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How To Prepare A Grant Funding Timeline

How to Prepare a Grant Funding Timeline

Excerpted from “Grant Writing for Dummies”

What is a grant timeline?

A timeline in your grant application tells the grant reader when activities (also

called process objectives) will begin and end during the grant’s funding period.

What should my timeline include?

When you develop a project timeline, keep in mind that the grant reader wants

to see answers to the following questions:

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What key tasks or activities need to be carried out to implement the

program successfully?

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Did the grant applicant include all tasks, from the day funding is announced

or awarded to the last day of the project’s funding time frame?

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Can each task realistically begin and end in the proposed time frame?

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Are evaluation activities included in the timeline chart?

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Who's responsible for seeing that each activity is implemented and

completed?

What should my timeline look like?

You can use your word-processing software to create a simple timeline table, or

you can elect to go with a simpler text document describing key project phases

and details. Just be sure not to overdo it with color; stick with one or two shading

selections (gray or a light color so the reader can still read the text in the table’s

cells).

How To Prepare A Grant Funding Timeline