How to Write a Proposal for a Healthcare Organization

Whether you want to start your own health care organization or are writing on behalf of one already in existence, be specific about the goals and use supporting facts from the literature as well as from your direct experience and situation. Target the proposal to fundraisers or grant organizations as well as foundations and individuals who provide philanthropic services. Use appropriate terminology relevant to the field you're writing about but keep in mind that laymen may read the proposal, too.

Instructions

• 1

  Conceptualize the overall goal and draft a rough outline or list of key points you want to include in the proposal. Pinpoint the location where care will be provided -- home, hospital, clinic, welfare agency, school, etc. Think through what will be involved for care at the specific locale and what the needs are to begin and sustain your particular goal. For example, if you are seeing backing for a therapeutic massage clinic, you are either going to rent an office and healing space or you will work from home.

• 2

  Draft your proposal. Open with an appropriate title, such as "Expansion Needs for Elder Care in Seattle." Introduce the goal you have clarified as per step 1, in paragraph form. List the demographic being served, all specific needs to include employees, equipment, overhead, outsourcing costs and so forth. Elaborate on each item to give a clear picture of an actual plan that will occur if the proposal is accepted.

• 3

  Add pertinent details and supplemental documentation, such as medical studies done in related fields, financial records, data regarding the community being served and projected outcomes you expect to reach. If, for example, you propose a group of 5 new elder care facilities in the Bay Area of California, you would want to show that the population needs are currently not being met, as well as sharing recent studies done by, say, Stanford University, that describe how more people are living longer and more effective lives than 50 years ago.

• 4

  Add affiliations already in place and strategic allies in the field in your area as well as nationwide. These could be government or private medical organizations as well as wealthy local residents who support the goal or programs already in place that will be affected.

• 5

  Provide biographical and professional information for each existing employee working on the project or those you plan to add to the staff. This is similar to an Executive Summary. Securing advocacy from Medical Board members or civic officers will serve to assure those who read the proposals that the proposal is already receiving endorsements.

• 6

  Finalize the proposal by listing all individuals who drafted and composed it, or participated in planning. Use their proper titles such as R.N., Doctor, technician and so on. Add contact information for the person who is ultimately responsible for follow through on the proposal. If you have a deadline, note it toward the end near signatures or very early on in the document. Something like, "The intended start date on this program is September 1st, 2011."