Increase Grant Application Success | Info-Tech Research Group

Writing grants has not been prioritized by the organization.
Your organization is unable to start, finish, and/or continue priority projects or initiatives as it does not have sufficient funds.
Grants are applied to in an ad hoc manner by employees who do not have sufficient time and resources to dedicate to the process.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

There are three critical components to the grant application process:

Being strategic about the grant opportunities your organization chooses to pursue.
Dedicating sufficient time and resources to writing a competitive grant application.
Ensuring your organization will be able to adhere to the grant parameters if awarded the funding.

Impact and Result

By leveraging Info-Tech’s methodology, your organization will strategically select, write, and submit competitive grant applications, securing additional funding sources to support the organization and the communities you serve.
This research can enhance the grant writing capabilities of the organization and ensure that every grant chosen aligns with your organizational priorities.
This blueprint will drive consensus on which grant applications should be prioritized by the organization, ensuring resourcing, feasibility, and significance are considered.

Increase Grant Application Success Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should enhance your organization's grant application lifecycle and how you can increase the number of grants your organization is awarded. Review Info-Tech’s methodology and understand the four ways Info-Tech can support you in completing this project.

Increase Grant Application Success – Executive Brief

1. Identify Opportunities

Identify grant funding opportunities that align with your organization's priorities. Ensure the programs, services, projects, and initiatives that align with these priorities can be financially supported by grant funding.

At this step, plan to leverage Info-Tech's reference architectures to identify your organization's various capabilities and ways in which IT can support these capabilities. Identify grants that align with your organization's capabilities to increase your grant application success. Reference architectures are available for several industries.

2. Grant Prioritization

Prioritize applying for the grant opportunities that your organization identified. Be sure to consider the feasibility of implementing the project or initiative if your organization is awarded the grant.

3. Write the Grant Application

Write a competitive grant application that has been strategically developed and actively critiqued by various internal and external reviewers.

4. Submit the Grant Application

Submit an exemplary grant application that meets the guidelines and expectations of the granting agency prior to the due date.

Member Testimonials

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real-time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this blueprint and what our clients have to say.

9.0/10

Overall Impact

$13,712

Average $ Saved

10

Average Days Saved

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Impact

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Testimonial

Mascoutah Community Unit School District 19

Guided Implementation

9/10

$13,712

10

Best: Learning that I am on the right track and that my plan is justified. Worst: The time and work to get it all done is still a challenge. Ther... Read More

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Enhance your organization's grant writing process.

About Info-Tech

Info-Tech Research Group is the world’s fastest-growing information technology research and advisory company, proudly serving over 30,000 IT professionals.

We produce unbiased and highly relevant research to help CIOs and IT leaders make strategic, timely, and well-informed decisions. We partner closely with IT teams to provide everything they need, from actionable tools to analyst guidance, ensuring they deliver measurable results for their organizations.

What Is a Blueprint?

A blueprint is designed to be a roadmap, containing a methodology and the tools and templates you need to solve your IT problems.

Each blueprint can be accompanied by a Guided Implementation that provides you access to our world-class analysts to help you get through the project.

Table of Contents

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Guided Implementation 1: Identify Opportunities

Call 1: Discuss your organization's current grant writing capabilities and be introduced to the methodology.

Guided Implementation 2: Grant Prioritization

Call 1: Input information about grants and identify which grants will be prioritized.
Call 2: Discuss the prioritized list with your working group and pursue funding opportunities selected.

Guided Implementation 3: Write the Grant Application

Call 1: Sketch out your grant application.
Call 2: Conduct a SWOT analysis to critically assess the draft for improvement.
Call 3: Solicit feedback on the draft from internal and external reviewers.

Guided Implementation 4: Submit the Grant Application

Call 1: Submit the application. Follow up with the grant agency and/or program officer once you’ve been notified of the grant outcome. Ask for feedback.
Call 2: Have a retrospective meeting to discuss the feedback to improve future grant endeavors.

Authors

Monica Pagtalunan

Brittany Lutes

Larry Fretz

Contributors

Jack Greenshields, Sales Development, Foundant Technologies
Regina Begay, Court Administrator, Tohajiilee/Alamo District Court
Stephanie Henning, Senior Policy Analyst, Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary – Management U.S. Department of the Interior
Jean Rice, Senior Program (Broadband) Specialist, U.S. Department of Commerce's NTIA Federal Communications Commission
Wayne Smith, Hospitality Department Chair and Professor, College of Charleston
Six anonymous contributors

Search Code: 97078
Last Revised: May 26, 2021

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