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Inclusive Transportation Planning Grant

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The East Texas Human Needs Network is seeking a planning grant to encourage the development of an inclusive coordinated transportation system in which people with disabilities and older adults actively participate in both advisory and decision-making capacities. Our planning team has further identified healthcare related transportation as our area of focus. Receipt of this Planning Grant would further enhance current coordination and planning of transportation efforts in Tyler and Smith County.​

We are asking for a letter from you because you have an interest in the proposed plan and could potentially benefit from the activities. A letter from you indicates to the funding entity that you are familiar with our mission, share our values, and are interested in the success of our proposal.

Request for Proposal: Inclusive Transportation Planning Guide


​A Letter of Support
proclaims that you believe the project is worthwhile. Letters of support may come from community organizations, businesses, or anyone else who is part of the service population. These letters do not commit to any financial or in-kind support.
Sample Letter of Support
A Letter of Commitment shows that your organization believes the project is so worthwhile that you are willing to commit personnel or resources to it. Letters of commitment from partners and collaborators demonstrate that the funding entity is not the only source of support for the project.
Sample Letter of Commitment

    Please return letter by March 14

    1. Scan and email to:            info@ethnn.org
    2. Mail to:                                ETHNN
                                                     4910 Hightech Dr.
                                                     Tyler, TX 75703
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Submit Letter

Key Stakeholder Voices (Participants)
​(as of 3.11.16)
  • Kristy Swan Range
  • JD Meyer
  • Bill Stephens
  • Jose Leija
Key Coordinated Transportation Partners (as of 3.11.16)
  • City of Tyler Transit
  • East Texas Council of Governments - Go Bus & Area Agency on Aging
  • NDMJ, Ltd.
Key Stakeholders
(as of 3.11.16)
  • Smith County Area Mobility Manager
  • East Texas Center for Independent Living
  • Texas Department of Disability and Rehabilitative Services.
  • Fresenius Medical Care
  • Tyler Nephrology Associates
  • The Andrews Center
  • Tyler Area Senior Citizens Association
  • PATH: People Attempting to Help

Questions?
​

Christina Fulsom
ETHNN Founder and CEO
903.216.3211
​christina@ethnn.org

​
Kristy Swan Range
Smith County Area Mobility Manager
ETHNN Transportation Council Chair
903.714.5079 
​kristyrange@gmail.com

Deliverables
Applicants who receive funding under this grant program are expected to use their funding to:

1. Develop, in collaboration with the assigned National Project Liaison and the Evaluator (WESTAT), an evaluation plan, including the identification of performance measures (outputs, outcomes, and customer satisfaction measures) and action steps that will be tracked throughout the grant period. Performance measures will include a mix of standard, mandated measures across all grants as well as a limited number of grantee-identified measures specific to each grant.

2. Develop and submit timely and complete monthly financial and program reports,using the reporting format mandated by the national project.

3. Document implementation of the adopted inclusive coordinated transportation strategy(ies) and develop two implementation reports (at 5 months and 9 months) following a format to be developed by the national project.

4. Participate in monthly All Grantees conference calls, make bi-monthly presentations about your grant and contribute to discussions regarding implementation and topics such as the meaning of inclusiveness and how to expand inclusive coordinated transportation planning.

5. Develop at least one webinar presentation about your grant during the grant year, focused on how people with disabilities and older adults are actively and meaningfully included and the impact of their involvement.

6. Engage in at least one activity each quarter with the Peer Learning Facilitator/Mentor assigned to your grant.
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7. Develop a specific plan for sustaining inclusive coordinated transportation planning. The plan should address financial, personnel, operational and policy issues across the organization that support inclusivity and sustain the engagement of people with disabilities and older adults in transportation planning.
ETHNN   I   PO Box 7042, Tyler, TX 75711   I   903.216.3211​
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