OMB Control Number: 2030-0051
Expiration Date: 05/31/2024
In partnership with the U.S. Department of Energy, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency selected {Name of TCTAC} as one of the Thriving Communities Technical Assistance Centers (or TCTACs).
Our job is to remove barriers and improve accessibility help underserved and overburdened communities across the country. We will do this by providing training and other assistance to build capacity for navigating federal grant application systems, writing strong grant proposals, and effectively managing grant funding. In addition, we will provide guidance on community engagement, meeting facilitation, and translation and interpretation services for limited English-speaking participants.
Thank you for your participation in today’s focus group. We want to better understand how to best support you to navigate applying for and effectively managing federal grants.
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Discussion topics for focus groups:
Discussion on how satisfied the potential applicant is with the TCTAC services
Ease of accessing TCTAC services and obtaining timely responses
Usefulness of TCTAC services
Areas of improvement of TCTAC services, including additional services to offer
Discussion on environmental justice and energy justice challenges faced in the community
Historic and current challenges and solutions that work
Future challenges and ways to address those challenges
Technical assistance, training and support needs to address those challenges
Discussion on experience with federal grants
Experiences with federal grants
Barriers/Solutions to applying for federal grants
Barriers/Solutions to managing federal grants
Problems identified with the federal grants system and creative solutions
Discussion on approaches to strengthening knowledge and skills for applying and managing federal grants
Experience with training or knowledge/skills development programs
Knowledge and skills needed
Successful approaches to strengthen knowledge and skills
Services or products TCTACs could offer/develop
Discussion on outreach to potential program participants (i.e., people from communities with EJ concerns who may apply to federal grants)
Communication mechanisms to reach potential program participants for their awareness on TCTAC services
Ways to explain how to access to eligible services
Types of events or activities to reach potential program participants
Accessibility approaches to fully engage everyone
Ways to explain the TCTAC Program
Discussion on how to effectively engage with decisionmakers at all levels of government and private sector entities to inform policy development and program design and delivery
Successful experience with government agencies’ or private sector entities community engagement approaches
Ways to meaningfully engage with government agencies or private sector entities
Knowledge and skills needed
Successful approaches to strengthen knowledge and skills
Services or products TCACS could offer/develop
Discussion on how to engage community members
Experiences with leading community engagement and building partnerships and coalitions
Knowledge and skills needed
Successful approaches to strengthen knowledge and skills
Services or products TCTACs could offer/develop
Discussion about how to make accessible all the various federal grants for environmental justice and energy justice projects
How to communicate this information in organized and accessible ways
Services or products TCTAC could offer/develop
Discussion on finding and understanding financing options for pursuing environmental justice and energy justice projects
Partnership opportunities
Ways to minimize duplication of efforts with federally funded programs
Services or products TCACS could offer/develop
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