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| Re: controlling "wordiness"
Posted by Linda Procopio  on 3/27/2008, 12:18 pm, in reply to "Re: controlling "wordiness""
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I devote considerable time and care to Budget Narratives. Sometimes that's the only place where it makes sense to spell out powerful arguments that just don't fit into the flow of your Case for Support in your proposal narrative section. The Budget Narrative is a place where you can make INCOME notes,...like that the $25,000 you have in Individual Gifts came from a broad cross-section of over 1000 members of your community; or to note that your $50,000 in State Contract Income represents a 50% decrease in their historic levels of funding for your organization; or that your $200,000 in Corporate Gifts represent important new collaborations and are paired with in-kind technical assistance. I've use EXPENSE Line Items notations to more fully credentialize Consultants key to the project; or to elablorate more on specific inputs needed to make the project work. Many times I am sure that the information in the Budget Narrative "closed" the deal and captured the grant award. I know from sitting on various Boards that Budgets get more scrutiny than any other information in a grant proposal; and a completely transparent and reasonable accounting of where each grant dollar will end up will best defend the rest of your case for support. Although Budget Narratives are especially important when you are working with application forms with limited word counts elsewhere, in every proposal that doesn't specifically disallow a Budget Narrative, I always do one.
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