Grant Writing For Dummies, 5th Edition

Chapter 17

Connecting the Solutions to the Budget Request Line Items

In This Chapter

Orienting yourself to the basic budget components

Understanding matching funds

Calculating your budget with ethics in mind

Showing expenses for multiple years

Opting to use a fiscal sponsor

Many grant applicants create the budget section first, but it’s actually one of the last sections you should tackle. After all, you can’t develop an accurate budget for your grant request until you know all the costs involved in the funded project’s implementation. Where do these cost clues come from? The program design narrative (which I fill you in on in Chapter 15).

Your budget is connected directly to your project’s measurable objectives and implementation activities. And in order to achieve the measurable objectives, a series of implementation activities or process objectives must occur. The line items in ...