Chapter 23
Ten e-Grant Tips
IN THIS CHAPTER
Tackling e-grants
Checking and rechecking the funder’s submission requirements
Today, e-grants are the norm for most funders. Unfortunately, grantwriters and others working in e-grant limitations tend to have the misconception that e-grants are a piece of cake. The reality is that e-grants aren’t any harder or easier to write than other formats. In an e-grant, you often can’t even see all of the application’s instructions or text box limitations until you complete a full login and start populating information in the text boxes.
In this chapter, I give you some tips to stay on top of the e-grants game and reduce common errors (and stress!) when the grant application submission time rolls around.
Log In and Set Up a Password Immediately for Online Submissions
The first step in writing an e-grant application is to log in so you can see what the requirements are. Read over all the questions and note how many characters you’re allotted for your answers. Then, as you work on your application offline, you can make sure that all your answers fit. (The last thing you want to do is try to write your grant application on the fly in the online system.)
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