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PROPOSAL NARRATIVE TEMPLATE

Lewis-Houghton Civics and Democracy Initiative Continuing Awards for 2026-2029 Notice of Funding Opportunity 030ADV26R0020

Please use this template for the cover page and details portion of the proposal narrative. Additional documents should be included as appendices. The cover page is a single page, and the project details may be up to 15 additional double-spaced pages in 11-point font.

COVER PAGE

Notice of Funding Opportunity Number

Working Title of Proposed Project

Applicant Name

Applicant Phone Number

Applicant Mailing Address

Applicant Email Address

SAM Number or EIN/TIN (as applicable)

Date of Submission

[The Remainder of the Page is Intentionally Left Blank]

PROJECT DETAILS

You may respond to the prompts below in the spaces provided or submit a separate narrative which addresses the prompts in-text.

This section of the Narrative should be no longer than 15 pages, double-spaced, and in 11-point font.

1. Project Abstract: Applicant must provide a summary of no more than 250 words of the proposed project.

2. Description of existing TPS/LHI grant products and activities: Applicant must provide a description of their tenure in the TPS Consortium, including the nature of interactions with other members. Applicants must provide links (as applicable), user testimonials, reviews, featured articles, research findings, etc., pertaining to the products, programming, and research (if applicable) created under previous TPS grant funding. Describe the processes by which they were developed; and activities undertaken to exchange resources and knowledge with other Consortium partners.

3. Detailed description of the proposed project: Applicant must provide a detailed description of the project for which funding is sought. Describe the proposed project’s targeted audience; methodologies and formats; the process by which it will be updated, revised, or enhanced, including the timeline, and all involved participants and their roles. Explain the rationale (referring to literature, research, evaluation, or insights gained from TPS consortium partners) for the approaches proposed in the application. Provide examples of how it will use Library of Congress digitized primary sources, including why they are uniquely valuable to meet the project’s learning and product goals related to history, civics, or democracy education. The project must expand the use of teaching materials, tools, and strategies developed under previous LHI award.

4. Articulated need and impact of your project: Applicant must provide evidence that the intended project will extend their outreach to groups of educators and learners they have identified as being underserved by the LHI program. Successful applicants will describe how they will support current and new audiences by reviewing and revising products they developed under LHI; modifying LHI products to enhance their value to educators and learners; and developing strategies and networks that facilitate outreach to targeted populations.

5. Projected performance targets: Applicant must provide performance targets the project is expected to reach. Include the projected numbers and types of educators and learners to be reached through distribution outlets over which the applicant organization has direct control. Please include information about the strategies, and dissemination partners, to be used to meet these targets. Include conferences, journals, and networks through which information and products about the proposed project will be shared.

6. Description of past activities: Applicant must provide brief descriptions of past activities relevant to the project proposed. Applicants must provide links (as applicable), user testimonials, reviews, featured articles, research findings, etc., pertaining to previously created curricula, apps/online interactives and instructional materials. Descriptions of the process by which previous tools and materials were created and distributed (who was involved, collaboration, processes established, etc.).

7. Description of past and future Consortium leadership: Describe the areas in which individuals on your previous grants have provided, and those on your proposed grants will provide, leadership within the Consortium. Please be specific about the population, pedagogical approach, content area, skill, program area, etc., about which you and colleagues have expert knowledge.

APPENDICES

Include the following as appendices as applicable:

· Appendix A – Logic Framework: Provide a logic framework that describes your proposed 3 years and 2 months project from start to finish, that includes at a minimum: project priorities, inputs, activities outputs, short and long-term outcomes, and impact. Applicants should identify key variables of success, assumptions, and need inputs.

· Appendix B – Descriptions: Descriptions, links, user testimonials, reviews, featured articles, research findings, etc., pertaining to previously created curricula, instructional materials and tools. Descriptions of the process by which previous tools and materials were created and distributed (who was involved, collaboration, processes established, etc.).

· Appendix C – Previous Activities: List and description of the applicant’s role played in similar federal, state and/or foundation-funded projects. List of previous and active Federal grant awards. List of previous and active Library of Congress grant awards.

· Appendix D – Proposed Staff: Provide names of the project director and other key staff with half-page descriptions for each person who will work on the award, if awarded.

· Appendix E – Letters of Support: Letters of support from senior staff of organizations identified as partners and subsidiaries in the proposal that clearly articulate the nature of their collaboration under the award proposal.

· Appendix F – Intellectual Property Rights: Applicant must describe any limitations on any intellectual property that will affect applicant’s performance of the cooperative agreement or the Library’s (or the public’s) subsequent use of any deliverable under the agreement. In particular, the applicant must: describe the intellectual property in sufficient detail, clearly state any limitations, and describe how the Library can use the work with the limitations described or proposed by the applicant. This information must be included in the Proposal.

· Appendix G – Accessibility: Applicants must describe how they will ensure that materials created with the funds provided will meet the Library’s accessibility requirements as stated in Section B of the Notice of Funding Opportunity.

o Other information as described in the Attachment to the Notice as applicable.

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