Last Proposal - RMH

The last proposal in my seemingly never ending stack of proposal has finally come. I have taken my time in reviewing and reading each proposal to give them my best effort and full attention. I would say all together each proposal takes me about an hour or two to read through thoroughly, and another two hours to review and score. Spread out over a week this hasn't been such a terrible task. Like Gary has said though, Im glad to be almost done with reading through these since the medical jargon and proposal language is rather dry and hard to sift through sometimes.

This last proposal comes from the Rockingham Memorial Hospital. This proposal also appears very well composed and organized as it follows the RFP guidelines rather exactly. I now understand why this is one of the main requirement of the Ryan White Foundation. These guidelines were put in place to form some sort of standardization of proposals so that they wouldn't have to sift through pages of text to find the information most wanted. I would have expect most organizations to stick to these as closely as possible since they are essentially asking the Ryan White Foundation for money or services, but I digress.

This proposal had one of the highest budgets but im assuming this is because it is such a large entity in itself being a Hospital. I do not have the background knowledge to understand how much of a budget is too much or how much is reasonable so this part of the scoring sheet, I brought this concern up to Gary early in the volunteering period and he said that the budget is rather ambiguous since they hardly ever give the amount asked for. Based on its following of the guidelines, I scored this proposal the highest out of all of the plans. I will take the stack of review sheet and proposals into Gary tomorrow and discuss my experience with him.