Your strategic plan will identify your organization’s key priorities and can help focus and prioritize limited resources. Creating measurable goals and an implementation plan can then help you track and evaluate your progress.

Your fund development plan should align with your strategic plan, include strategies for raising revenues from a variety of sources, and identify targets and goals to measure your success. It can also help you determine how to effectively deploy your dollars, staff, board and volunteer time to maximize the funds your raise.

TAG dollars may be used to help you assess the likelihood of success of a capital campaign, and the amount you can expect to raise from donors.

Your marketing/communications plan can help you better understand your target audiences, and determine how to deploy your dollars as well as your staff, board and volunteer time to attract and retain these audiences. Your plan may include branding and communications strategy, including media relations and crisis communications.  Your plan should include goals, specific strategies and messaging that align with your strategic plan, and targets and goals to measure your success.

 

TAGs may be used to help build or strengthen your human resources function and address key HR systems and processes. Projects may include, but are not limited to:

• A human resources audit, which allows you to better understand your current HR systems, processes, staffing and funding, and identify improvements
• Revision or development of an employee policies and practices handbook, along with an implementation plan
• Development or enhancement of an employee performance review system and process
• Enhancement or revision of employee job descriptions
• Creation or refinement of an employee salary and/or compensation plan
• Training and or executive coaching for staff supervisors
• Staff development, i.e., workshops on team building

TAG dollars may be used to hire a consultant to facilitate the board and staff through an analysis and exploration or implementation of an alliance or merger with another organization(s).

Evaluation Capacity Grants of up to $15,000 are available to assist with developing or implementing a program or organizational evaluation project or plan, or integrating evaluative thinking into organizational practice.

An executive coach of your choosing can help executive directors/CEOs to be optimally effective in their roles and enhance their abilities and adaptability.

A seasoned consultant of your choosing can help the board to become more effective, forge a strong and successful partnership with the CEO, and help individual members to better understand their roles.

Technical Assistance Grants (TAGs) are reviewed individually. Statewide agencies or those serving a region beyond Greater Hartford are eligible to apply for an amount that is proportional to the percentage of services provided in the Hartford Foundation’s region.

TAG dollars may only be used to pay for a consultant’s time and may not be used to pay for services delivered prior to grant approval.

You must compare at least two consultants and submit at least two different proposals with your application.

These Technical Assistance Grant (TAG) reports are for agencies that have received TAGs and are in the process of submitting payment requests.

When your project is at the mid-way point, please submit a letter requesting your interim payment along with a copy of your consultant’s invoice(s) and a completed Interim Project Report. When your project is complete, please submit a letter requesting final payment along with a copy of your consultant’s final invoice, written plan, and Final Project Report.

If your TAG included implementation services, when this work has been completed, please submit your consultant's invoice along with a completed Final Implementation Report.

Download these reports:

Please select a report below to download as a Microsoft Word document. Save the document to your computer and follow the instructions on the first page for completing and submitting the report.

• Interim Project Report (Word, 203 KB) - to be submitted with your first payment request
• Final Project Report (Word, 222 KB) - to be submitted with your final payment request
• Final Implementation Report (Word, 203 KB) - to be submitted with your implementation payment request

Please submit all questions, reports, and payment requests to GrantsAdministration@hfpg.org