Project planning involves a series of steps that determine how to achieve a particular community or organizational goal or set of related goals. This goal can be identified in a community plan or a strategic plan. Project plans can also be based on community goals or action strategies developed through community meetings and gatherings, tribal council or board meetings, or other planning processes. The planning process should occur before you write your application and submit it for funding.
Project planning:
- identifies specific community problems that stand in the way of meeting community goals.
- creates a work plan for addressing problems and attaining the goals.
- describes measurable beneficial impacts to the community that result from the project’s implementation.
- determines the level of resources or funding necessary to implement the project
