Good Example of an Abstract/Project Description:
The National Forest Service, in partnership with the National Park Service, seeks funding to develop a byway organization that works closely with the gateway communities of Groveland and Lee Vining, and other key byway partners including Caltrans. The Forest Service, Pacific Southwest Region will take the lead in organizing an interagency approach, partnering with the National Park Service, Yosemite National Park to:
- Develop an outreach strategy to involve communities, groups, partners, friends groups, and other stakeholders with an interest in participating in a byway organization.
- Conduct a series of community meetings to identify interest, capacity, commitment, goals, objectives, and key participants.
- Conduct meetings/workshops/training with the core Yosemite Byway Organization to finalize working group/Board of Directors, identify goals and objectives, develop a Charter and Bylaws, initiate a membership drive, and develop a CMP implementation strategy.
- Send small contingent of core Yosemite Byway Organization members to the 2009 National Scenic Byway Conference.
The development of the Yosemite Byway Organization benefits the byway traveler by providing a committed group of community-based individuals who will work together with Federal agencies to develop and implement strategies to enhance the byway’s intrinsic qualities identified in the CMP and promote a strong foundation of support in the gateway communities of Groveland and Lee Vining.
This is a good example because it:
- Is simple and well-focused
- Summarizes what the project will do with a bulleted list (i.e., build a sustainable byway organization to assist in determining next steps to enhance and implement the Tioga/Big Oak Flat National Scenic Byway Corridor Management Plan)
- Describes what the benefit to the byway traveler will be
- Only provides the information the reviewer needs to determine eligibility
