Proposal Development
Proposal development is a highly technical, collaborative, and iterative process. You need the right resources, processes, and team to not only secure funding, but deliver on your proposed work. When we work with you, we see ourselves as part of your team, and will help you put your best foot forward. Our proposal development services position you for a fundable future.
Ensuring Proper Funder Requirements
What is it? Ensuring proper funder requirements might be one of the most critical elements of proposal development. There are various levels of funder requirements that grant writers need to understand and be mindful of (not to be confused with proposal formatting). Requirements are listed in every RFP, RFQ, Federal Notice, Solicitation, etc. and exist around proposal language (definitions that may or may not be the word usage you are familiar with), where funds can be used and on what, questions that must be answered through the program’s data, qualifications, demographic priorities, specified documentation or tables, selection criteria, attachments, etc. Ensuring proper funder requirements oftentimes requires examining the fine print, footnotes, “letters,” or external links. If you don’t know where or what to look for, you can miss it.
There are many funder requirements in each grant proposal — especially at the federal level. In the proposal writing stage, you must be aware of specified content to include, where, and how. Our consultants can very quickly identify needed changes in or additions to your proposal, ensuring proper funder requirements, which will increase your chances of being funded.
How can we help you?
- Identify funder guidelines
- Review organizational or letter guidelines for funder specifications
- Review proposal for funder requirements
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For one project, it should focus on only one goal to address one problem/issue. To achieve the goal, there could be mutiple objectives (typically 1-3), all of which are related to the goal but should not be inter-dependent to each other.
Funders can have a specific requirement for concept papers. If they don’t, usually the categories fall as Summary, Need for the Work, Goals and Objectives, Activities, Impact, and Qualifications. Sometimes, larger funders require more structured categories. Either way, be sure to tailor it to their requirements, using their words, structure, etc. Be sure to have a hook, focus on impact and how it addresses the need, and use bold/italics/underline to draw attention to key points. Concept papers should never be longer than 5 pages.
Funders will often footnote requirments, definitions of requirements, or where the requirement came from. If any other source is mentioned, be sure to Google that source and make sure you are not overlooking an important document.
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