What does your first press release say to confirm and celebrate you’ve being successful in the bidding process? [This is a great opportunity to promote your library / library service more broadly so don’t waste the opportunity!] Are there points in the project that will make good PR / media opportunities (eg. when a new service first starts operating)? How will you promote these? Who will you invite? Can you make a 2 minute (max) video of your project featuring your users / create other communication assets to distribute? How can your partners and supporters help to promote your project? Reporting on progress: How and when will you communicate progress to decision makers within your / partner organisations? What is the requirement for regular progress reports to your funder? Have they provided you with a standard template? Are you clear about the deadlines? Who will compile the progress reports? Have you set up the necessary processes to have the required data available to inform your reports? Do you know the process you need to follow if you want / need to make amendments to the scope or detail of your project during the delivery phase? [Some funders can be more flexible than others on this, depending on the nature of the funding programme, but they recognise that sometimes circumstances beyond your control can arise that may make a change necessary. However, funders would all like notification and discussion in advance if something arises that significantly changes the nature of the project being funded so they can work with you to decide how best to address it] Lessons identified: How will you undertake retrospectives (looking at what went well, what went less well, and what you would do differently) and capture the lessons identified from the project? [Think about how you will do this at regular intervals during the project delivery phase, as well as at the end] How are you going to use this feedback to iterate and improve delivery during the life of the project? How are you going to use this feedback to improve delivery of subsequent projects? At the end of the project, how will you create a case study to share what you’ve done and what you’ve learnt with others (including links to any independent evaluation report where possible)? Where will you publish, and how will you publicise, this? How will you use the evidence gathered in any independently verified evaluation report to support future applications?
What does your first press release say to confirm and celebrate you’ve being successful in the bidding process? [This is a great opportunity to promote your library / library service more broadly so don’t waste the opportunity!] Are there points in the project that will make good PR / media opportunities (eg. when a new service first starts operating)? How will you promote these? Who will you invite? Can you make a 2 minute (max) video of your project featuring your users / create other communication assets to distribute? How can your partners and supporters help to promote your project? Reporting on progress: How and when will you communicate progress to decision makers within your / partner organisations? What is the requirement for regular progress reports to your funder? Have they provided you with a standard template? Are you clear about the deadlines? Who will compile the progress reports? Have you set up the necessary processes to have the required data available to inform your reports? Do you know the process you need to follow if you want / need to make amendments to the scope or detail of your project during the delivery phase? [Some funders can be more flexible than others on this, depending on the nature of the funding programme, but they recognise that sometimes circumstances beyond your control can arise that may make a change necessary. However, funders would all like notification and discussion in advance if something arises that significantly changes the nature of the project being funded so they can work with you to decide how best to address it] Lessons identified: How will you undertake retrospectives (looking at what went well, what went less well, and what you would do differently) and capture the lessons identified from the project? [Think about how you will do this at regular intervals during the project delivery phase, as well as at the end] How are you going to use this feedback to iterate and improve delivery during the life of the project? How are you going to use this feedback to improve delivery of subsequent projects? At the end of the project, how will you create a case study to share what you’ve done and what you’ve learnt with others (including links to any independent evaluation report where possible)? Where will you publish, and how will you publicise, this? How will you use the evidence gathered in any independently verified evaluation report to support future applications?
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