...Date: 9/9/2012 To: Emmett Rodriguez, CEO of Expressions of Hue Cc: Audra Rodriguez, Human Resources Manager From: Amanda Maybery, Payroll Specialist and Project Manager RE: Tuition Reimbursement Request for Business Communications Course Having the knowledge and training to get a job done is essential for an employee to thrive and flourish in the workplace. It is for this reason that I am interested pursuing higher education in the field of Management. I would like to request tuition reimbursement for a course offered by Kaplan University called Business Communications. I believe that Expressions of Hue and its employees would greatly benefit from this particular course. This course directly correlates with my current position as a Payroll Specialist and Project Manager. As a Payroll Specialist and Project Manager (PSPM) for Expressions of Hue, I am responsible for communicating effectively with customers, co-workers and independent business owners during the bidding process through e-mail, letters, and memos on a daily basis. This memo represents the results of my research and findings as to why tuition reimbursement would be cost effective and efficient for the company. What Are the Advantages? Tuition reimbursement offers several important advantages: • The skills learned and practice during the course will increase the level of productivity at work. • By further expanding my education and obtaining an advanced...
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...Memo To: Edward Nelson, Executive Director From: Tabatha Monroe, Librarian Date: Monday, September 10, 2012 Subject: Request for Professional Development Funding I am writing this memorandum to request Kaplan College to sponsor a Business Writing course that I wish to enroll in at the University of Miami. I spend a fair amount of time at work communicating via emails, notes, letters, and reports and many of these documents are read by our internal and external customers. And I believe that a Business Writing course will improve not only my job skills, but productivity as well. In my current position as a librarian, I am responsible for communicating with students, faculty and staff members, publishers, and vendors about academic issues on a daily basis using email, memos, and reports. I also compose, edit and publish user guides with instructions on how to access and use various library resources. And I annually submit a report that provides details on how the learning resource center is complying with federal and SACS regulations. By focusing on the particular types of documents that I use on a daily basis, this course will help me to improve the skills needed to write and edit business documents that are concise, correct, and clear. This course will assist me in developing my business writing skills that will allow me to better meet the needs of this organization through effective communication. After this course, my productivity will increase...
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...| |DS Information Systems Corporation | Memo To: From: Date: December 31, 2013 Subject: Funding Request for Business Writing Course As a Network System Administrator, I often send e-mails to various organizations at Nellis AFB and I am frequently asked to write memos, official letters, reports and briefings on the various projects our company is involved with. Currently, all of this work has to get reviewed by our site lead to ensure that it is error free, which sometimes causes massive overhead and late submissions. There is a refresher Business Writing course taught at the local community college that addresses all the training required to accomplish our company’s writing needs. I am interested in attending this class and would like to request funding to do so. Currently, we have a Technical Education account that covers expenses for classes that help acquire technical certifications. I would like to extend the account to cover courses similar to this writing one because I feel it will directly benefit our technical communications. It will strengthen my ability to communicate effectively on the job by teaching me how to compose messages using a structured business writing process. My ultimate goal is to alleviate some of the time constraint that is put on our site lead when he has numerous business documents to review. ...
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...How To Prepare and Present a Successful Business Funding Request EVERY BUSINESS NEEDS CAPITAL Successful businesses are well planned and well capitalized. Being well capitalized means having the ability to access capital when your business needs it. Being well planned is the first step towards being well capitalized. The Cost of Capital I have watched many entrepreneurs lose valuable opportunities because they thought the cost of capital was too high. They spent too much time negotiating over the cost of the money, while their window of opportunity closed. The cost of capital should only be a consideration of the function of losses sustained by not having it. Simply put, if it costs you one dollar in order to make two, are you ahead or behind? What this book will do for you The objectives of this book are to help you • Analyze your market, the competition, and your financials, • Identify your strengths, weaknesses, and strategies, • Establish how much money you will need and when, • Determine the type of capital you will most likely qualify for, • Define what information you need to present to Lenders or Investors, • Package your request for your best chance of success, • Establish the format and flow of your presentation, • Direct you to the Funding Sources that offer exactly what you need, (If you don't know where to send your request, what is the point of all this?) Libraries and bookstores are full of financial "How To Books" and I highly recommend you read as many as...
