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Category: Program Planning and Design Proposal Writing and Grantseeking There comes a time when a proposal needs to include a logicmodel. A logicmodel is a picture of how your program is intended to work. A speed bump for a lot of people is the “outputs vs. outcomes” element of a logicmodel.
Category: Proposal Writing and Grantseeking Before campaign advisors, spin doctors, influencers or ad men, there was the Greek philosopher, Aristotle. As proposal writers, we sometimes get lost in the weeds of data, logicmodels, detailed methods and other granular stuff. The first of these is ethos.
The order in which our team recommends you approach pre-planning is to create drafts (not finalized, not set in stone, but working documents that are a starting point for the real application) of the three following elements: Logicmodel – A draft of the key elements of your program/project design.
Becoming familiar with the theory of change and the logicmodel behind the program design can help us write a narrative that explains how we know that doing something in a certain way can be expected to achieve certain results. . We can expect certain results: participants will feel less isolated and more connected with others.
It is the soul of your proposal, usually the first impression people have of your case, and the way you introduce your work to a funder. Everything should return to your stated need as it sets the tone for the rest of your proposal. And that is before you even get to character counts!
But with proposal narratives that can reach 60+ pages in length, adding creative touches to break up a heavy narrative can make a federal proposal more readable and thus easier for reviewers to assess. The following summarizes ways in which I try to make my proposals stand out. The logicmodel. My outline?
In logicmodel language (check this out to learn why logicmodels are essential), outputs are the direct results of your activities. It isn't easy to write a competitive proposal without them. Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC is Founder and CEO of Think and Ink Grant Consulting™. outcomes win grants.
Learning the difference between goals, outcomes, and outputs is key to writing competitive proposals. Our team at Think and Ink Grants Consulting® uses S.M.A.R.T. outcomes in our logicmodels. Our next article will bridge this information and communicate how goals, outcomes, and outputs inform logicmodels, so stay tuned.
This entails creating clear program logicmodels, outcomes frameworks, and evaluation plans that align with the organization's mission and vision.Partnerships and Collaborations: It cannot be emphasized enough that building partnerships and collaborations with other organizations, stakeholders, and funders is crucial. Mayer Consulting.
We can’t come in on gameday and put together a proposal without any preparation and expect to win big. First, you want to look for open opportunities, commonly referred to as requests for proposals (RFP), notice of funding opportunities (NOFO), grant or funding cycles, or simply funding opportunities.
However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logicmodels—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better. These are often perceived as disconnected from and less important than grant strategy. Fast forward to today….
The ripple effect of this practice is that people feel left out, and further exhausted and frustrated by being asked to design, execute, and participate in solutions for which they were never consulted. We like to represent our work like its clean, under control, and spot-on.
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