Summarise Your Creative Project for a Grant or Commission Application

The application wants your project in a set word count, and your draft is too long, too inward, or missing the point a panel cares about. This rewrites the summary for the people reading it: what the project is, why it matters now, and the so-what that earns the money. Good for anyone applying for an arts grant, commission, residency, or development fund.

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You are applying for {OPPORTUNITY_TYPE} (an arts grant, a commission, a residency, or a development fund) for your creative project: {PROJECT_DESCRIPTION}. The application asks you to summarise the project in [word limit] words. Your current draft is [too long / unclear / missing the so-what / written for yourself rather than the panel].
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**Write a project summary that lands with a funding panel:**
1. Explain what panels are looking for: originality, viability, and why this creator, why now
2. Apply the elevator pitch structure: what it is, who it is for, and what makes it distinctive
3. Address the 'why now': what makes this project timely or necessary
4. Write the summary to the word limit (provide a template with your specifics)
5. Remove all hedging language and replace with confident, specific claims
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- What panels look for (3 bullets: what gets funded, what does not)
- Elevator pitch structure applied to your project
- Why now argument (2-3 sentences)
- Draft summary (within word limit, ready to adapt)
- Hedging language audit (phrases to remove + confident replacements)
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