after school and batted women and children ,i need to know how to open a place like that?

Question

i live in a city where they do not have many after school programs and also programs for batted women and children if i was to open one do you know how i would go about getting grants for that program

Answer 1

I have done some looking around on the Internet concerning grant writing and the foundations who make grants, and I will say that the very first thing you need to do is learn to spell the words you must use to write your proposal. It must sound professional.

I am guessing, but I think you wanted to talk about BATTERED women, not "batted," although what some men do with baseball bats is too horrible to contemplate.

Grant proposals must be written in the very, very most precise and business-like English possible, because the foundations need to know that the people to whom they give their grants actually can and will do what they say they want to do with the grant. You should get through at least a two-year school, and better a BA, before you attempt to run a non-profit organization and take this seriously as a full-time career. Once you have your shelter and day care for women and children, you will be involved at least eight hours a day, and probably more. It is very possible you will need to live there yourself.

This would take not only superior office management and administrative skills, but the ability to get down on the details of maintenance of the structure. Many such shelters are rebuilt from some other sort of use -- an old hotel or motel, perhaps, or an old school building -- and there will be considerable work involved in renovating it to your purposes and in maintaining it once it is in place.

It's a lot of work, and you couldn't do it all alone. Do you have a self-help group that is ready to make a serious commitment to all that work, and probably get lower salaries than they could get if they joined the for-profit world? And you will need volunteers, too; people who can afford to donate their time instead of needing a salary.

If you do, then surf the Internet for all the help you can get finding the right foundation(s) to which to apply for grant money, and making that application with enough professional attention to detail to be taken seriously and perhaps granted a chance to make it all happen.

Good luck! It's a tough life, but potentially a very rewarding one.

Answer 2

I think you mean battered women, as in victims of domestic violence. Contact the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence or your state coalition against domestic violence. I used to work in a battered women's shelter. It's a lot of hard work to get and keep funding. Plus, you have to be trained to deal with some very specific issues. God bless you in your endeavors.

Answer 3

get in contact with your family and children services they should be able to point you in the right direction. what a great idea good luck to you

Answer 4

It Battered not batted.