- Ask for the gift. Begin with a reference to your prior contact with your Funding Organization if any. State why you are writing and how much funding is required from your particular foundation, institution, etc.
- Describe your need. State why there is a need for a donation or grant for a piece of equipment, etc.
- Explain what you will do. Provide enough detail to attract your Funding Organization’s interest.
- Provide organization’s information. Include a bit more information about your organization by stating your mission/vision statement, a brief description of your programs offered, number of people that you have served, staff, volunteer, and Board of Trustees, etc.
- Include appropriate budget information. Indicate the total cost of your project proposal.
- End with a strong conclusion. It should have a strong concluding statement.
- Attach any additional information required. Include any supporting document to build strong and positive relationship for your organization’s future and the community you serve.
Prepaid Kilowatt-hour Meter / Prepaid Electricity
By: Engr. Josielyn Briones
Introduction
The discovery of wireless communication of cellular phones today has always been a great reward in this century for the ingenuity of human’s continuous exploration for easy living.
The cellular phones and telecommunication and network providers offer us faster and efficient ways to save our time and human energy in dealing with our monthly routine such as bank-to-bank payments for electric bill, water bill, cash deposit, etc., and amazingly, everything has been done through text messaging alone.
Even the metering of households and company’s electric consumption has been patterned to the ballooning figures in communication via open atmosphere.
The combination of electric and electronic features of prepaid kilowatt-hour meter has been considered one of the breakthroughs in rendering service of electric company.
The prepaid technology helped a lot of companies to cut their budget in production, and this technology secures irresponsible tenants for commercial and leasing establishments from escaping for their own power supply.
The fast revolution of wireless technology brought advent for everything prepaid, from cellphone loads to every device or transaction that can be digitalized or electronically manufactured.
Background of the Study
Prepaid Kilowatt-hour Meter features remote re/connection of power supply through GSM module, and Microcontrollers Unit (MCU), reducing the monotonous and labor-intensive meter reading. Its theoretical backbone was patterned from prepaid technology. Thus, owners can determine expenses, and poses good measure for energy conservation.
It will be processed in MCU triggering the contactor that re/connects the supply from mains to meters. This study foresees practicality in the future for commercial applications.
Objectives
General Objective
The general objective of the study is to produce simple prototype design of a prepaid kilowatt-hour meter as well as to apply the theories of engineering in designing this project.
Specific Objectives
1.To determine if the study is viable for commercial and large-scale application.
2.To determine the advantages and disadvantages of using such a device.
3. To enumerate the unique functions and uses of this prototype.
Significance of the Study
This research may provide an alternative solution to the problem of monotonous and labor-intensive meter reading of electric company personnel; and tedious payment of bill, to the part of consumers. It may also be recommended to commercial and leasing establishments where tenants are held accountable for their own electric bill.
Scope and Limitations
The main feature of the designed prototype is to electrically load the watt-hour meter and automatically trip the electrical supply of the power provider to the consumer’s line if the prepaid load is already consumed. It is limited to single-phase supply, so as its watt-hour meter. The GSM module is signal-dependent from its network provider.
Resource Requirement
Books
A Proposed Design of a Bagasse Rotary Dryer for Cagayan-Robina Sugar Milling Company
A Proposed Design of a Bagasse Rotary Dryer for Cagayan-Robina Sugar Milling Company
BY:
Mary B. Pasion
Instructor
Nueva Vizcaya State University
Introduction
In the sugar factories,bagasse is used as captive fuel in their boilers for raising steam necessary for power generation, as well as running the sugar factory and processing sugar cane into sugar.
Raw Sugar Process
Sugarcane Component
70% water
14% fiber
13.3% saccharose (10-15% sucrose)
2.7% soluble impurities
By-products of sugar cane
molasses
bagasse
Bagasse
• the fibrous residue left over after the extraction of juice from sugar cane milling process
• composed of 43-52% fiber, 45-52% moisture and 2-6% soluble solids
Background
In Cagayan-Robina sugar milling company, the installation of bagasse dryer became essential since the moisture content of bagasse of the mill run bagasse of their milling plant has an average of 50.12%. High moisture content in the bagasse cause incomplete combustion in the boiler furnace, therefore it need a lot of extraneous to meet the steam requirement of the factory.
Objectives
General Objective:
To propose a design of a bagasse rotary dryer for Cagayan-Robina Sugar Milling Company.
