Applicant Eligibility & Funding Period

Applicants must currently provide services within the County of Ventura and be a public or private organization or governmental entity. County programs receiving direct allocations of Tobacco Settlement funds are not eligible.
Applicants must demonstrate appropriate experience and skill in the funding area with demonstrated management capacity to administer requested resources. Applications should also demonstrate collaboration or coordination, financial leveraging from other sources, and cultural competence.
Tobacco Settlement funds will be competitively awarded via Requests for Applications (RFA). The goal is to fund quality programs and services in a fair and expeditious manner.

This funding process requires an aggressive timeline to have contracts in place for services to begin March 1, 2002.

Subsequent year funding for an awarded program is not guaranteed.

For more information, please contact:
Eileen Drake, Director of Health Education Services
Ventura County Public Health
2323 Knoll Drive,
Ventura, Ca 93003
(805) 677-5266

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Notice--Common Reasons For Disqualification

We do not want you to spend a great deal of time writing a proposal and then be disqualified because you did not comply with a requirement set forth in the RFA - Request for Applications. Each of the requirements was established for a good reason. To be fair to all applicants we must ensure that proposals that are given to the review panel meet all of the basic requirements set forth in the RFA. Please read the following carefully.

1. Proposal does not fit into the Priority Funding Area

Each of the Focus Areas - Communicable Disease, Chronic Disease and Oral Health have specified one or more Priority Funding Areas. If only one Priority Funding Area is specified, your proposal MUST fall within that area and when you respond in Part 1 of the Project Narrative, your project description must clearly explain how it fits into the Priority Funding Area. If it does not, the rest of the proposal will not be reviewed.

If two Priority Funding Areas are specified, your proposal must fall under one and ONLY ONE of the areas. If you wish to cover both areas you must write two separate proposals, one for each area.

2. Failure to designate the Priority Funding Area on the Application Cover Page

This only applies when there is more than one area to choose from as in the Chronic Disease RFA. Check one, but not both areas. On the Oral Health and Communicable Disease Application Forms there is only one Priority Funding Area which is already written in so you don't need to check it.

3. Failure to submit the correct number of copies

You MUST submit one original and nine copies for a total of ten proposals including attachments.

4. Too many pages
You MUST adhere to the page limits specified in the RFA.

5. Attachments that were not requested
"DO NOT SUBMIT ANY ATTACHMENTS THAT ARE NOT REQUESTED" (from RFA) means do not submit any attachments that were not requested.

6. Too many letters of collaboration

There is a limit of three letters. You are not required to have any letters but if your proposal requires the direct collaboration of another agency there should be a letter from that agency. The purpose of these letters is not for commendation or support - they are letters specifying how the agency will be directly involved with your project. Do not exceed the three letter limit.

7. Wrong font, font size or margins

In consideration of our volunteer reviewers, please adhere to the required font, size and margins specified.

8. Failure to use the Budget and Work Plan Formats specified in the RFA

You may re-create the forms (for example, if you want to do the budget in Excel) but they must be formatted EXACTLY as in Exhibit A and B in the RFA. In the budget you may add extra rows under Positions or Operating Expenses as needed and you may change/add line items under Operating Expenses as appropriate.

9. Failure to have you proposal submitted to Public Health Administration by the deadline specified on the RFA

This is EXTREMELY important. It is your responsibility to meet the deadline by allowing for traffic, weather and any other unforeseen delays.

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