funder wants monthly reports on a 6 lakh grant. is it reasonable to push back and how
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It is reasonable and you should. Say it as a proposal, not a complaint: ‘Monthly reporting on this grant size would take roughly X staff hours per year, which is Y% of the grant. We would suggest quarterly narrative with a monthly one-line update by email, so more of the grant reaches the programme.’
Framed that way most funders agree, because you have shown them their own requirement is eating their own money. Framed as ‘this is too much work’, they hear an org that cannot handle compliance.
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used almost exactly this wording. they agreed to quarterly. i genuinely did not think that would work.
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