Grant Writing For Dummies, 7th Edition

Chapter 17

Preparing Project Management Plans and Sustainability Narratives

IN THIS CHAPTER

Presenting your grant project’s management team

Using staff with high-level credentials and/or experience

Including overall management capability information

Incorporating the sustainability plan

Offering up cash and in-kind leveraging resources for matching funds

Demonstrating federal compliance in the personnel section

After you tell the funding organization why you need its financial booster shot in your statement of need (see Chapter 15) and your project’s implementation plan (see Chapter 16), you need to explain who’s going to manage the grant-funded program and how the grant applicant organizations intend to sustain activities funded by the grant award. In this chapter, I show you how to write about existing and incoming staff in a way that convinces funders that you have the right personnel ...