A budget is a key element of most grant proposals and serves as a blueprint for spending the project’s funds. An effective proposal budget outlines the proposed project in fiscal terms and helps reviewers to determine how the project will be conducted. The decisions made now at the proposal stage will continue through the life of the grant, and others will make decisions based on it at future stages. There is no question that preparing a reasonable budget and thoughtful budget narrative is crucial.
What You’ll Learn:
- the difference between a basic budget and a line-item budget
- how to create formulas for all expenses in a budget so funders understand how budgets were derived
- How to describe the reasonableness of the proposed costs
- How to provide short narrative which points to how the costs align with the narrative activities
- How to describe how funding will be spent in a letter proposal
Presented By: Julie Assel, GPC, CGMS, President/CEO Assel Grant Services
Course curriculum
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Welcome: Let's Get Started
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Video: Creating Effective Budget Narratives
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Session Evaluation
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Quiz: Creating Effective Budget Narratives
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About this course
- $50.00
- 4 lessons
- 1 hour of video content
The trainers for these sessions are all credentialed grant professionals (GPCs) through the Grant Professional Certification Institute, Approved Trainers with the Grant Professionals Association, and/or credentialed Certified Grant Management Specialists (CGMS) through the National Grant Management Association. All of the trainings in this series align with the CGMS exam classification system and the Grant Professionals Certification Institute’s competencies and skills and are approved for Continuing Education Units (CEU) by GPCI and CFRE International.