Productivity
Report to a funder
Progress against what was promised, including what did not happen.
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The proposal, the data and the spend.
Not against what turned out to be easy.
Budget and outcomes both.
Your prompt
Write the funder report from . Report against the COMMITMENTS in the proposal, in the same order and using the same measures. A report organised around what went well is read as an answer to a question nobody asked, and the funder then has to find each commitment themselves. Explain the variance on both outcomes and budget. Underspend needs an explanation as much as overspend, and an unexplained one reads as a programme that did not happen. Say what did not work. Funders who fund repeatedly know every programme has something, and a report without one is either incurious or not candid. Attach the evidence rather than describing it, and keep the narrative short.
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Why this works
A report organised around what went well makes the funder find each commitment themselves. This reports against the proposal in its own order and measures, explains underspend as well as overspend, and includes what did not work.