Specific Objectives:
1. To design a rotary bagasse dryer for CARSUMCO.
2. To make an economic feasibility of the proposed design in terms of:
a. rate of return of investment
b. payback period
Scope and Limitations:
In response to the problem of high moisture content of bagasse from the milling plant of CARSUMCO, this study focused in the design of a rotary bagasse dryer.
Schedule of Activities
Identification of Problem – 1 month
Data Gathering – 1 month
Design – 2 months
Computations – 1 month
Documentations – 1 month
Expected Output
1. Design of a rotary bagasse dryer
2. Economic feasibility based on computed rate of return and payback period.
Resources
• Books and journals
• Internet Access
• CARSUMCO laboratory results
• Machine shop
Proposal Checklist
I hope these proposal checklist helps you in writing your proposal.
- Obtain copy of RFP to make sure that your proposal adheres with the guidelines and rules.
- State your idea clearly and concisely in writing.
- Your proposal should be timely, significant, innovative and unique.
- Cite alternative approaches and justified why your idea is the best.
- Review literature carefully.
- Identify your skills and partner’s skills.
- Use graphs, tables, figures and visual materials.
- Don’t forget to include the schedule of activities.
- Include proposal costing
- Get specialist or expert knowledge, if necessary.
- Number the pages of your proposal.
- Let someone proofread your proposal for further evaluation and correction.
- Attach necessary supporting documents.
Loan Proposal Format
Loan approval is depends on how you will present yourself as well as your business. The lenders make it sure that you will repay your proposed loan and you have sufficient assets (collateral) in case the loan goes into default. It is your duty to give your lenders an assurance that you will be able to pay your loans. A well written proposal should be prepared to improve your chances of getting a loan. Your proposal should contain the following items.
Cover Letter – It should not more than one or two pages long. Just give details how the loan will be used.
General Information – It includes the business name, names of owners, business address as well as Social Security number of each owner.
Business Description – Business nature and history should be included as well as the business age and number of employees and current assets. Also, the business structure must be included
Management Report – Have a short report regarding each owner such as their education, background, experience, skills and accomplishments.
Market Report – Classify your business product and business markets. Cite your marketing strategy to compete with your competitors. Also, identify your prospective customers.
Financial Report – Include your balance sheet and income statement for the past three years, if your business is new, create your projected balance sheet and income statement. Present your personal financial statement as well as the other owners of the business. Finally, identify the collateral you are willing to guarantee as the security for the loan.
Photographs – Sometimes, it is necessary to include the interesting and attractive photos of your business such as product and equipment. You may caption some of the photos to tell the story what the lender want to know.
Sample Objectives for the Home Appliances and Light Automation with SMS Proposal
The study aims to develop wireless operation of lighting and home appliances through the computer system and the SMS.
The proposed study has the following objectives:
- – to develop a system that would help the user to monitor their home lights and appliances
- – to develop software that would automatically switch ON/OFF lights and appliances
- – to develop software that would provide adequate switching capabilities
- – to design a system that would provide security and convenience
- – to develop a system that would automatically shut off the computer system through SMS.
Grant Proposal Components
Grant proposal is a formal document written and submitted to government or entity that offering a grant program. It is a written request for monetary assistance in the form of a grant.
Some corporations, foundations and government agencies give out of billion of dollars in grants to companies. It is important to have a valuable skill to write good grant proposals. The following are components to have a good grant proposal.
- Abstract. Brief summary which clearly describe the proposed project.
- Need Statement or opportunity. Define the current situation that your project will address. Focus on the problem and make the problem fixable with the grant money and the problem must be significant to warrant funding.
- Project Description. Describe the project and explain how to solve the problem. Convince the reader that the project is the best way to solve the problem.
- Goals and Objectives. Identify the things want to accomplish and things to achieve. It must be specific.
- Project Activities. Provide timetable that shows the activities to carry out the project.
- Evaluation. Describe how the project being monitored and the result will be evaluated. Includes the criteria how the project is being evaluated and the persons who conduct the evaluation.
- Organization information. Sometime it is necessary to include the outline of the organization including its history, accomplishments, and qualifications of key people and so on.
- Budget. Clearly identify how the money will be spent in the project. Provide detailed expenses for the project.
Characteristics of Good Proposal
A good proposal should be readable, well-organized, understandable and grammatically correct. Your proposal should clearly explain how the proposed idea made improvements.
