Increase Grant Application Success
Enhance your organization's grant writing process.
- 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.
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.
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Get the help you need in this 4-phase advisory process. You'll receive 8 touchpoints with our researchers, all included in your membership.
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.
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
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