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...products by any person or entity. Please be advised that decisions regarding Charitable | |Giving are made by a Charitable Giving Committee. Any communication from any person other than an approved representative of the | |Charitable Giving Committee regarding a request or proposal for Charitable Giving, including, but not limited to, a commitment of| |funds, is not authorized or binding upon Bristol-Myers Squibb. | | | |Bristol-Myers Squibb will generally process requests in the order in which completed applications are received. To ensure prompt | |processing of your request, please make sure that all questions are completed and all supplementary materials are provided. | |Requests are generally processed within eight to twelve (8 - 12) weeks of receiving a completed application and all required | |supplementary materials. PLEASE BE AWARE, HOWEVER, THAT BRISTOL-MYERS SQUIBB DOES NOT COMMIT TO PROCESS ANY REQUEST WITHIN ANY | |SPECIFIC TIME PERIOD. To maximize our ability to process your grant request within your required time frame, please submit your |...
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...HSM/270 June 8, 2014 Fedder Williams Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Grant proposals are a crucial element within a human service organization for new programs to find and request financial funding from grantors. These grants come from a variety of sources which are usually to fund a specific target population program within an allotted time frame. For an organization to receive funding they must write and submit a grant proposal. A grant proposal is a written presentation of a program plan that is comprised of several different elements or components that include an abstract, table of contents, specific aims/background and significance/needs and problem statement, target population, approaches and methods, long and short-term goals, process/outcome and impact objectives, activity plans/scheduling (timeline), evaluation plan, agency capacity and project management, and a budget/budget justifications. The first step is to find an organization that shares the same mission with a published request for funding opportunities written by the grantor, also called an RFP (request for proposal) or RFA (request for application). Applicant agencies or organizations are given about six to eight weeks to respond to the RFP/RFA which details all major important information such as due dates, funding focus, eligibility, and the program type the grantor wishes to fund. Part one of the grant proposal is the table of contents. The table of contents is a guide for the reading audience...
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...questions below follow this format. 1. What is the purpose of this letter of intent? Whom is it being sent to, and what is the fit? 2. What year was our organization founded? What year was it incorporated? 3. What is the mission of our organization? 4. What are the long-term goals for our organization? 5. What programs do we provide that support these goals? 6. What community need are we seeking funding to address? 7. In our opinion, how is this need related to our programs, long-term goals, and mission? 8. What do we propose to do about this need? 9. What outcome do we anticipate after the first year of funding? 10. What is the total cost of our proposed idea for the first year, or multiple years if we plan to request multiple-year funding? How much do we want from this funder? 11. Who is contacting the funder to determine its interest and when? Whom must the funder contact for more information? B. Cover letter (limit one page) 1. The organization making the request 2. The support of the board of directors for the project 3. The specific financial request being made C. Title page (Please use this information to create a one-page cover sheet) Organization Name: ____________________________________________________________ Proposal Writers: ______________________________________________________________ Tax exempt status: ________________ Year organization was founded: __________________ Date of application: _____________________ Address: _________...
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...Wiley Publishing, Inc. 111 River St. Hoboken, NJ 07030-5774 www.wiley.com Copyright © 2009 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana Published simultaneously in Canada No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording, scanning, or otherwise, except as permitted under Sections 107 or 108 of the 1976 United States Copyright Act, without either the prior written permission of the Publisher, or authorization through payment of the appropriate per-copy fee to the Copyright Clearance Center, 222 Rosewood Drive, Danvers, MA 01923, 978-750-8400, fax 978-646-8600. Requests to the Publisher for permission should e addressed to the Permissions Department, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 111 River Street, Hoboken, NJ 07030, (201) 748-6011, fax (201)748-6008, or online at http:// www.wiley.com/go/permissions. Trademarks: Wiley, the Wiley Publishing logo, For Dummies, the Dummies Man logo, A Reference for the Rest of Us!, The Dummies Way, Dummies Daily, The Fun and Easy Way, Dummies.com, Making Everything Easier, and related trade dress are trademarks or registered trademarks of John Wiley & Sons, Inc. and/ or its affiliates in the United States and other countries, and may not be used without written permission. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. Wiley Publishing, Inc., is not associated...
