Glossary
This glossary of terms can assist those interested in a Community-Academic Partnership Fund grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program.
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Academic Partner
A representative of a UW system campus who partners with the applicant organization (the community partner) for purposes of the grant application. Those eligible to serve as academic partners include:
- Faculty (full-time, part-time, or volunteer) and academic staff from the UW School of Medicine and Public Health
- Faculty from other UW schools and colleges (this includes all UW System Campus and Extension faculty)
Academic partners are expected to be actively engaged in the project, and hence should have knowledge of the health problem at issue. Learn more about details on eligible academic partners and resources for finding an academic partner.
Active Engagement
Active faculty engagement may range from a co-collaborator evaluation/research partner to serving in an advisory or consulting role, such as participation on an advisory committee, consulting in the development of the proposal or evaluation of the project.
Advocacy
Taking part in efforts to create or effect change in policies or systems. Advocacy efforts can take many forms, including education, media, direct action, and lobbying. Funding from The Wisconsin Partnership Program may not be used for lobbying to attempt to influence specific legislation; to influence the outcome of, or participate in, any public election; or to carry on, directly or indirectly, any voter registration drive.
Applicant Organization
The organization that is applying to the Wisconsin Partnership Program for a grant. In the case of a group of organizations working together to apply for a grant, the group chooses one of its members to be the applicant organization. The chosen organization is accountable to The Wisconsin Partnership Program for the programmatic and financial outcomes of the grant. In the case of a legally organized collaborative, the collaborative is the applicant organization.
B
Best Practices
Strategies, programs, and initiatives that have been formally evaluated and documented as consistently producing positive, desired results; believed to be successful but not rigorously tested.
C
Capacity
The organizational structure, management and staff skills, technical resources, and operating methods of an organization that determine its ability to solve problems, create and sustain services and programs, and generate resources and support.
Cash Match
Contributed financial (monetary) gifts from an applicant or collaborating organization.
Collaboration
A group of organizations that work together to achieve a common goal by planning, designing, and implementing a project. In this effort, all stakeholders exchange information, share resources, enhance the capacities of each other, and alter their normal activities to achieve the goal. A collaboration need not be a legal entity in order to apply for a Community-Academic Partnership Fund grant, but must identify a qualified fiscal sponsor.
Community Needs Assessment
Documented research results that indicate the needs of the target population of a project, as opposed to the needs of the applicant organization. Research includes consulting with members of the public, community organizations, service providers, and local government officials to identify and prioritize community health and health care needs.
D
Data Collection Method
The way that information is collected. Examples of data collection methods include surveys, interviews, focus groups, observation, document review and tests.
Development Grant
Money awarded to an organization to facilitate the planning of a project. Development grants support feasibility, seed or capacity building initiatives, the development of partnerships or promotion of collaborations or initiatives, and pilot or demonstration projects to determine if they warrant further development. Applications are only accepted from organizations that submit a Notice of Intent and then receive an invitation from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to submit a full proposal. The maximum award is $50,000 for up to 24 months.
Dissemination Plan
A documented strategy for sharing the knowledge gained from a project. For many projects, the activities that make up the dissemination plan will be included under an outcome in the project workplan.
E
Eligibility Criteria
The standards (as outlined in the Request for Partnership) that the Wisconsin Partnership Program uses to determine whether an organization or a project is eligible to receive funding.
Evaluation Plan
A plan that describes how the process and outcomes of a project will be assessed. The evaluation plan should follow the items in the project workplan. Also see "outcome."
Evidence Based Practices
Practices whose effectiveness has been confirmed by systematic research or expert consensus.
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Fiscal Sponsor
A governmental or tax-exempt, 501(c)(3) organization that serves as the financial sponsor for an applicant, if that service is necessary. A fiscal sponsor agrees to accept and be responsible for grant monies, including all financial record keeping and reporting. The fiscal sponsor of an applicant organization is accountable to the Wisconsin Partnership Program for the financial outcomes of the grant. The applicant organization remains responsible for the programmatic outcomes of the project.
G
Goal(s)
Goals are the idealized, "big picture" vision of what the project will accomplish.
