Video 8: Population to be Served

Population to be Served

This section will provide an overview how to describe your Population to be Served.

Your application should identify the individuals or groups who will be involved in the project's activities and explain how they will benefit from their participation. You will also include a description of your recruitment and outreach efforts, if applicable.

Hello and welcome to the 2025 ANA Pre-Application Training, Population to be Served.
Element nine of the NOFO asks, "Describes the participants or beneficiaries to be served by the project and explains how they will benefit from it."
To respond to this section, you're going to describe who your participants or beneficiaries will be. If your project is not necessarily working with participants, maybe you're doing a capacity building project, you will want to identify who the beneficiaries of what you're going to be doing will be.
When you're covering this section, you'll also discuss your recruitment strategy. So if you have participants for your project, how are you recruiting them? Are you doing a job fair or are you putting flyers out? You'll want to go into detail about how you're going to get people into your project. This includes including any outreach activities.
Although it's not a requirement for the element, it may be helpful to include information on the screening and the selection process of participants, just so that the reader is aware of the entire process.
The other part to the element is describing the benefits to project participants or beneficiaries. For instance, if you are having a workforce development project, you're providing training and certifications, you can identify that they are getting employability skills and speak to that. If your project is not going to be recruiting participants or volunteers, please put that in your application just so that the reader is aware that you didn't forget to put it in your application.
Here's an example of what this section could look like. In this example, you'll see that they are going to be providing food security for the community through a workforce development project. They're going to be training individuals, and so they provide information about who the participants are going to be, and then also what the benefits from the project are. They're referencing food security, but also employability through the program. Also, the capacity of the tribe in operating a small business and having that food security for tribal members.
So when completing your Population to be Served, just ensure that you identify all of the participants or anyone benefiting from the project. Discuss the recruitment process that you have in place for participants or beneficiaries. And then fully describe what benefit are they getting from the project.

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Video 1: Overview of ANA and the Funding Opportunities

Video 2: Project Introduction

Video 3: Current Community Condition

Video 4: Project Goals

Video 5: Objectives

Video 6: Project Implementation Plan

Video 7: Community Based Strategy

Video 8: Population to be Served

Video 9: Outcomes

Video 10: Objective Work Plan

Video 11: Data Management Plan

Video 12: Staffing Plan

Video 13: Partnerships and Consultants

Video 14: Oversight Plan

Video 15: Line Item Budget and Budget Narrative

Video 16: Preparing your ANA Application

Video 17: Submitting the Application to ANA

Video 18: Conclusion

Video 8: Population to be Served

Population to be Served

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