How To Do It

Timeline options are many. Select the type of timeline that makes most sense for your program or your agency. Options include Gantt charts, PERT charts, and others. Whatever option you choose, your timeline should address some important questions:

• What activities are needed (e.g., obtaining resources, hiring personnel, recruiting participants)?
• When does each activity begin and end, or when is an activity repeated?
• What time frame (e.g., weeks, months) is most suitable for your communication plan?
• When will selected activities identified in your timeline be accomplished?
• When will the outcomes/deliverables resulting from your program objectives be due?

Budgets should be built from the ground up; that is, they are based on your goals and objectives as well as your methods. This structure ensures that the goals, objectives, methods, and activities justify your budget and vice versa. Factors that most often make up budget items are included in the proposal summary outline below:

Proposal Summary
I. Introduction, Background, and Justification
II. Problem Statement
III. Program Goals and Objectives	(include outputs and deliverables according to projected timeline)
IV. Methods	(include steps to be accomplished to provide outputs and deliverables)
V. Evaluation	(provides ongoing assessment of program's productivity and efficient use of resources)
VII. Budget	(equates the requested and donated resources with outputs, deliverables, and timeline of your project)