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Report Narrative
Please limit your narrative to four (4) pages
total. Some questions may not apply to your grant.
If you are reporting on a general
operating grant, please provide the following
information:
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Describe organizational
and/or programmatic achievements and setbacks
during the grant period. |
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Describe significant board and/or
staff changes during the grant period. |
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Explain how you measured the
effectiveness of your activities against your
goals and objectives. What have you learned? What
would you do differently? |
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Please submit actual end-of-year
income and expenses for the organization for the
year in which the grant was used. |
If you are reporting on a project, program, challenge,
matching,
technology or capital grant, please provide the following
information:
1. Results
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List the original
goals and objectives of the grant, and tell how
they were met during this reporting period. Include
the impact it made on your organization, community,
and/or the population served. |
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In what ways did the actual
project vary from your initial project plans?
Describe how/why. |
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Describe any unanticipated outcomes,
benefits or challenges encountered with this project,
including current status on meeting any special
terms of this grant. (For example, if this was a
challenge grant, did you meet the challenge?) |
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If applicable, attach selected
material relating to the funded project: press
or news items, brochures, letters of support,
photographs, etc. |
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Please submit actual end-of-year
income and expenses for the organization for
the year in which the grant was used.
If you are reporting
on a technology grant, provide the following
additional information:
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How has the
technology improved your communication or
management capabilities? |
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How has your staff adapted
to the new system, and how is the technology
being supported? |
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What future plans do
you have for upgrades or growth of this
technology? |
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2. Lessons Learned
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What are the most
important results and lessons you have learned
from this project? |
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How will you use what you have
learned to inform future work? |
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What recommendations can you
make to funders or others working in this field?
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If you were to undertake this
project again, what would you do differently? |
3. Future Plans
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What is your plan
for this project in the future? Briefly describe
rationale for ongoing funding, expansion, replication
or termination. |
3. Financials
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Using the original
budget included with your proposal, provide an
itemized budget of actual expenses and income
for the project for this period. Provide narrative
on any variances of 10% or greater from the original
project budget. Please align expenses and income
side-by-side. |
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Include a detailed, complete
accounting of how the specific grant dollars from
this grantmaker were spent, including project
financial statement if appropriate. Enclose your
most recent audit. |
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Who else has funded this project,
and at what level? |
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