Understanding the Grant Life Cycle

Written by Allison Boyd

Dec 16, 2020

December 16, 2020

Grants don’t write themselves, so naturally there is a process. The life cycle of a grant helps you understand the policies and procedures of writing a grant, along with guiding you through the challenges of finding funding and applying for and managing your grants.

  1. Generate your idea
  2. Find your funding
  3. Develop your proposal
  4. Submit your proposal
  5. Manage your award

Over the next 5 weeks we will walk through this process.

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