Understand sponsor’s priorities and evaluation methods

• Agencies say this information in proposal guidelines is often ignored

Call program officer before preparing proposal for valuable insights on agency profiles.

• Ask for suggestions to improve your proposal
• Or is there another program whose priorities are a better match?
• Organize your proposal using sponsor guidelines and/or evaluation methods
• Make sure all the required sections are there and in specified order — Label sections the same way sponsor does so reviewers quickly locate the required sections
• Make note of page limitations, font and margin sizes.

If a proposal is rejected, ask sponsor for the reviewer’s comments. Rewrite the proposal addressing those issues. A resubmitted proposal can be, and often is, funded the second time around

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