How to write the proposals

How to write the proposals as per funders’ expectations…

·        International and local fundraising techniques…

How to write the proposals:

To write the proposal the social organization has to follow the following steps,

1.      Global objective

2.      Specific objective

3.      Summary of the project

4.      Problem analysis

5.      Solution analysis

6.      Methodologies

7.      Target beneficiaries

8.      Objective and Result

9.      Monitoring and Evaluation plan

10.   Sustainability of Project

 

Global Objective: Global objective may choose the overall impact of the society.  For e.g. reduce the poverty, reduce the unemployment, like that.  It is like umbrella concept of the project.

Specific objective: Specific objective is should more specific that what organization actually going to be work.  The specific objective should show the working region and note the specific stake holder.  For e.g. “Fight against Gender based violence for Dalit women in Pondicherry region”.

Summary of the project: Summary of the project should fix maximum 400 words. The summary of the project mainly explain about problem analysis and solution analysis with methodology. Summary of the project is the important part of the proposal. The funders mainly spend time to read the summary of the project and visit to website. If they impressed about your summary then only they go further.

Problem analysis: Problem analysis should write from field rather than from internet. The funders expect the field reality than statistics of research organization.  Data collection should collect from day to day activities of ongoing projects. It is already explained in the data collection part.

Solution analysis: Solution analysis is very important to tell the solution for project. At the end of the project the organization should change the society from base line stage to another stage. So solution is very important to receive the funds.

Methodologies: Varieties of methodologies are there to implement the project. For e.g. implement through field visit, program, meeting, workshops, individual meeting, group meeting, etc., so we should tell our methodology to implement the planned activities.

Target beneficiaries: Target beneficiaries should note at very specific manner rather than general. Inform the target group, their age limit. Especially the selection criteria of benificiaries are very important to inform to funders. So have to careful in this part. 

Objective and Result: Minimum three objectives can fix for proposal. Those objectives should indicate the overall impact of specific objective. Result is another important component of the proposal. Have to submit the result in a achievable manner. Result should qualitative than quantitative and also fix your result from your experiences.

Monitoring and Evaluation plan: There are two types of monitoring is there, one is internal monitoring and another one is external monitoring. Internal monitoring part should explain by the organization that what procedures they are following to collect the report, their weekly meeting, target tracking and beneficiaries tracking. At the same time it is very important to do external monitoring. In this part can do by your well-wishers, your volunteers, students and scholars from universities like that. It should very interest and innovative manner.

Sustainability of Project: The sustainability of project is very important to funders how the organization retains the result or strengthens the result. Every organization has its own plan to sustain their activities. Here we have to mention the organizational, project and team sustainability too.

Conclusion: This training is very much useful to share our thoughts and success. It gives very much mind change and given sprit to think about fundraising.