Due Date: November 1

Progress and financial reports are required of all BWF grants and are due on the date(s) specified in the award letter or agreement. The Advisory Committee and staff depend heavily upon progress and financial reports to evaluate progress. Late reports inconvenience advisory committee reviewers and impede BWF's evaluation of its programs. Failure to submit progress or financial reports in a timely fashion will result in payments being withheld, and if submissions are missed repeatedly, the award will be terminated.

BWF provides the following progress report guidelines to assist in preparing and submitting progress reports in an acceptable manner. The progress report and financial updates are to be submitted through Proposal Central. You can find the required deliverables listed on the home page after logging in to Proposal Central. Failure to submit any portion of the report by the due date will result in an interruption or cancellation of your funds.

If you need help using Proposal Central, please follow the instructions on their Customer Service webpage to contact their tech support team.

Progress Report

The progress report requires the awardee to submit a written report on the progress of the original or approved update to research project aims, an updated biographical sketch, a summary of research progress, and any recent publications. Details regarding each section are in Proposal Central. The progress report must be submitted annually on November 1^st.

Financial Report

Awardees are required to update award spending in the Proposal Central budget summary; awardees should report spending in the “expenses” column. Details regarding financial reporting are in Proposal Central. Financial reports are due annually on November 1^st.

Report Format

All progress and financial reporting materials should be submitted through Proposal Central. If you have questions, please contact our Program Coordinator, Lama Haidar (lhaidar@bwfund.org).

No-Cost Extension Requests

Awardees may request a no-cost extension (i.e., no additional grant funds to be provided) at least 30 days before the grant end date. To begin a no-cost extension request, please email our Program Associate, Eliza Gary (egary@bwfund.org) with a short description of the purpose for which the extension is requested. The request for a no-cost extension must be copied to the investigator and the appropriate representative of the investigator’s institution. The BWF team will then add an official no-cost extension request to your award on Proposal Central; there, the awardee should include a detailed explanation of the purposes for which the extension is requested. Directions are outlined in the award contract/agreement “General Terms and Conditions” and included in Proposal Central.

In general, extensions do not exceed 24 months. The Fund reserves the right to deny a request in whole or in part. If the request is approved, it will be incumbent upon the named investigator and his/her institution to provide annual progress and expenditure reports each year of the no-cost extension period and final progress and financial reports at the end of the no-cost extension period. BWF will request a return of all no-cost extension funds if progress report requirements and deadlines are unmet.