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Grantee: [Grant Number][Grantee Institution]

Report: [Year here] Final Report

Final Report Cover Sheet

1. PR/Award No.:

2. Program:

Congressionally-Directed Projects 

3. Institutional Name & Address:

[Institution Name]

[City, State] 

4. Project Title:

5. Project Director / Contact Person:

Name:

Title:

Address:

Phone:

Fax:

Email:

6. Performance Reporting Period:

7. Current Budget Period:

8. Authorized Representative:

Name:

Title:

Phone:

I. Project Description

Project Title:

Abstract:

Online References: [project Web site if available]

Subject Categories:
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Contacts: [All project contacts here]

Name:

Title:

Address: 

Tel:

Fax:

E-mail:

II. Budget Summary

Project Funds Awarded by OPE

Expense

(1)Budget (2)Expenditures

(3)Estimated Balance

A. Administrative Costs

1. Salaries $0

2. Benefits $0

3. Travel $0

4. Equipment $0

5. Materials $0

6. Consultants & Contracts $0

7. Other $0

D. Indirect Costs $0

Total $0 $0 $0

Project Cost Share Totals Provided by Institution (and Partners if applicable)

Expense (1)Budget (2)Expenditures

(3)Estimated Balance
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Total Cost Share $0

Budget Narrative:

III. Performance Information

Please make sure you answer all of the following items. If any questions do not apply to 

your project, enter "N/A" in the text box. In each text box, leave a space between 

paragraphs.

1 What is the primary purpose of your Congressionally-directed grant?

( ) Purchase equipment, computers, or other technology

( ) Initiate a new academic program

( ) Support an ongoing academic program

( ) Provide general administrative support

( ) Provide financial aid to students

( ) Provide support for research activities

( ) Provide enhanced student services to disadvantaged students and others

( ) Other

2 If the purpose of the grant was to support new or ongoing academic programs, in 

which area(s) of study? (check all that apply)

( ) K-12 education, including teacher education

( ) Science education

( ) Health care education

( ) Distance education

( ) Humanitites or arts education

( ) Civic/leadership education

( ) Vocational education

( ) Homeland security

( ) Unspecified curriculum development

( ) Other

3a Are the objectives and impact of your project being evaluated as described in your 

approved grant application?

( ) Yes

( ) No
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3b If you answered "No," please explain.

4a Do your evaluation activities suggest that the project has been effective in meeting 

the purposes established by Congress for the grant?

( ) Yes

( ) No

( ) Too soon to say (annual reports only)

4b If you answered "No," please explain.

5 Does your evaluation suggest that the Congressionally-directed project has resulted 

in increased student access to, or retention in, an institution, program or discipline?

( ) Yes

( ) No

( ) Too soon to say (annual reports only)

( ) Not sure

( ) Not applicable

6 Does your evaluation suggest that the Congressionally-directed grant project has 

resulted in improved student learning?

( ) Yes

( ) No

( ) Too soon to say (annual reports only)

( ) Not sure

( ) Not applicable

7a Has your project received any internal or external funding in addition to this 

Congressionally-directed grant?

( ) Yes

( ) No

7b If you answered "Yes," what kinds of additional funding? (Check all that apply)
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( ) Other Congressionally-directed grant(s)

( ) Merit-based federal funding

( ) Additional institutional funding

( ) State funding

( ) Corporate or foundation support

( ) Other

8 Please list the kinds of activities, products, and resources resulting from your project 

since the beginning of the grant. (Check all that apply)

( ) Project-based conferences or symposia

( ) Conference presentations

( ) Course modules

( ) Project-specific Web site

( ) Textbooks

( ) Software programs

( ) Conference proceedings

( ) Books

( ) Video materials

( ) Guides and handbooks

( ) Printed course materials

( ) Web-based course materials

( ) Technical reports

( ) Journal articles

( ) CD-ROMs/DVDs

( ) Other (Please write in other)

9a Has your project director changed during this reporting period?

( ) Yes

( ) No

9b If you answered "Yes," please provide the name, title, address, telephone, fax, and 

E-mail address of the new project director?

10a OPE serves Congressionally-directed grantees through prompt review of proposals 

for funding, distribution of information about managing grant projects, and 

technical assistance on project-specific issues. Please rate the overall quality of 

OPE's service to your project:

( ) Superior
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( ) Very satisfactory

( ) About average

( ) Somewhat unsatisfactory

( ) Very poor

10b If you rated OPE's service as less than "Superior," tell us how our service could be 

improved.

