Planning
Collaboration
E-Rate Toolkit
- Important Steps for Head Start E-Rate Applicants
- Office of Head Start E-Rate Technology Plan
- Technology Planning and Form 470
- Head Start E-Rate Eligibility
- E-Rate Application Process Flowchart
- E-Rate FAQs - General Information
- E-Rate FAQs - Application Process
- Job Aid for Requesting an Entity Number
Grant Development
- Budget Development
- Grant Definitions & Explanations
- Non-Federal Share: An Overview of Requirements
- Proposal Writing Short Course ES
- Budgeting for Partnerships between Child Care and Head Start
- Attachment 2: Summary Table on Perceived Barriers
- Attachment 3: Distribution of Costs in a Head Start Budget
Plans
- Accounting Software Assessment Worksheet
- Getting Help with Your Technology Plan
- How Technology is Funded: The Basics
- Technology Organizational Assessment Worksheet
- Technology Plan Reference Guide
- What’s Involved in Technology Planning?
- Why a Technology Plan?
- Word Processing Software Assessment Worksheet
- Working with Corporate Volunteers and Consultants
- Overview of Strategic Planning or "VMOSA" (Vision, Mission, Objectives, Strategies, and Action Plans)
- Checklist for Achieving "VMOSA"
- An Example of VMOSA
- Tool #1: An Example Outline Using Two Half-Day Working Sessions
- Integrating Services, Technology, and the Human Spirit
Program Planning
- A Step-By-Step Guide To Head Start Planning
- A Tool for Performing a SWOT Analysis
- Checklist for Conducting a SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
- Checklist for Developing and Using a SWOT Analysis
- Developing an Action Plan
- Development & Administrative Costs
- EHS Tip Sheet No. 25: How Do We Support Services for Infants and Toddlers in a Birth-to-Five Program? ES
- EHS Tip Sheet No. 8: Why Are Early Head Start Programs Responsible for Providing Diapers and Formula?
- EHS Tip Sheets No. 26: How Do You Create an Effective Environment of Infant/Toddler Socializations in an Early Head Start Home-Based Program? ES
- Glossary of Common Head Start Data Sources
- [Handout A] Advantages/Considerations of Three Budget Types
- [Handout B] Program Budget Development
- Head Start: Curriculum Use and Individual Child Assessment in Cognitive and Language Development
- Linking Between Program Planning and Budget Development
- Management Team Roles in Planning
- Managing Programs: A Systemic Approach to Program Planning
- Participating in the Management Process
- Participation in the Management Process
- Plan to Plan
- Propose Directions and Adopt Plans
- SWOT Analysis: Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities, and Threats
- IM-22 Child Development Services During Home Visits and Socializations in the Early Head Start Home-Based Program Option
