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    How To Write Grant Proposal

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    This document provides guidance on the key elements to include in a successful grant proposal, including a short overview, examination of the problem or need being addressed, description of the proposed project and its goals/methods, budget, and any other required sections like a cover letter or information about your organization. The overview should summarize the purpose, outcomes, assessment of success, and importance of the project. The problem statement must demonstrate the need for the project through data and research. The project description then explains how the goals will be achieved and measured to effectively address the identified need.

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    How To Write Grant Proposal

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    This document provides guidance on the key elements to include in a successful grant proposal, including a short overview, examination of the problem or need being addressed, description of the proposed project and its goals/methods, budget, and any other required sections like a cover letter or information about your organization. The overview should summarize the purpose, outcomes, assessment of success, and importance of the project. The problem statement must demonstrate the need for the project through data and research. The project description then explains how the goals will be achieved and measured to effectively address the identified need.

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    This document provides guidance on the key elements to include in a successful grant proposal, including a short overview, examination of the problem or need being addressed, description of the proposed project and its goals/methods, budget, and any other required sections like a cover letter or information about your organization. The overview should summarize the purpose, outcomes, assessment of success, and importance of the project. The problem statement must demonstrate the need for the project through data and research. The project description then explains how the goals will be achieved and measured to effectively address the identified need.

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    Element Details

    Here you present the most important elements of your


    proposal in as few sentences as possible. For longer
    proposals, you might be able to use a full page for this
    overview, but for other proposals, you might have to condense
    it to just one paragraph. Either way, make sure that you
    answer:
    • What is the purpose or goal of your project, the need you’re
    addressing, or the problem you’re solving?
    • What are the expected outcomes of your project, and how
    will you achieve them?
    • How will you assess or verify the success of your project?
    • Why is your project important?
    • Briefly, who are you?

    Some granting institutions may also want you to clarify in this


    summary the kind and amount of funding or other support you
    are asking for. Let the mission and purpose of the granting
    agency inform your abstract. You might even want to
    incorporate key terms and concepts from the organization’s
    mission statement into your summary. While the summary or
    Short Overview abstract may be the first element of your finished proposal, it’s
    (a.k.a. "abstract" or often best to write it last. Wait to tackle this abbreviated
    "executive version of your project until after you’ve written all the other
    summary") parts.
    Your project is important because it is responding to a gap in
    resources, knowledge, or opportunity that really needs to be
    filled. In order to establish the value of your project, you need
    to clarify the need or problem that your project responds to.
    Early in your proposal, make sure that you establish the
    Examination of a context of this problem (i.e., the background). If this problem
    Need or Problem affects a particular population, describe that group of people.
    (a.k.a. “statement Include data if appropriate. Particularly for academic grants,
    of need,” “problem this examination may take the form of a short literature review
    statement,” clarifying that you’ve read extensively on this topic and
    “statement of understand your project’s scholarly context and significance.
    problem,” “needs But even for academic grants it's important to clarify why this
    assessment,” or project will make a wider, positive impact and not just how it
    “literature review”) will answer a specific academic question.
    Element Details

    Now that you’ve established a need for your project, you have
    to describe your project. Make sure you answer these questions:
    • What are the goals of your project or your research
    questions?
    • What are the goals of your project?
    • What will your project’s outcomes be?
    [As with many other kinds of outcomes, grant proposal
    outcomes should be SMART—specific, measurable,
    achievable, realistic, and timely.]
    • How are you going to achieve those outcomes? What
    methods will you use?
    • How will you measure or recognize your project’s
    achievements?
    • How can you be sure that your project will productively
    Description of respond to the need or problem you have identified?
    Your Project • What will the timeline for your project be?
    (a.k.a. “project
    narrative”; “project Several of these questions focus on the impact your project
    goals, objectives, will have. Delineating the impact is important because funders
    and methodology”; want to see that you’ve clearly established the realistic
    or “strategies and benefits of your work along with how you plan to verify and
    tactics”) assess your achievements.
    Since you are asking for funding or other support, you need to
    clarify just what you’re asking for and why you are asking for
    particular amounts. Budgets are often formatted in tables and
    figures. Each amount should be clearly labeled, and you might
    need to directly follow your budget with a justification
    Budget statement explaining why each cost, material, and equipment
    (a.k.a. “resources”) is valid, reasonable, and important for your project.
    Other Sections
    Sometimes Cover Letter
    Required Sometimes grant proposals are preceded by a cover letter.
    These often serve to personally introduce you as the grant–
    seeking individual/organization, establish your ethos and
    professionalism, briefly describe your proposed project, and
    convey enthusiasm for the project and appreciation for the
    readers' consideration
    of your request.
    Element Details

    Organizational Qualifications
    When you are representing a nonprofit organization,
    sometimes you need to devote a full section to describing the
    nature, mission, and function of your organization. Often this
    comes near the section where you examine a problem.

    Supporting Documents
    You may need to provide a range of supporting materials at
    the end of your proposal—usually in the form of appendices.
    These might consist of additional records, endorsements, tax
    status information, personnel bios for your organization’s
    employees, letters of support from allied organizations or
    groups partnering with you in your project, etc. All of this
    documentation should be clearly related to your proposal and
    may be requested by the granting institution.

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