Trust The Process
The process in which a person or organization writes a proposal in response to a request/solicitation from another entity.
What is grant writing?
The Office at Oakwood that assists faculty and staff with applying for a grant.
What is the Office of Research and Grants?
The grant recipient's financial plan for carrying out the project of program.
What is a budget?
Non-repayable funds or products disbursed or given by a party (grant makers).
What is a grant?
An example of this type of grant is the Federal Pell Grant.
What is an education grant?
The name of the office that is located in most Universities that assist faculty/staff with applying for grants.
What is the Office of Sponsored Programs aka OSP?
A narrative on how you plan to spend the money if awarded the grant.
What is a budget justification?
The process of finding and agreeing to terms, and acquiring goods, services, or works from an external source, often via a tendering or competitive bidding process.
What is a procurement?
The way the government funds your ideas and projects to provide public services and stimulate the economy.
What is a federal grant?
A document written to a particular organization or funding agency with the purpose of persuading the reviewers to provide you with monetary support.
What is a proposal?
If your proposal involves research, the person that you need to get in contact with.
What is the Director of Research?
Funds provided as a result of winning a grant.
What is an award?
This includes the period of budget allocation. For example, for federal and state, it is October 1 of each year through September 30 of the following year.
What is a fiscal year?
An example of this type of grant is the Truist Bank grant to Oakwood which was used to purchase a cargo van.
What is a local/city grant?
A document that solicits proposal, often made through a bidding process, by an agency or company interested in procurement of a commodity, service, or valuable asset, to potential suppliers to submit business proposals.
What is a Request for Proposal or RFP?
What is the IRB aka Institutional Review Board?
These are costs not identified with a particular program or activity. For example, library resources, building maintenance, accounting, payroll, purchasing, administrative services, building maintenance and operation and depreciation of equipment.
What are indirect costs?
This shows, in table form, the expectations you have for the project you wish to be funded.
What is a logic model?
These types of grants are offered to individual states. They can be funds that are passed down from the federal government (in these cases the organization between your organization and the federal government is called the "pass-through entity"). An example of a state grant is the Alabama Department of Public Health Covid vaccine grant.
What is a state grant?
A phase of the procurement process in which the business actively solicits offers from competing suppliers through an invitation to bid or request for proposals.
The name of the person that approves the budget before submitting a proposal.
Who is the Chief Accountant?
A system for recording the amount of time an individual spends on federally funding activities and for ensuring federal grants bear their fair share for payroll charges.
What is Time and Effort?
The people in your community and organizations that will be impacted by the grant. These may include your local municipality, mutual aid organizations, public utilities, schools, churches, population groups, etc.
What is a stakeholder?
Free monetary assistance provided to individuals and small businesses by companies, citizens, government, and nongovernment organizations.
What is a foundation grant?