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How To Develop Winning Grant Proposals
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What is a Federal Grant? A grant is a monetary award given by a Federal Agency to a nonprofit organization, business, or government entity. How much grant money is available through the Federal Government? There is approximately $1 trillion dollars available annually for Federal grants. Probably the largest amount – over $700 billion – goes to state and local governments.
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Typical organizations eligible for Federal grants: Government organizations Educational organizations Public housing organizations Nonprofit organizations For-profit organizations
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What is the Grant Lifecycle? The Federal grant lifecycle process typically has three phases: Pre-award phase: announcement of funding opportunity; receipt of applications; and review of applications Award phase: award decisions and notifications Post-award: implementation of grant, reporting, and closeout
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 1: Determine what you want to do Step 2: Determine if there is Federal funding to support what you want to do Step 3: Identify the Federal Agencies (programs) that have grant programs that support what you want to do
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 4: Develop a strategic plan to create a winning grant proposal Identify specific programs and deadlines Identify key Federal people to contact Visit the Federal Agency Follow up with a brief White Paper Based on the critique, determine whether your idea for a grant proposal is likely to be effective
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 5: Develop the grant proposal Create a calendar of milestones, deliverables and key dates If you have not done so, register in Grants.Gov. Put together a detailed outline of the entire application Identify your proposal team and allocate responsibilities Hold a kick-off meeting Get started and adhere to your calendar!
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 6: Produce a complete first draft of the proposal This should include all the content requirements of the grant guidelines Include pictures, graphs, etc. This needs to occur at least two weeks before the deadline for submission
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 7: Do a Red Team review What is a Red Team review? Revise accordingly
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 8: Complete forms, appendices, biosketches, etc.
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 9: Do a Gold and White Glove review of the proposal Step 10: Check to ensure that your proposal is complete, compliant, and persuasive Step 11: Submit! Step 12: Create an electronic record of the proposal process
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How Do I Develop a Winning Grant Proposal? Step 13: If you win…. Step 14: If you lose… Step 15: Learn from the grants application process and become better at submitting competitive grant proposals
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