CBSF Grant Reporting Guide
Follow these steps for guidance on how to complete a final report for a NFWF CBSF grant
You've reached the end of your grant’s period of performance! Now it’s time to submit your final report. We’re here to help you prepare your FieldDoc pact to meet your reporting requirements.
This guide will walk you through how to prepare your FieldDoc pact so it meet's NFWF’s final reporting requirements. By the end of this guide, your pact will have digital representations of what work was implemented, where the restoration work occurred, how much impact it had on meeting target goals. NFWF Program staff will be reviewing your FieldDoc pact, which contains all of the activities records that you implemented, to make sure that it aligns with the information reported in Easygrants.
Your final updates in FieldDoc will involve a combination of the following steps: remove demonstration entries, create new activities, adjust activity extent, adding metrics, reporting implementation progress, or re-running models of sediment and nutrient loads.
Whatever your final report requires, this guide is designed to walk you through it—clearly and completely—so you can feel confident that your FieldDoc data meets the expectations for final submission.
This guide assumes that you have a basic understanding of how data is managed and shared in FieldDoc. If you are new to the system, we recommend looking at the documentation to orient yourself to how the system works.
Final Report Optional Tasks List
These are optional tasks you may need to perform to complete your final report:
Get Started. Find your Pact
Every grant award should have a single pact in FieldDoc. This pact will have all of the work that you proposed in your original application. When you open the Pact, you will arrive on the Pact Overview Page. Activity records can be added or removed from this pact.
Step 1. Check the activity records in your pact
A pact collects activity records from your organization's portfolio and shares them with a funder. The records that are linked to a pact remain in your organization's portfolio.
Do you need to make changes to the activity records linked to the pact? You can create or edit activity records within the existing pact.
Remove demonstration activities from your pact
When you submit your final report, all activity records should be verifiable sites. If you used demonstration data in your application, you'll want to de-link these activity records from the pact.
If you delete an activity record in your pact, it will be deleted from your portfolio. If you de-link the activity record, it will be removed from the pact but will remain in your workspace portfolio.
Create new activity records with verifiable implementation data
Need to add new activity records to your pact? You can either create new records in your pact or link existing records from your portfolio.
Each activity record may include the following information:
Edit existing activity records
All activity records should represent verifiable work that was implemented. You may want to review the activity record information for all activities in your pact.
Step 2. Update your Programmatic Metrics Implementation
Metrics are tracked within individual activity records. When you created your records in FieldDoc, you selected metrics from NFWF's programmatic metric list and set planned_values
for each metric. Now that you've arrived at the end of your period of performance, it's time to enter in your implemented_values
. From the Pact Metrics Tab, you can quickly enter in the implemented_value
.
Step 3. Add Completed_on
dates to all activities
Completed_on
dates to all activitiesWithin each activity record there is a field where you can enter the completed_on
date. This date should represent when the activity was installed to specification. This date is important because it is used by NFWF to complete NEIEN reporting requirements relevant to this implementation work.
Step 4. Review your data
Let's take a look at your Pact overview page and make sure that everything meets the requirements for NFWF.
Recipient organization is the same as the grant award recipient.
All "demonstration" data has been removed and replaced with verifiable representations of on the ground, implemented activities.
Models have been run with the latest extent data.
All Metrics listed on the Pact match what is listed in your Easygrants account.
All metric planned_values and implemented_values match what is listed in your Easygrants account.
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