 Proposal
Checklist and Review Worksheet
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Purpose:
The "Proposal Checklist and Review Worksheet" serves two very
important purposes in planning and preparing your funding proposal.
- First, you can use it as a guide or outline in writing the proposal,
to make sure you're including all the key components and in a logical
order.
- Second, you can use it to do a self-review once you've drafted the
proposal, to make sure you've addressed all the major questions and
written the proposal in a clear, interesting manner.
Using the Worksheet:
The contents of the "Proposal Checklist and Review Worksheet"
are self-explanatory, covering the eight major sections of a typical proposal:
- Proposal Summary
- About the Applicant
- Issue Statement
- Targets and Outcomes
- Methods/Strategies
- Evaluation
- Future or Continuation Funding
- Budget
In using the checklist, you can either simply check "yes" or
"no" in response to each item; or, if appropriate, you can give
each item a numerical rating from 1 to 5 to indicate how well or poorly
the proposal addresses that particular issue.
This worksheet is especially effective in team reviews. Ask a colleague
whose opinion you respect, but who is not involved in the proposal process
with you, to use the worksheet to rate your proposal. Ask for specific
feedback, then use that feedback to fine-tune your proposal before submitting
it to your prospective funder.
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