This attention to the bottom line is most evident in corporate funding sources, but the private sector is feeling the same pinch. A demonstration of your organization's fiscal responsibility will also augment your proposal. With the expected competition for available funds, no institution is going to have lower expectations of fiscal probity. A subset of productivity, and a method of broadening your list of potential funding sources, is the idea of replication. In this way, even a funding source that rarely supports programs outside of its particular geographic area can justify funding a program outside these boundaries.
Replication makes a local program nationwide.
It amplifies the success, the effects and the reach of your program. All of these are very positive attributes to funding sources in the 90's.