IV. Performance Narrative

(attachments in Word, Excel, or PDF)

INSTRUCTIONS FOR COMPLETING SELECTED PRECEDING 

SECTIONS OF THE REPORT:

Report Checklist

Grantee: [Grant Number][Grantee Institution]

Report: [Year here] Final Report

indicates completed sections - all sections must be checked before the report can be 

submitted. 

Section Status Update Preview

Project Description Update

Budget Summary Update

Performance Information Update

Performance Narrative Update

Submit Complete Report n/a n/a 

Final Report: A final report is due no more than 90 days after the end date of the project.

Please complete the following sections of the report:

1. Project Description. Please update your database description to include the activities and 

accomplishments of this performance period contact information. 

2. Budget Summary. Please complete the Budget Summary and provide a detailed budget 

narrative in the Budget Narrative section explaining the components of each line item, 

e.g., "Salaries - $20,000 (.25 FTE @ $80,000)." If you are not expending funds at the rate 

expected, explain why. Identify changes to your budget resulting from modifications of 

project activities described above. Unless notified otherwise, the balance of unexpended 
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funds will be available for you to obligate funds through the end of the project period 

and, after the project ends, available for payments (but no new obligations) during an 

additional liquidation period of 90 days. 

3. Performance Information. This is a questionnaire. 

4. Performance Narrative. Please provide a report narrative detailing the activities, 

successes, and difficulties that your project experienced during the entire project period. 

Upload your essay and other appendices as attachments in this section. The upload 

function is similar to that used to attach documents to an e-mail message. 

5. Cover Sheet. After you have completed the first four sections of the report, you will be 

able to submit your information to OPE. You will click on "Submit" twice. The first time 

you click on the "Submit Report" button, a cover sheet will be generated automatically 

for your review, based on the information you provided. All sections of the cover sheet 

are pre-populated, except for the items on Authorized Representative and person 

completing the report at the bottom of the page, which must be completed. After 

completing these two items, click on the final "Submit" button to send the complete 

report to us. 

I. Project Description

Grantee: [Grant Number][Grantee Institution]

Report: [Year here] Final Report

Update Project Abstract

Enter your project title and a brief abstract in the form provided below. You may copy and paste 

your abstract using a word processor or text editor, or you may type in your abstract manually.

Regardless of the method you choose, your abstract should follow these guidelines:

 Each time you update your abstract, remember to discuss all major work tasks completed 

to date as well as current and future activities to be performed during the project period. 

In this way, successive updates of your abstract over time will increasingly be stated in 

the past tense. The final abstract written in conjunction with your final report will be 

worded almost entirely in the past tense. 

 Your abstract should contain three to five paragraphs but be fewer than 4,000 characters 

in length. 

 Leave two spaces between sentences and one line break between paragraphs. 

 Do not use bold, italic, underlining, or any other character formatting. 

 Do not use tabs or indentation. 

 Do not use free-standing headers. Instead, begin the first line of the paragraph with a 

header, if necessary. For example, "Awards and Honors: The project director ..." or 

"Wanted: Volunteers to help pilot ..." 

 Put acronyms in parentheses after the full name of a program or organization when first 

mentioned. Then use the acronym from that point forward. Example: "Developing New 

Leaders (DNL)." Do not use: "DNL (Developing New Leaders)." This also applies to 

project titles. 

 For consortia or group projects, use the first paragraph to list each partner institution or 

organization (not units within each) and its state location, excluding the grantee 

institution and separating each partner with a semicolon. For example, if the grantee is 

Portland Community College, the first paragraph would be formatted like this: "Partners: 
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Prince George's Community College (Maryland); American University (District of 

Columbia)." 

 If applicable, conclude your abstract with a final paragraph leading off with the following 

words: "Awards and Honors: ...." Be sure to include the name and date of the award and 

the name of the awarding organization. 

Grant Number

Project Title

Abstract

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IV. Performance Narrative

Grantee: [Grant Number][Grantee Institution]

Report: [Year here] Final Report

Instructions

The main purpose a performance report is to summarize and describe the progress of your 

project toward achieving its goals and objectives. 

Final Reports: In a narrative of five to ten (5-10) double-spaced pages, describe the activities 

and accomplishments of the project for the entire project period. Discuss your progress on 

meeting each of the goals and objectives originally established for the project. Also discuss any 

difficulties you may have encountered in meeting the established goals and objectives within 

the project timeline, and how you resolved those difficulties. Describe any modifications to 

approved project activities during the project period. Explain why planned objectives were not 

attained or why scheduled activities were not implemented. Add other pertinent information on 
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the progress of the grant project, as appropriate. 

Upload your narrative by clicking on the "Upload" button at the bottom of this screen.

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