CES has a Development department that coordinates, assists and supports agency staff, departments and programs in identifying, pursuing, and submitting proposals for grants of all kinds, as well as documenting and recording all grant, RFR and fundraising or donations activity.
The Development department is managed by the Director of Development, Isolda Ortega-Bustamante (iortegabustamante@collaborative.org).
Our Development Specialist, supporting all functions of the department, is Crystal Colon. (ccolon@collaborative.org) .
Grants Process:
Deciding to pursue a funding opportunity, and the application process, involves all members of the team including designees from the program or department leading the project. There is a formal Grants Process, approved by the CES Cabinet, that supports our ability as an agency to pursue multiple grants at a time in the most efficient and successful way possible. To learn about the process, please review the document linked below.
Grant Seeking/Competitive Bid Process
Initial Request for Funding Project:
New requests for funding for specific programs or needs come from all over the agency, as well as ideas for new sources of funding. Whether it’s a grant program that you’ve learned about, or a way to get donations (like donor web pages, or Education Express), anyone desiring to pursue a funding initiative must first contact the Director of Development to begin the project. To initiate the project, whether you have a specific source of funding in mind or don’t yet know of a source, you should complete the short form available at this link:
Documenting Grant Activity:
The majority of source documents and both working and final versions of submissions and proposals are typically housed in the Google Drive, inside multiple CES Grants folders. The project coordinator and/or team at the department/program level will have access to these folders and files as they create the needed documents to apply for the grant.
Data about Grants in progress is also recorded in the Salesforce System, on the Grants tab. Posts and notifications may be entered into the Salesforce grant record by members of the project team pursuing the grant, as a preferred way to share information with each-other.
ALL AND ANY DONATIONS TO CES Programs or Departments must be documented by the Development Department, for compliance and management purposes. If you get a donation, either monetary or in-kind, you will need to let us know the details so that the donation can be recorded and the donor receives the required thank you and documentation from CES.
