This applies to both financial matters and subtask completion. We carefully track and best utilize all of our resources. It is also important to fulfill obligations for projects and follow through on to completion. The quickest way to kill a program like this is to make grandiose promises to your partners and fail to meet their expectations. To this end, each person responsible for a subtask is required to fill out a completion form and return it to the project coordinator.
Marketing is emphasized.
This has helped us stay in the funding loop both from an agency perspective in terms of staying competitive for Challenge Cost Share funds and also in our applications for various grants. The importance of outreach and expansion is recognized. One of the keys to continued success is to branch out both in the schools and in the community. To date a relatively small number of people have been responsible for most of the subtasks that have been completed. The same effort needs to happen at the schools.