Purpose and Content of the Summary
When you want to know what a novel is all about, what do you do? You flip to the back or inside cover, and you read the two- to three-paragraph book summary, which either motivates you to want to read the book or signals that the book probably holds no interest for you. Well, the same premise holds true for grant proposals. A proposal summary—also referred to as an executive summary—is a sneak peek at what your proposal is all about. That means it needs to be good in order to stimulate the program officer’s interest in your project.
All proposals of more than five pages in length should contain a summary, and in most cases funders make a summary a required component of the proposal. The summary is a clear, ...
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