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The act of preparing an application to receive funding for a project or organization.
What is grant writing?
The grant-making agency or organization plans and develops a funding program
What is Planning an Opportunity?
The portion of costs not paid by federal funds.
What is Cost Sharing or Matching?
What is the Introduction/Abstract/Summary?
Funding Opportunity Announcement or Notice of Funding Opportunity
What is FOA or NOFO?
Specific, Measurable, Achievable, Realistics, Time-Bound
What is SMART?
The grant-making agency or organization announces the funding opportunity.
A sum of money given by a government or other organization for a particular purpose.
What is a Grant?
Identifies anticipated outcomes and benefits in measurable terms.
What is Program Goals and Objectives (Outcomes)?
Letter of Inquiry
What is LOI?
Any government grant maker (Federal, state, county, or local unit of government)
What is a Public Funder?
Potential applicants will use the Grants.gov search tool to find funding opportunities that they are eligible for and are a mission match for their organization.
What is Searching for Opportunities?
Procedures set forth by a funder that grant-seekers should follow when approaching a grant-maker.
What is Guidelines?
Describes activities that directly support the achievement of the objectives. A timeline may be included in this section as well as a description of staffing needs.
What is Methods/Implementation Plan?
Program Director
What is PD?
Also known as “Need Statement” or “Needs Assessment”
What is the Purpose of the Problem Statement?
These fields require everything from basic organizational information, to explanations of proposed work and financial data. When an application package has been completed per the opportunity instructions and checked for errors, it can be submitted through Grants.gov.
What is Completing an Application?
A graphic depiction (road map) that presents the shared relationships among the resources, activities, outputs, outcomes, and impact for your program. It depicts the relationship between your program’s activities and its intended effects.
What is a Logic Model?
Presents a plan for determining the success of the project at interim points and at the end of the project.
What is the Evaluation Plan?
Authorized Organization Representative
What is AOR?
Serve as the nation’s leading provider of quality data about its people and economy.
What is the US Census Bureau?
When the review process has been completed, the funding agency notifies the applicants whether or not they have been awarded a grant. The agency also begins working with the award recipient to finalize the legal framework for the funding agreement. Following this, the funds are disbursed.
How the project will continue when the grant funding ends.
What is Sustainability?
What is the Budget?
Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance
What is CFDA?