Based on my understanding, I listed some of characteristics should a proposal should have.
- Describe an idea to solve problems in new ways
- Identify the general and specific objective precisely
- Rationale costing. Budget should be realistic. It should be consistent and complete without unambiguous
- Provide valid assumptions. It should have detailed information to justify every statement.
- Detailed schedule of activities to complete the project
- Follow all the directions given in the proposal guidelines
- Consist of appendices which serve as evidence of careful planning and previous experience
- Clearly communicates the qualification of the personnel involved in the project
- Well-organized writing style in such as way that it uses a header to lead the reader
- Paginated from beginning to end including the appendix
- Use appropriate graphs and figures, charts and other visual materials
- Proofreads for grammatical errors and misspelling
- Include vitae to demonstrate credentials required
- Consists of necessary letter of support and other documentation
- Identify potential pitfalls and alternative approaches
Some Feasibility Study Mistakes
It is imperative to show your idea is feasible to attract investor and fund the project. No matter what is your offering whether a product or service, you need to convince other people to finance your ideas.
I provide some feasibility mistakes which serve as guidelines to your feasibility study.
- Doing feasibility study without doing research. It is a wasting of time and money without preliminary research on validity of the idea. It is necessary to conduct initial research or pre-feasibility study before the start on of a full feasibility study.
- Incorrect data interpretation. Sometimes, the writer overestimates the market size as well as the opportunity for the new venture. For example, you will observe that the product has a large market place, but not realized the strengths of competitors and their customer’s loyalty.
- Incorrect cost estimation. Make sure to detailed the cost to avoid over-estimation or under estimation. Also, cost estimates should be studied carefully.
- Overlook indirect competitors. Make sure to investigate all products and services that deal to customers’ need.
- Surveys dependence. Don’t over rely to survey because people tend to answer “yes” for new product but when it comes to purchasing, they say “no”.
- Without expert Assistance. It is important to get expert views regarding the product, idea or services.
Proposal Sample – Portable Wind Energy Generator Charger
Design a Portable Wind Energy Generator Charger
Introduction
In today’s generation, cell phone chargers are inseparable entity of any cell phone. There is no cell phone in the world which is free of its chargers. With the advent of new sophisticated cell phone in the market, cell phone users are paying much importance to its charger.
The portable wind energy generator charger is a project that aims to harness natural sources of energy. With traditional energy sources running low, and process rising, most people are taking advantage of “free” energy as long as it can be implemented safely. Using this gadget, cell phone can be charge anywhere and anytime.
In conclusion, the wind power generation is an ideal alternative power energy source. It gives us savings and cleans the air we breathe in. The benefits actually have a chain reaction of positive effects around the globe. It will lower the price of fuel, it will improve our economy, and we will have a cleaner environment.
Background of the Study
Electric Charger is the indispensable item for any owner of a cell phone, iPod or other rechargeable electronic device. Cell phone users always want to turn on their cell phone to stay connected with their friends and relatives. In case of power failure, cell phone users cannot use their electric charger to charge electricity.
The researcher comes up to design a portable wind energy generator charger to keep cell phone fully charged even miles away from conventional electricity. It is an ultimate reliable emergency power supplies for cell phones because it never gets used up and never wears out or stop working.
Objectives
General Objective
- Develop Adjustable Wind-Powered Electric Generator
Specific Objectives
- To design a Portable Wind-Power Generator Charger
- To determine the minimum requirements for the selection of a location where to prototype can be implemented
- To test the prototype in terms of accuracy and the relationship of the wind speed and voltage output
Scope and Limitation
The study focuses mainly on the design and construction of an efficient electric generator system, powered by the wind. The generator produces a voltage rating up to 6 volts maximum and a minimum of 1.25 volts, adjustable, with a power rating of 5 watts.
The study aims to provide a quality power source. This project is expected to supply electricity to support minimum energy consumption. This can be applied in the use of a low powered device, which, in this study is a mobile phone, the Nokia cell phones.
Wind energy is the only energy source that can be utilized in this study. So, only areas that are subjected to little or no wind movement at all may or may not benefit from this study. The generator system operates at a minimum wind speed of 6.9695 meters per second or 25.0901 kilometers per second.
Schedule of Activities
* an excerpt from the proposal of wind-energy generator charger