Classes available at convenient locations nationwide:

• NEW! Mar. 6-7, Ft. Wayne, IN
• Mar. 12-13, 2012, Epping, NH
• Mar. 13-14, 2012, West Yarmouth, MA
• Apr. 6-7, 2013, Amboy, IL
• May 7-8, 2013, University Center, MI
• May 21-22, 2012, Saint Charles, IL
• NEW! May 29-30, Ruidoso, NM

Do you want to take your best shot at applying for FY2013 Assistance to Firefighters Grants?

For the last 4 years, First Responder Grants has conducted an AFG Super Summit conference. This conference is attended by experienced Fire Act grant writers who have won at least one Assistance to Firefighters Grant (AFG) award.

We use the summit as a "think tank" for some of the best fire grant writers in the fire service to come together. We brainstorm ideas and assist each other in developing new, better ideas to put forward for projects for that year's AFG program.

The group also has breakout sessions where attendees write their grant for the coming AFG application period. This gives us grant writer several opportunities to have their grant subjected to mock peer panel reviews. After these reviews, they can adjust and adapt their application to benefit from the feedback provided, prior to actual submission of their grant for the year.

Our typical success rate has been over 90% for those attending an AFG Super Summit. This is typically not a class about "writing" an AFG application; it is only open to attendance by those individuals who have won at least one AFG award. Price to attend is $350 each for the 2-day conference.

At the present time we are considering holding our 2013 AFG Super Summit in Waterford, MI (which is near Flint).

If you are interested in attending the Super Summit, please contact Kurt Bradley at kbradley@firstresp0opndergrants.com or (863) 551-9598 to add your name to the potential attendees list. There is no obligation. We will contact you after Mar. 1 with specifics on the Super Summit, and you can decide whether or not to register at that time.

By the way, it looks like FEMA won't open AFG for applications until May or June, so we are targeting April 15-30 for potential summit dates.

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• Personnel cuts or impending layoffs
• Lack of training funds
• No budget to purchase personal safety equipment or tools associated with any of these vocations
• Aging fleets of emergency response vehicles, fire trucks, ambulances, SWAT vehicles, mobile command post or squad cars
• Getting the most out of your limited budgets
• Obsolete computer hardware and software, but no budget for IT improvements that meet today's technology demands
• Communications equipment including, radios, base stations, repeaters, MDTs or pagers

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