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Overview and Brief History of Your Organization;Background: demonstrates the need for the project, benefits that your project willprovide, and the nature and scope of the opportunity for your project;Goals and Objectives: What is it that your project will achieve? If possible, obtaincopies of the program agencies criteria and write your goals and objectives tothis criteria;Introduction: Explain your idea and show the information you now have from yourresearch about how your project fills a market demand. What is new or differentabout your project? How can the project sustain itself? What potential benefitswill your project provide (increased sales, information needed by others, socialbenefits, increased employment, etc.);Approach: What will you do to implement the idea and how (specifically) will yougo about doing this? This is often called the methodology;Time Frame: Include a workplan for the project indicating the goals, objectives,tasks, and time lines set for the project. Each objective should have the tasksassociated with it defined and including start & end dates, benefit, and targetgroup;Project Team: Who is going to work on this project and what are their positions?Who is going to supervise and be ultimately responsible for the project? Who isthe contact person? Include a résumé for each individual in the appendix;Deliverables: Explain exactly what you will produce for the funder (a final report,a demonstration model of a computer program, a workshop, a business plan,etc.) Be careful not to promise deliverables that you might not be able tocomplete, because the funder will hold you to what you have stated. Explain howthe project will be sustainable and how its success will be evaluated;Cost or Budget: Breakdown in a detailed manner (a spreadsheet is usually thebest) all costs associated with the project. Normally there are two types of costsassociated with a project budget: direct costs and fees. Direct costs include travel(define the number of trips, accommodation costs, per diems, etc.), printing,equipment rental, materials purchase, training materials, rent, communications,administration, etc. Fees should include the number of days per individual andtheir unit cost per day. It is appropriate to include G.S.T. under fees. It is alsoimportant to document any contribution that your organization is providing to theproject. This can include staff time, rent, phone/fax, etc. In this day and ageGovernment likes to see a contribution by the project proponent, even if its onlyin kind; andPg. 12