Final Reporting

You will be asked to provide detailed answers to the following questions:

• What is the purpose of your project? What is the problem or community issue that your request for financial assistance is seeking to address? If this is a general operating request, what is your organizations “why”? Why was your organization created?
• Please describe your project after completion. Was your project executed in the manner described? Did you have any issues or mid-course corrections? Etc.
• How will you know if you project is successful? What change did you hope to see if your program is successful? What metrics did you use to measure your success or gauge change? Be specific. Site expected service numbers, quantities of meals served, etc.  If this change is not visible in the community, why?
• Please respond to the expected outcome from your original grant request.See your original responses above. Were you able to accomplish the goals listed? If yes, why and how? If no, why and what lessons were learned?
• Who do you hope to begin a partnership or collaborate with in the future?If there are some target organizations that you hope to contact for programmatic collaboration or financial collaboration, please list them and explain “why” this collaboration would be beneficial.
• Was progress made on any of the planned collaborations written about in the application? Tell us about any new partnerships your organization entered into during the grant period, whether or not they were being considered at the time your application was submitted. Was the subject of this request impacted by these new partnerships, and if so how?

Include the attachments listed below.

• Fiscal Year Income statement during the time the grant was received (No tailored or redacted statements)
• Summary statement listing all expenditures paid with grant proceeds
• Copies of all invoices paid with grant proceeds.
• Original organizational budget as submitted with the grant.
• Any budget amendments approved through the year.
• Budgeted to actual income statement for the period ending with the grant funds being totally expended.
• Please include an explanation if grant funds were applied to any specific line items.

Please include a reimbursement check with the final report for the balance of any unexpended funds from the grant. Checks should be made out to the Wyoming Community Foundation.

*We will generally need your end-of-year income and expense statement; we will need invoices if you have received a project grant.

Provide a description of how the grant was used. For example, if you received funds to attend a conference include information about the conference and an evaluation based on your attendance and its impact. Or, if you received a grant to complete a particular course you should describe the course and include a certificate of completion or your grade for the course. Please clarify how this grant has impacted your position at your library and how it improved patron access.

It is very important to keep accurate records of how the grant funds were expended after you received the grant. Please note: We do not reimburse federal gas mileage.

• Summary statement listing all expenditures paid with grant proceeds. A summary statement is a typed list indicating at a glance how funds were paid out and should match receipts included in your report. It may sometimes include explanations of the included receipts if the amount on the receipt/invoice does not match your expenses e.g. if lodging expenses were split between two people.
• Copies of all invoices paid with grant proceeds. Please do not send original receipts.
• If the full amount of your grant was not used please include a reimbursement check with the final report. Checks should be made out to the Wyoming Community Foundation referencing the McMurry Library Endowment Fund.