban agriculture, etc.)

• Manufacturing

• Micro-lending/revolving loan

• Real estate

• Retail

• Services (i.e. child care, home health care, etc.)

• Social Enterprise

• Other (please specify):

Attendance/Expectations

3. Have you participated in or accessed any of the following training opportunities/resources for CED grantees? (select all that apply)

• Grantee Conference

• Live webinars

• Pre-recorded training videos/presentations

• Grantee conference call (i.e., a call focused on a specific topic or type of project)

• Guidance documents/tools/resources (i.e., written information that can be accessed as needed)

4. What are your primary goals or expectations for a grantee conference, webinar, or training? (select all that apply)

• Obtain information

• Develop skills

• Advance expertise

• Identify grants and resources for sustaining projects

• Network with presenters and grantees

• Other (please specify):

Training Format

5. Which training format(s) do you prefer? (select up to 2)

• CED Grantee Conference

• Live webinars

• Pre-recorded training videos/presentations

• Grantee conference call (i.e., a call focused on a specific topic or type of project)

• Guidance documents/tools/resources (i.e., written information that can be accessed as needed)

• Other (please specify):

Grants Management Topics

6. How interested are you in seeing the following grants management topics addressed as part of our annual conference or other training opportunities to help you successfully implement your grant?

	Very interested	Somewhat interested	Neutral	Somewhat uninterested	Not at all interested
Grants management, policies, procedures, and resources
Rules and regulations
Payment management information
Reporting and documentation requirements
Managing federal interest

Program Design Training Topics

7. How interested are you in seeing the following program design topics and skills addressed as part of our annual conference or other training opportunities to help you successfully implement your grant?

	Very interested	Somewhat interested	Neutral	Somewhat uninterested	Not at all interested
Managing a business plan
Market analysis
Program sustainability
Project evaluation
Recruiting low-income participants
Social enterprise projects
Sustaining jobs created
Board training/capacity building

Partnership/Collaboration Training Topics

8. How interested are you in seeing the following partnership and collaboration topics addressed as part of our annual conference or other training opportunities to help you successfully implement your grant?

	Very interested	Somewhat interested	Neutral	Somewhat uninterested	Not at all interested
Arranging and financing partnership/collaboration
Business, industry, and economic development
Identifying additional financing
Infrastructure and green building
Federal and private foundation economic development
Working with businesses
Working with financial institutions
Working with public officials/agencies
Working with State Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) offices

Community Development Topics

9. How interested are you in seeing the following community development topics addressed as part of our annual conference or as part of other training opportunities to help you successfully implement your grant?

	Very interested	Somewhat interested	Neutral	Somewhat uninterested	Not at all interested
Healthy food
Health disparities
Rural community development
Green jobs
Social justice
Services (i.e. child care, home health care, etc.)
Retail
Business incubation
Manufacturing
Micro-lending/revolving loan
Real estate
Financial literacy and asset accumulation for clients
Wraparound support services
Addressing substance abuse issues

Populations Served

10. Which of the following communities are you most interested in learning how to work with and address the needs of? (select up to 3)

• Low-income individuals

• TANF Recipients

• Child Support Enforcement Clients

• Immigrants

• Refugees

• Native-American communities

• Formerly incarcerated individuals

• Individuals with disabilities

• Homeless individuals

• Other (please specify):

Additional Comments

11. Are there any promising practices about your project that you would like to share with other grantees? For example: evaluation tools, systems for tracking low-income participants, managing grant funds, internal guidance, etc. Please describe the promising practice, reference any resources used to implement the practice, and explain how the practice impacted the project.

12. Are there any keynote or substantive speakers you would like to recommend and if so, why? Please provide the individual's contact information, if available.

13. Are there any training resources, including online resources, that you have found or used that you believe to be particularly helpful and that you would like other CED grantees to know about? If so, please list them here.

Thank you for your time and participation!

THE PAPERWORK REDUCTION ACT OF 1995 (Pub. L. 104-13) An agency may not conduct or sponsor, and a person is not required to respond to, a collection of information unless it displays a currently valid OMB control number. The control number for this project is 0970-0401. The control number expires on 5/31/2021.