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Proposing a Project Because there is so much recent interest in Proposing a project is a time uploading newspapers onto the Internet, funding consuming business and bodies have trouble regarding these endeavours as involves quite a leap of faith. unique, so it is necessary to showcase innovative You must present to the funding techniques or un-exploited material to make any agencies everything from the digitization proposal stand out during adjudication. biggest picture right down to the The GHPL proposed the digitization of two local smallest details about a project newspapers, but had secured full copyright that has not taken place yet. permissions to reproduce the full text of the Read the Planning A Project newspapers by their publishers, which is an unusual section for more detail. position. As well, the proposal included revitalizing the memory of Agnes Macphail, a local hero and first women elected to Canadian Parliament. No matter how unique or exciting a project may seem at the proposal stages, keep in mind that many projects may have to undergo more than one application process before successfully securing the necessary funding to go ahead. Essentially, every stage of the project must be planned out in advance to make a strong proposal. Read the next section on planning for an even deeper break down of the project components. What follows here is an overarching look at the components of a proposal. Project Outline Mission What are you & your organization hoping to achieve? Who or what will benefit most? Objectives Be concise about what you want to achieve, make your objectives measurable--this is invaluable as your organization can then measure progress but also gain some concrete statistics for planning future endeavours Goals Define each increment of what you want to accomplish using concrete terms Align your goals with a healthy recognition of how far your resources will stretch-- staff, primary material, equipment, skills, etc. Budget The scope of the project determines the budget, projects could range from in-house scanning by library employees using free services like Our Ontario to a hired facilitator managing the processing of large quantities of outsourced microfilming or from-print scanning, website and database construction, etc. Equipment, staffing, infrastructure, advertising, primary material and reproduction costs, software, mileage, administrative costs, shipping, and miscellaneous costs should all be factored in to the proposed budget 4