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...Example: Project Change Request Disclaimer: This example is based on the Project Management Improvement project, but is not necessarily an actual case for that project. |Project Name |Project Management Improvement, Phase 1 | |Project Manager |Person A |Organization |DoIT | |Requested by |Person A |Organization |DoIT | |Submitted by |Person A |Date Requested |11/29/06 | |Evaluated by |Person A |Date Evaluated |11/29/06 | | |Person B | | | | |Person C | | | |Decided by |Person B |Date Decided |11/29/06 | |Change Request Identification ...
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...HSM/270 June 8, 2014 Fedder Williams Steps to Writing a Grant Proposal Grant proposals are a crucial element within a human service organization for new programs to find and request financial funding from grantors. These grants come from a variety of sources which are usually to fund a specific target population program within an allotted time frame. For an organization to receive funding they must write and submit a grant proposal. A grant proposal is a written presentation of a program plan that is comprised of several different elements or components that include an abstract, table of contents, specific aims/background and significance/needs and problem statement, target population, approaches and methods, long and short-term goals, process/outcome and impact objectives, activity plans/scheduling (timeline), evaluation plan, agency capacity and project management, and a budget/budget justifications. The first step is to find an organization that shares the same mission with a published request for funding opportunities written by the grantor, also called an RFP (request for proposal) or RFA (request for application). Applicant agencies or organizations are given about six to eight weeks to respond to the RFP/RFA which details all major important information such as due dates, funding focus, eligibility, and the program type the grantor wishes to fund. Part one of the grant proposal is the table of contents. The table of contents is a guide for the reading audience...
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...com/bus-510-stayer/bus-510-week-6-assignment-3-researching-contacting-and-cultivating-potential-funders For this assignment, you will be describing methods for locating an individual to give funding, researching the individual donor, and writing a letter (two to three [2-3] pages) of request to an individual funding representative (donor). Refer to the basic proposal components discussed in Chapter 2 of the Geever textbook. This solicitation letter of request will require you to be concise, polite, informative, and more informal with a friendly tone and the right flow of information than a proposal. Use the Internet to locate sample letters of request and methods of researching individual donors. Write a four to six (4-6) page paper in which you: Assess existing or typical methods for locating an individual to provide funding. Create one (1) method for locating an individual to provide funding. (This method can be a hybrid of multiple methods or a completely new method.) Evaluate existing or typical methods for researching an individual donor based on the textbook and information you gathered on the Internet. Create one (1) method for researching an individual donor. (This method can be a hybrid of multiple methods or a completely new method.) Create a letter of request that addresses the five (5) main points of a letter of request (ask for the gift, describe the need, explain what you will do, include budget data, and close.) Include at least three (3) references (no more than five [5] years old)...
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...transparency of Agency budget submissions, we recommended that NASA revise its guidance, to the extent practical, to ensure that managers of space system development programs in which Space Act Agreements are used provide detailed cost estimates for each year of the program based upon a complete analysis of the program over time before preliminary designs are completed. We also recommended that the Associate Administrator for the Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate examine whether more comprehensive costs estimates should be developed by the Commercial Crew Program before the completion of the Critical Design Reviews by NASA’s current commercial partners; routinely track adherence to the 90-day goal for responding to contractor requests for alternate requirement standards and variances and explore ways to facilitate the process; and, in conjunction with the FAA and the Air Force, formally establish a tri-agency Safety Steering Group for resolution of issues involving crew and public safety during commercial spaceflight operations. NASA’s efforts to facilitate the development of a commercial crew transportation capability began in earnest in February 2010 when the Agency awarded $50 million in Space Act Agreements to five commercial partners to help fund research and design of key technologies and systems. Known as Commercial Crew Development Round 1 (CCDev1), NASA awarded funded agreements to Sierra Nevada Corporation (Sierra Nevada) ($20 million), The Boeing Company...
