A guide to navigating Grants.gov

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• A guide to navigating Grants.gov

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Slideshow Overview

• Getting Started With Grants.gov
• Searching and Downloading Grant Applications
• Completing and Submitting Grant Applications
• After Your Grant is Submitted

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Getting Started With Grants.gov
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Why do we have to use Grants.gov?

• In 1998 Grants.gov was one of the 24 Presidents
  Management Agenda -- E-Government Initiatives
  (see Public Law 106-107)
• Intended to provide a simple, unified electronic
  storefront for interactions between grant
  applicants and the Federal agencies that manage
  grant funds
• Website located at http//grants.gov/

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PureEdge Viewer

• In order to download and apply for grants through
  Grants.gov, you must first install PureEdge
  Viewer on your computer
• PureEdge Viewer software is free and available on
  the Grants.gov website at http//www.grants.gov/D
  ownloadViewernew

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Searching and Downloading Grant Applications
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Searching for Grant Applications
To search for grant Opportunities, click Find
Grant Opportunities
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Searching for Grant Applications
4 ways to search for grant opportunities
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Searching for Grant Applications
Search for grants by entering keywords, a
funding opportunity number, or a CDFA
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Searching for Grant Applications
Search results will appear. Click Grant to
learn more about a grant opportunity.
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Searching for Grant Applications
Once you have read the grant opportunity you can
click Apply for Grant Electronically to
download the grant application.
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Downloading the Grant Application
If the grant is available for electronic
submission, a download hyperlink will appear.
Click the download link.
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Downloading the Grant Applications
Step 1 Click Download Application
Instructions Step 2 Click Download
Application Package
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Downloading the Grant Applications
Open up the file or save it to your hard drive.
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Completing and Submitting Grant Applications
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This information is automatically populated
Complete each mandatory document by highlighting
the document and clicking Open Form
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Fields highlighted in yellow are
mandatory Clicking on the Close Form button
will only temporarily save your work CAUTION To
save your work Click on the Save button
located on the Cover Page before exiting
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To submit your completed forms, highlight the
form title and click on the arrow to the right
under the move form to submission list. This
will move the form to the Mandatory Completed
Documents for Submission window.
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Completed forms will appear in the window on the
right
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Check your package for errors before submitting
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Submitting

• After checking for errors, save the file to your
  hard drive or storage device
• In order to submit the proposal, email the saved
  file to your Senior Grants Specialist
• Your Senior Grants Specialist will submit the
  proposal on behalf of the University
• Proposal must be submitted a minimum of business
  2 days before the due date

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Possible Barriers

• PureEdge Viewer for MAC Users and Non-Windows
  Users
• Citrix Server available for non-Windows users to
  complete the applicationsFree
• Virtual PC Version 7 129 to VPC with Windows XP
  Professional 249--per user
• File Types Depending on the form it may require
  the document to be converted to PDF
• Transferring large files from PI to SGS via email

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Known Barriers

• 48 hours prior to deadline date needed to ensure
  submission
• Validation of the Authorized Organizational
  Representative can take up to 24 hours
• Validation by the Agency to accept the
  application can take up to 24 hours

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After Your Grant is Submitted
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NIH Submissions

• In NIHs eRA Commons you can
• Track your application
• View reviewer comments
• Submit progress reports
• And more!
• To register for the Commons, please contact
  Andrew Gosnell at agosnell_at_research.usf.edu

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NIH eRA Commons
https//commons.era.nih.gov/commons/
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NSF Submissions

• NSF FastLane
• Update or Modify Submissions
• Withdraw Submissions
• Notifications and Requests
• Progress Reports
• Update Contact Information
• To register for FastLane, please contact Andrew
  Gosnell at agosnell_at_research.usf.edu

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Thank You!