One thing I wanted to focus on from this chapter was the definitions and differences between an organizations goals and objectives. First off, I appreciated the chapter making note that everyone, at some point, struggles at first when writing their goals and objectives while making sure they don’t overlap in any way. The table they provided was helpful to me in being able to visually see how it should look and then read examples. I think it’s important to note too that what an organizations goals and outcomes look like always (like in many other facets of grant writing) depends on the funders guidelines. Having everything relate back to one hard set of guidelines is grounding for me because it allows me to check myself on where I may be overworking or losing focus. This idea goes hand and hand with another point the chapter makes about triangulating the goals and objectives with the problem statement. Seeing that in most cases the problem statement will already be written, it can act as a home base for what needs to be answered or made into a quantifiable statement.
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