Southeastern Utah Association of Local Governments (SEUALG) has had wonderful success at receiving grants to help the community.  SEUALG works with city and state government agencies. Everyone employed at SEUALG writes grants and is actively looking for new recruits who are interested in grant writing to aid the communities.

If interested in grant writing contact Lori Riley at SEUALG. Riley can provide technical support and answer questions on grants. In one year Riley has raised thousands of dollars to benefit the community.

“To write a grant you have to tell your story,” says Riley. “You have to tell your story good enough that people want to give you money.”

A grant requires a lot of research. The writer has to know facts and percentages. Those facts and percentages need to be included in each proposal but it will never be awarded if they don’t also present the story behind it. The story is how those numbers affect the people and the betterment of the communities involved.

Riley said the most interesting grant she has written was for Navajo Mountain. There was a problem with the pet population in that area. The pets were domesticated animals that the people couldn’t afford to take care of anymore so the animals had become feral and were running unchecked, scavenging for food and procreating, which fueled the problem even more. Riley subsequently wrote a grant to The Doris Day Foundation to try to get money to help the situation.

Riley’s primary realm for grant writing has been with the Southeast Utah Community Development Corporation (referred to at the CDC), which is a 501c3 or a non-profit organization. She states she has had the most success rate with grants targeted towards beautification and the monies awarded are distributed back to the communities through the CDC.

Hundred of grants are written and hundreds are denied each year. The percentages of actually being awarded any one grant depends on many factors.

Examples of some of the grants that have been awarded to the area include one for $10,000.00 from Dominion Energy to get funds to install a Veterans Memorial in Price. She also wrote a $1000 grant to Walmart for beautification on Main Street in Price.

The story here is, success for communities throughout southeastern Utah.

Granted.