PULLING IT ALL TOGETHER
Drafting a compelling need statement is admittedly one of the more challenging tasks for a grantwriter. If you fail to present a worthy need (in other words, if the antagonist is not a believable villain), the reader is apt to have doubts about the validity of the request or to stop reading altogether. I hope I gave you many tips that you’ll find useful the next time you sit down to write this section. One final proposal excerpt (Example 5.11 on the next page) does an outstanding job of pulling it all together.
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