Write a narrative that describes the evaluation of your proposed intervention and develop a budget for it.

Evaluation Narrative and Budget

Write a narrative that describes the evaluation of your proposed intervention and develop a budget for it.

Evaluation Narrative: The goal of a section devoted to evaluation is to illustrate how your organization plans to assess whether the methods selected accomplish the goal and objectives described in the grant proposal. To this end, consider the content of your post in your Importance of Evaluation discussion this week and the feedback that you received. Then, write a concise narrative that is intended to demonstrate to the funder that your organization can evaluate outcomes and determine whether they accomplish the stated objectives. Ensure your evaluation narrative is concise and concrete. In this section:

· Identify the objectives of the intervention.

· Define what your organization considers a successful intervention so that the data can be used to determine whether the intervention was or not successful.

· Describe the types of data to be collected.

· Identify the method(s) to be used for data collection, including comparison groups or baseline.

· Choose the instruments to be used for data collection.

· Develop the timeframe for the assessment plan (including data collection, analysis, and evaluation).

· Identify the person or persons responsible for collecting and analyzing data and conducting the evaluation.

· Explain how evaluation results will be used.

· Identify the recipients of the evaluation report (including funder, board, constituents, and community leaders).

Budget Section: The budget section is aquantitative summary of the proposal that substantiates the proposal, supports the objectives, matches the activities, and validates the amount requested as being reasonable and sufficient. To do so, it describes how the funds will be spent to support the proposed intervention and describes the applicant’s contributions and/or contributions from other funding sources. The budget is an estimate of what your cost will be.

Please use the format below to construct your grant’s funding request budget. Be sure to account for all aspects of your proposed intervention. Keep in mind that some items may not apply. Search the internet for facts and figures to complete the budget. Estimates do not need to be exact but they should be within a reasonable range.

EXPENSES TOTAL BUDGET IN-KIND CONTRIBUTIONS & INCOME
Item: Source:
Salaries & Wages Government Grants & Contracts
(break down by individual position)
Foundations (specify)
Fringe Benefits & Payroll Taxes
(estimated at 20 percent) Corporations

Consultants & Professional Fees Religious Institutions
Travel
Equipment Individual Contributions
Supplies
(itemize general categories) Fundraising Events

Training Membership Income
Printing & Copying
Telephone & Fax In-Kind Support
Rent & Utilities
Other (specify)
Other (specify)

TOTAL EXPENSES: TOTAL INCOME:

     BALANCE (requested funds):   

In a real grant proposal, you are often asked to justify each expense item. Since the current budget is hypothetical, it is not necessary for you to provide a narrative that justifies each of the expenses listed.

The Evaluation Narrative and Budget paper:

· Must be three to four double-spaced pages in length (not including title and references pages) and formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center (Links to an external site.) .

· Must include a separate title page with the following:

· Title of paper

· Student’s name

· Course name and number

· Instructor’s name

· Date submitted

· Must use at least five reliable sources, either peer-reviewed or scholarly, in addition to the course text. Be sure to integrate your research rather than simply inserting it (see the UAGC Writing Center’s Integrating Research (Links to an external site.) for assistance).

· The Scholarly, Peer Reviewed, and Other Credible Sources (Links to an external site.) table offers additional guidance on appropriate source types. If you have questions about whether a specific source is appropriate for this assignment, please contact your instructor. Your instructor has the final say about the appropriateness of a specific source for a particular assignment.

· Must document all sources in APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center.

· For assistance, go to the UAGC Writing Center’s In-Text Citation Guide (Links to an external site.) and In-Text Citation Helper: A Guide to Making APA In-Text Citations (Links to an external site.) .

· Must include a separate references page that is formatted according to APA style as outlined in the UAGC Writing Center.

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