Read the eligibility list like a contract
Most rejected applications fail on eligibility, not quality. Incorporation date, employee count, revenue thresholds, provincial registration — programs publish hard rules and reviewers enforce them without sympathy. Check them first, then decide whether to write at all.
Mirror the program's own language
Every funding program has stated objectives. Your application's job is to show your project achieving those objectives — using the program's words. If the call says 'commercialization of clean technology,' the phrase 'commercialization of clean technology' belongs in your first paragraph, attached to a specific, dated, measurable outcome.
- One measurable outcome per claim
- Budget lines tied to activities described above
- Letters of support from real partners
- A reviewer outside your sector reads it once
The budget narrative
A budget reviewers can follow is a budget where every number traces to an activity in the proposal. Salary costs show the role and time period; equipment shows the quote; overhead shows the policy. Nobody funds a spreadsheet they do not understand.
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