All Norfolk Community Foundation grants are routinely monitored, not just to advise the donor of the outcomes of their support, but to provide valuable lessons to inform our own grant making and to continue to work with the applicant to achieve the maximum from their project.  The lessons learned from methods and processes of project delivery can serve as best practice methods to share across the sector.  It also serves to keep recipients aware of truly achievable goals and successful methods of monitoring those successes.  Lessons learned from objectives not achieved can be as valuable as those that are achieved in helping to ensure good grant making for the future. 

Because NCF focuses on small grants delivery, it is mindful of the fact that the monitoring of a small award should not be too onerous for the recipient.  There are two stages of monitoring upheld by NCF:

• Four Month Telephone Monitoring: This is largely to ensure that there have been no problems in initiating the project and to offer assistance if there has, as well as current project progress

• End of Project Monitoring Report: Grant recipients will be required to complete and return an expenditure report at the end of the grant term, which will be sent to them along with the grant cheque. Selected projects will be telephoned or visited at the end of the grant term to report on final project progress.

Selected projects will be required to complete and return an expenditure report at the end of the grant term.