Needs Data & Research links
Any proposal asking for money must:
- Tell "What it will do for the people"
- Address the grantor's expressed goals
- Link local needs data to the planned activity
A "needs statement" is a fundamental component of any proposal. Needs must reflect the problems and challenges of the people that the grant is intended to serve (a.k.a., "target population"). You must show data-supported evidence of a local need because you are usually going to spend the money locally.
Grant Readers generally know about state and or national trends that are widely publicized in the literature, so you need to make the local connection for them. Grant application readers are often instructed to ignore citations of state and national studies and statistics unless they are persuasively connected to local data.
Recommended Sources
Gavilan College Institutional Research - many Gavilan research reports and links to other sources
California Community Colleges DataMart
CPEC - California Postsecondary Education Commission
California Department of Eucation
DataQuest (more detailed)
Center for Educational Planning - Santa Clara County Office of Education
San Benito County Office of Education
School District Income & Poverty statistics
Education Statistics Quarterly
IPEDS - Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (Gavilan ID = 114938)
NCES - National Center for Educational Statistics
NCES - National Center for Educational Statistics - School Locator
NCES - Tables and figures
Jobs - Occupations - Job Market -
Job Outlook for California Community College Occupational Education Programs
California Occupational Employment projections
California Workforce Investment Board (WIB)
NOVA - Santa Clara County WIB
Silicon Valley - WIB
DOLETA - Employment & Training Administration
High Growth High Wage Occcupations
CareerInfoNet - fastest growing occupations
Racial and Ethnic Wage Gaps in the California Labor Market
Poverty in California (pdf)
County & City
Santa Clara County Planning Office
ABAG - Assn of Bay Area Governments
AMBAG - Assn of Monterey Bay Area Governments
Population Demographics and the Economy
Research - California Department of Finance
Portrait of Race and Ethnicity in California
Small Area Income and Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) (State, County, & School Districts; maps available too)
American Fact Finder - U.S. Census Bureau
National Priorities Project database
Demographics and the Economy - also, StateHealthFacts
Congressional Districts in Gavilan's Service Area:
11 CA-011 (Pombo East-SC County rural areas), http://www.house.gov/pombo/pombo.htm
15 CA-015 (Honda – Gilroy), http://www.honda.house.gov/
16 CA-016 (Lofgren - SJ-MH-SM) Lofgren, Zoe
17 CA-017 (Farr – San Benito) Farr, Sam