EDMG498 Course Project Final Submission
I will upload parts A-DINFORMATION ON THE COURSE PROJECTOverview: As an emergency manager, one of your major duties will be to research and apply for grant monies in order to fund various tasks and initiatives to protect your community. We will be going through the steps that you might be going through in order to get a grant. This course project acts as a final examination as well as a learning experience. It is an opportunity for you to actually perform a (much) reduced series of tasks that are often part of the duties of an emergency manager, that is, risk and threat assessments and preparation of grant documents. They go hand and hand. Your project is broken into five parts. These are based around the application for a grant for improving your EOC from FEMA (love those alphabets). I am your FEMA contact on this (and I only have grades to give out, no money) so if you have questions you should contact me by course Message. I will comment and review (grade) your submissions.Review the “Course Project EOC Grant Outline” in the EDMG 498 Materials and Documents folder in your Resources course tool.I would like you to submit your various Assignments, and your Course Project Final Submission, as APA Style-compliant papers.In that regard, ensure you have a properly-formatted title page with "Running head", pagination , and Paper title, Author's name (you), and Institutional Affiliation (the school and the course number).You do not need to include an Abstract.For the body of each of your papers, please use the outline contained in the Course Project EOC Grant Outline mentioned above. You can disregard the letterhead and the items down through "Course Section", since your title page should have captured the essence of those items. Use the captions contained in the outline (e.g., "Community Description", Name of Locality", etc., but present them in proper APA Style. I would prefer you omit re-typing out the descriptive instructions of each caption (e.g., "The community's name (a community can be a political subdivision, a military base, or even a local event)", but you may include them if you wish.Cite all sources properly, in accordance with (IAW) APA Style (even though that may not be the way you would cite or footnote in a federal grant application). Format in-text citations properly; include page numbers for direct quotes).Ensure each page is numbered and contains the correct page heading (i.e., same as the running head minus the words "Running head").Include a References section, started on a separate page at the end of your paper, containing properly formatted sources. If you cite a source in your paper, ensure there is a corresponding source listed in the References section. For all sources listed in the References section, ensure there's at least one in-text citation citing it.Your Course Project Final Submission, due Week 8, should be a cumulative document containing Parts A through D plus the "Investment Impact" and "Pre-Existing Planning" sections, as described below. Your Course Project Final Submission should be a single, integrated paper.Please let me know if you have any questionsCourse Project Submission Parts:Part A RequirementWhen applying for most Federal and State programs and grants you are required to submit a great deal of detailed information on your community. Much of this is developed from the community’s threat assessment and identification of critical infrastructures and key resources. This assignment will start the research necessary for your final assignment. For this part you are to develop the following information for your community: The community’s name (a community can be a political subdivision such as an incorporated village, town, city, or county. I would prefer you not use a military base, if possible. Community boundaries (Make these as clear as possible and identifiable on a map) Why does that community exist? (Detail the reason for being a community, Tourism, Agriculture, Services, Commuting, Education, etc.)Submit this at the Course Project Part A Assignment.Part B RequirementWhen applying for most Federal and State programs and grants you are required to submit a great deal of detailed information on your community. Much of this is developed from the community’s threat assessment and identification of critical infrastructures and key resources. This assignment will continue the research necessary for your final assignment. For this part you are to develop the following information for your community: What is the climate and weather found in your community? Describe the Topography of your community (Include anything that might be a particular hazard). What is the population and demographics for your community? Are there any ethnic or other groups that might be either a particular risk or at risk from a threat group.Submit this at the Course Project Part B Assignment.Part C RequirementWhen applying for most Federal and State programs and grants you are required to submit a great deal of detailed information on your community. Much of this is developed from the community’s threat assessment and identification of critical infrastructures and key resources. This assignment will continue the research necessary for your final assignment. For this part you are to develop the following information for your community: What are the threat groups or threats that you see as problems for your community (assume all-hazards)? What are the groups or populations that these threats might target or harm? (Again, remember all-hazards.)Submit this at the Course Project Part C Assignment.Part D RequirementWhen applying for most Federal and State programs and grants you are required to submit a great deal of detailed information on your community. Much of this is developed from the community’s threat assessment and identification of critical infrastructures and key resources. This assignment will continue the research necessary for your final assignment. For this part you are to develop the following information for your community: Review the Key Resources and Critical Infrastructure and choose five. Submit these to the instructor as part of this assignment with the reason for the choice. Based on the material developed in A, B, and C you will use these structures to complete the Course Project Final Submission in Week 8 (See instructions below).Post the chosen five Key Resources and Critical Infrastructures with the reason for the choice.Submit this at the Course Project Part D Assignment.Course Project Final SubmissionYou are writing a grant proposal for the FEMA FY 2009 Emergency Operations Center Grant Program as found at http://www.floridadisaster.org/Response/engineers/.... Information on the grant is also found in the course documents. You have been tasked with submitting this with no assigned assistance. The information gained from parts A – D will assist your work. You think that eight weeks is not enough time for something like this but often federal grants open and close in an even shorter period of time. I am providing a submission document for your guidance in the course documents that is highly simplified from the normal federal documents. The grant documents that FEMA sent out are also included so you can see that they are in a new form of English. The course documents will be far easier for you to work on.The sections of the grant that you will work on for the finishing touches of your Course Project Final Submission are as follows:I. Investment ImpactDescribe how the project efficiently enhances EOC capabilities in a response.Page Limit: Not to exceed a ½ page responseInstructions:Describe how the project will enhance emergency management capabilities for the State, local, or tribal applicantDescribe how the project will accomplish this in a cost effective mannerII. Pre-Existing PlanningDescribe any pre-existing planning efforts that have been conducted for this investment.Response Type NarrativePage Limit Not to exceed ½ page responseInstructionsDescription of any pre-existing planning that has taken place relative to the deficiencies noted in the facility assessment, including:Architectural plans developedPermits in PlaceDescription of any pre-existing planning that has taken place relative to the proposed projectDescription of hazard-resistance design guidance utilized as part of the pre-existing planning, such as but not limited toFEMA 426/452 for identifying and mitigating man-made and terrorist threatsFEMA 361 and FEMA 543 for identifying and mitigating flood and wind hazardsFEMA 310 (ASCE 31) and FEMA 356 for identifying and mitigating seismic hazardsDescription of any current activities that have taken place relative to rectifying the identified deficiencies or needs identified in the assessmentAs I said earlier, I am including the documents so you can see what you will have to deal with in the real world and if you were really applying you would need to fill out large amounts of government paper, but I am not cruel enough to force that on you, so here is what you must do:Prepare a narrative of all the information required by Parts A – D, per the Course Project EOC Grant Outline and then provide the additional information concerning Investment Impact and Pre-Existing Planning requested above. Submit your application as an APA-compliant paper.Once again, remember, I am your FEMA/DHS contact for this course and if you have a question you should contact me.Submit this at the Course Project Final Submission Assignment.Please No PlagiarismPlease use APA formatting style and intext citationso