Grant
Money awarded to an organization to support a project.
H
Health Disparities
Health disparities are differences in health status or health outcomes among or between specific population groups.
I
Implementation Grant
Money awarded to an organization to implement model solutions to critical health issues in Wisconsin. Implementation grants typically show strong evidence of need in a community, with a high likelihood for impact and potential for application or replication elsewhere. An application for an Implementation Grant must include a separate budget for each year and a combined project work plan that spans all years. Applications are only accepted from organizations that submit a Notice of Intent and then receive an invitation from the Wisconsin Partnership Program to submit a full proposal. The maximum award is $400,000 over a three-year period.
In-Kind Revenue
Contributed goods or services from an applicant or collaborating organization, as opposed to contributed financial (monetary) gifts.
L
Letter of Commitment
A letter from a collaborating organization that indicates commitment to the submitted project in one or more of the following ways:
- Already participated in the planning of the project
- Personnel will actively participate in the project
- Will contribute resources to the project.
Letter of Support
A letter from an organization other than the applicant organization that expresses agreement with or enthusiasm for a proposed project.
Leveraged Funds
Monies to be received from sources other than the Wisconsin Partnership Program, if those monies are dependent upon receiving a grant from the Wisconsin Partnership Program. Leveraged funds should be identified in the project budget.
N
Notice of Intent
A notification of a community organization's intent to apply to the Wisconsin Partnership Program for funding. A Notice of Intent is required of all potential applicants. The Notice of Intent is Web-based.
O
Objectives
Concrete, specific, measurable project accomplishments.
Outcome
The result of project activities, often expressed in terms of changes in behavior, norms, decision-making, knowledge, attitudes, capacities, motivations, skills, or conditions on individuals, families, households, organizations, systems, or communities. Together, the full set of project outcomes should achieve the overall project goal.
Outcome Measure or Indicator
A quantitative or qualitative measure that provides a basis for assessing achievement, change, or performance over time.
P
Project Goal Statement
A broad, general statement about what will be accomplished by a project and how it will be done.
Project Revenue
Money that is generated by the project for which funding is being requested. For example, if the proposal includes training sessions where a dentist and pediatrician provide training to providers, the monies generated by the session fees would be considered project revenues.
Project Workplan
A clear representation of a project showing who is going to do what, when they are going to do it, and what they will accomplish. The workplan ideally should include activities that result in developing an evaluation plan, developing and implementing a sustainability plan, and developing and implementing a dissemination plan.
R
Rural
As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau: "all areas outside of urbanized areas and urban clusters."
S
Supplanting
Supplanting means to take the place of and serve as a substitute for other funds. The Insurance Commissioner's Order prohibits any funds from being awarded that will supplant funds or resources otherwise available to applicants from other sources for the proposed project. Therefore, for supplanting of other resources to occur, funds expended would need to replace other funds available to the applicant for the proposed project. View examples of supplanting and non-supplanting (pdf).
Sustainability
The ability of the health improvement outcomes of a project to continue beyond the Wisconsin Partnership Program grant period without further Wisconsin Partnership Program funding. This may involve locating new sources of funding, working to improve reimbursement systems, and/or integrating the work of the project into existing health systems. All Wisconsin Partnership Program applicants are expected to be actively planning for sustainability, and all grantees are expected to begin implementing sustainability activities early in the grant period.
T
Target Population
The group of persons whose health status is expected to be directly improved by the project.
Terms of Award
A contract (Memorandum of Understanding - MOU) that specifies the conditions that a grantee and The Wisconsin Partnership Program must meet in order for the grantee to receive payment of an approved award.
U
Underserved Population
A group of people, who for a variety of reasons, do not have equal access to health and health care services.
Urban
As defined by the U.S. Census Bureau: "a generic term that refers to both urbanized areas and urban clusters."
V
Vulnerable Population
A group of people with certain characteristics that cause it to be at greater risk of having poor health. The Wisconsin Partnership Program considers these characteristics to include, but to not be limited to, age, culture, disability, education, ethnicity, health insurance, housing status, income, mental health, and race.
