10 Steps to 
Getting That Grant

• What are all of the promised deliverables?
• What is the cost of each deliverable (tying various activities or tasks to one or more line items in your budget)?

Managing the grant-funded program's implementation process (including the evaluation process) is as important as managing the grant's financial-accountability process. Grants management goes hand in hand with grant evaluation. The process and levels of accountability are linked at every turn when you prepare reports for the funders, who want to see the implementation progress along with the point-in-time expenditures. Finally, the program-implementation management plan allows you to forecast the funding needed for each week, month, quarter and year of the grant-funding cycle.