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...Marketer CC: Jake Wells, Chief Operating Subject: Request for Business Writing Class Funding First, I would like to thank you for promoting me to Chief Marketer for Insane Entertainment. I am looking forward to implementing new marketing strategies for the company. I have noticed that for this position, the main source of communication not only for employees but with clients are emails, letters and various documents. I would like to request funding to attend the a Business Writing class this Spring to ensure that my written communication is up to par so that I may communicate with the company’s employees and clients effectively. In marketing communication is key and when a message is not conveyed properly business relationship are at risk of being broken. As Chief Marketer, I am in some cases must deal directly with clients and employees in the company which will involve a lot of writing. I recently discovered a business writing course at Jackson State University that meets one time a week at 7:00 p.m. for 90 minutes. The class is six weeks and is $450.00, which includes books and materials. This class will not conflict with my work. The class allows us to network with other individuals in our fields and also give insider tips on building strong lasting relationship with employees and clients. You told me that if the company could do anything to aide me in my position to let you know. Funding this Business Writing class will do just that. I am extremely...
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...BSBPMG522A ASSIGNMENT UNDERTAKE PROJECT WORK BSBPMG522A BSBPMG522A ASSIGNMENT UNDERTAKE PROJECT WORK BSBPMG522A Assignment – PART A: Define Project – the Project Charter – STUDENT INFORMATION Assessment due date 08/03/15 Scenario: You are an ambitious Customer Service Team Leader at Fynntown City Council Customer Service Centre (CSC). FCC CSC does not currently have a good reputation for Customer Service in either the business or general community. You have a lot of ideas on how to improve this situation, but as a Team Leader, you do not have the authority to implement any of these ideas. You have recently undertaken a Risk Assessment and Workforce Planning Exercise to identify ways of filling the skills gap and improving Customer Service at Fynntown City Council. There are three major parts to the Customer Service Improvement Initiative: 1. Restructuring the Customer Service Centre to deliver an 80% first Point of Contact Resolution Rate (it is estimated that this will reduce complaint calls by 75%) 2. Introducing a Workforce Management Plan that identifies and rewards talent 3. Installation of a new Database across all of Council that will house all constituent and business details, customer call histories, a knowledge base with information and FAQs, and performance reports (this forms a sub-project of the larger project with the IT Manager, Jim Pertwhistle, as the Project Manager). A budget of $175, 000 plus $25,000 contingency requiring...
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...also recently defined its giving strategy, particularly in how it relates to their business objectives. As part of this overall effort, Highland clarifies its giving guidelines. There are four broad funding areas (Job training and economic development, Education, Emergency preparedness, and Environmental stewardship), and grants are ideally awarded to organizations within the company's service area. Arts and cultural organizations, which are not included in the four funding areas, have received few grants in recent years. Numerous arts organizations have been turned down with the explanation that the company is focusing its resources in its strategic funding areas. Requests from other organizations are turned down because they are outside the utility's defined service territory. Contributions manager Clarissa Watt has recently received two funding requests from high-level managers within the company. The first is to provide a large (up to $25,000) grant to an arts center in a small town in the service territory. A chief regulatory official's wife serves on the art center's board. The second request is for a grant to a nonprofit organization outside the service territory, but within the district of a very influential state legislator. Both organizations are deserving of funding, and the activities to be funded are reasonable. Though no linkage of any kind is asked for, offered, or implied by the regulator or the legislator, the internal promoters of the grants feel these contributions...
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