Narratives

In this section, describe your activities during the reporting period in more detail, and focused as described below.  Please limit your remarks to 1,500 words or less, approximately 1-3 pages in length.

  1.  Monitoring Activities

Describe how you assessed your subgrantees’ or site’s needs, if applicable.  Discuss how you conducted technical assistance and monitoring.  Describe how you imposed corrective measures, and otherwise encouraged continuous improvement.

  1. Successes and Challenges

Describe any factors you have found to positively or negatively influence program performance.  If you are a State Commission, please consider your entire portfolio, including your formula, competitive, and EAP subgrantees.   Use examples from particular subgrantees or sites, if applicable, to illustrate the trends that you see affecting your performance overall.  Your discussion may include but is not limited to enrollment, retention, recruitment, training, supervision, program and financial management, systems, data collection, evaluation, subgrantee capacity building, and resource development, including raising match funds.

Please describe your progress toward securing your match. Describe your efforts to ensure the sustainability of your program beyond the grant period.  You may include a list of match sources, strategic partnerships, in-kind resources, or capacity building efforts.  In particular, focus on successful strategies that may be useful to other grantees.

If your program did not fill or retain all of its awarded slots, explain why and identify the corrective actions you are planning to improve your recruitment and retention practices, or any planned reduction in slots requested.

  1. Great Stories

This section is optional. Share your great stories.  Highlight member activities which are especially reflective of the impact the program has in the community, or which illustrate an innovative or high successful aspect of program operation.

  1. Activities Related to Corporation Strategic Initiatives  

If your programs or sites have addressed any of the Corporation Strategic Initiatives particularly effectively, describe these activities here. The Corporation’s Strategic Initiatives are: