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The Funded Paragraph Checklist

The five elements every winning Need Statement contains — with a fill-in-the-blank template you can use on your next grant proposal.

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Most grants aren’t lost because the program is weak. They’re lost because of one paragraph — the one reviewers use to decide whether to keep reading or move on. This one-page checklist walks you through the exact five-element pattern I use with clients to write a Need Statement that keeps reviewers reading to the end.

What’s inside

  • ✓The five elements every funded Need Statement contains, in the right order
  • ✓The specificity test that separates fundable proposals from generic ones
  • ✓A fill-in-the-blank template you can complete in under 30 minutes
  • ✓The single mistake AI-generated grants make — and how to correct it
  • ✓A before-and-after example so you can see the pattern in action