Dashboards Aren't Just for Cars

Anyone heard of dashboards? No, not the ones in your car or SUV, but the one used by businesses to help in reporting and quality control. More and more, nonprofit organizations are also realizing the potential of using simple dashboards to keep an eye on programs, control expenses and report back to constituents.

We Recommend: Purdue Proposal Enhancement Tools

Grant writers often find themselves struggling to define key sections of their grant proposals... who and where is our target audience, what impact do we expect our program or project to achieve, how will we evaluate success? Really, this is the meat of the proposal, yet many don't have enough information to adequately describe it. Program officers don't seem to have time to sit and explain it all to us, and evaluation methodologies are too often outside our area of expertise. If only there were some handy dandy tools to assist us in understanding what information we need, where to find it, and how to craft it into a powerful proposal.

Well, good news, there are just such tools! The Purdue Proposal Enhancement Tools, to be exact.