Current Status

Grants

  • Important funding source for college
  • Part of Resource Development department
  • Partially funded through operating budget since FY 2009-10
  • Resource Development Personnel
    • Executive Director of Institutional Effectiveness and Resource Development
    • Executive Assistant
    • Grants Director
    • Grants Specialist
    • Fiscal Analysts (2) report through accounting business unit
  • Reason for not fully self-supported department
    • Cyclical and uncertain nature of grant funding – particularly federal grant programs (indirect funding)
  • Federal & State Grants – mostly offset different costs of RDD
    • Grant acquisition
    • Management
    • Evaluation
    • Compliance activities
  • Exception for budget increases – Salary increases & rising benefit expenses
  • Annual Grant Award
    • Average $6.4 M between 2010-11 & 2015-16
    • Maximum just over $10 M in 2015-16
    • Minimum just under $4M in 2013-14
    • Projections $7 M average through 2019-20 (constant) – to support continued College innovation & sustainability
  • Major sources of EvCC’s grant funding
    • U.S. Department of Labor
    • U.S. Department of Education (TRiO & Title III funding)
    • National Science Foundation (supports number of academic programs)
    • College Spark Washington (private foundation funder – supports critical projects)
    • Washington State 1000 FTE funding - regular addition to College’s allocation due to consistently meeting performance goal
  • Funding projection at federal and state level – somewhat pessimistic
    • Increased competition for federal funding
    • Congressional partisan conflicts impact the size and availability of many ongoing federal grant-funded programs (includes DOE, DOL & NSF)
    • Workforce legislation (WIOA) changes
    • Pending re-authorization of Higher Education Act
    • Continued pressure on Washington state budgeting – impact Workforce Development Council programs support through community college funding
  • Resource Development office funding focus
    • Private foundation monies
    • Corporate support focused on innovations and capacity building (supports EvCC’s Strategic plan achievement)
    • Collaborative work with other two-year & four-year colleges, K-12 districts, employers Workforce Snohomish & other community partners
  • Highly trained and experienced fiscal and grant acquisition and management staff positioned EvCC as a leader of consortium grants (DOL TechHire grant awarded 2015-16).
  • These larger collaborative grant awards contribute to total grant awards fluctuation year to year

State Allocation

  • New Allocation Model: Key Components

from: https://www.sbctc.edu/resources/documents/colleges-staff/programs-services/operating-budget/allocation-model-overview.pdf

  • Effects of new model:  
    • Reduction of state funding – Pie is finite and based on college success
    • Weighting of high-demand enrollments tends to favor technical colleges (1.3 v 1.0 FTE)
  • College focus:
    •  Meeting state enrollment targets
    • Increasing student achievement points
    • SBCTC Safe Harbor plan – spreading out the significant gain/losses over the first four years.
  • Interim enrollment success may offset the loss
  • Failure to meet enrollment targets and student achievement goals may worsen the loss.

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