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Annual Progress Report

Evaluating the progress of our grantees is a vital part of our work.  We reflect on their experiences as we form judgments about which tactics and strategies are most likely to make a difference – and which don't.  Close and honest assessment also helps grantees gain useful insights into how they are advancing toward their goals, what they have learned, where they need to make course corrections and what’s over the horizon.

For these reasons, we require our grantees to submit narrative progress reports near the end of each one-year grant period. Multi-year grantees must submit progress reports near the end of each year of their awards.

Progress reports should address the following questions:

1. What have you accomplished during the grant period?  How have you measured your progress?  How have your achievements helped you approach your ultimate goals?
   
2. What planned activities and actions have you undertaken and completed to achieve results?  Describe how they operated to produce desired outcomes. What unplanned actions and activities did you undertake, and why?
   
3. What planned activities and actions were not undertaken or completed? Why were they not undertaken or completed? Will they be undertaken or completed in the future?
   
4. What lessons have you learned?  What tactics and strategies seem most likely to make an impact on the problems you have set out to address?  What efforts, in retrospect, no longer seem as likely to bear fruit as you anticipated, and why?