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Tips for Applicants
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Technical Tips for
Business Plans
The technical aspects of the business plan will
be reviewed against the following evaluation guidelines. The technical
component of the plan should be written so that these criteria are
addressed to the fullest extent possible and statements should be
qualified with more detailed information as is outlined on the
following page.
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General Tips for
Business Plans
The following page identifies some general tips
and best practices meant to assist in the development of a business
plan to be submitted to the Broadband for Rural and Northern
Development Program for implementation funding. These guidelines have
been identified from the last round of business plans submitted to the
program.
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Best
Practices for Preparing Proposals
An analysis of a subset of
proposals was conducted to identify practical actions to help
communities prepare proposals for business plan development funding.
The Best Practices are identified in the subset of proposals. These
are composite profiles that reflect lessons learned from the analysis
of this subset and are not based upon any specific proposal.
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Six Key Success
Factors
An analysis of a subset of proposals was conducted in
order to determine the “readiness” of communities’ for broadband
access. Six key factors have been identified that distinguish strong
proposals from the weak ones in the round of business plan funding
requests. This document also describes these factors and compares and
contrasts the typical approaches of communities that prepared strong
proposals with those that prepared weak proposals. These are composite
profiles that reflect lessons learned from the analysis of the subset
and are not based upon any specific proposal.
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