Grants Management Intelligence: Closing Grant Rounds
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Starting Point: Five Best Practice Tips for Closing a Grants Round Using the combined wisdom of our AIGM team, we’ve collected five quick best practice tips for closing a grants round. 1. Include the closing date and time for your grants round in every communication you have with applicants: letters, emails, information packs and application guides – even application forms?
2. Send out a confirmation letter or email when you receive an application? And if you do, what’s in it? (See page 7 for more.)
3. Encourage applicants to get their applications in early, or well before deadline? It might be in vain given the data in our “Closing Times” feature (see page 2), but try to do it anyway!
4. Link clearly to your policy on late applications in all your communications – online, in print, via PDF? (For more on developing such a policy, see page 8.)
5. Place a timeline or countdown clock (or both) in a prominent spot on your website to constantly remind visitors of your program’s deadlines? (See page 6 for an example.) And one for the road – can prospective applicants (or, indeed, anyone) sign up to receive updates from you? If so, make sure you mention closing dates in these updates.
THEY SAID IT: “I am one of those people who thrive on deadlines, nothing brings on inspiration more readily than desperation.” – Harry Shearer, US actor, satirist
Grants Management Intelligence - Closing Grants Rounds Ed2,2014
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