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When awarding partial funding, what are their expectations? Most grantors do not do partial awards but some do and they don't include a change of scope or expectations for providing less funds than requested. Seems presumptive for grantee to send in a change of scope without them triggering it.

Most of the time, yes, they are pdfs. i'll try this and see if it works. thanks for your response!!

In case you still want a job description I forgot to send :)

@JoanneHala Good for you!! I'm currently a grant department of 1. I do some management, mostly post award organizational meeting to get programs starting their implementation on the right foot. Our fiscal department manages the fiscal end of the grant along with the PI on the grant. They are great on watching for any…

Thank you!!

Just wanted to comment on Julie's observation about Foundation grants looking more like Federal grants. She is so right. What I have noticed is that some foundation grants are getting more complex in their questions, want logic models, etc and more financial info than even some federal grants for a fraction of the funds! I…

Hi Kent, we use most of the ideas that you mentioned and personal phone calls seem to be the best way to express gratitude and learn more. Just this week one of our programs received an $888 donation from someone we hadn't heard of from out of state. The program manager thought it was a mistake or fraud; but we did get the…

Thank you for a great resource. We've been working all year with a consulting company and they have been awesome but its always good to have other options.

If there is a way that you can capture data on those changes then I would go with that. it might be as simple as capturing the capacity change. good luck!

I worked with an NICU for many years :) I was thinking about this after I wrote in and with equipment are you just replacing old equipment or affording a new way or better way to do things? You make take the approach of evaluating how the new equipment saves time, is more efficient or gets better outcomes. Even if its just…

@KellyBergquist - You could just include some process evaluation such as: 1) fully researched equipment that will best meet the described needs 2) purchase equipment by July xxx 3) install equipment by August xxx 4) Sample staff with short survey or interviews (if they are using equipment) to determine any training needs…

What a great resource! thank you @ericaholliam

I agree completely with your assessment above. In addition, I would advise new applicants to double check if there is a match requirement and be sure to have a plan for that. Check if they allow your full indirect rate. Even if you have a federally approved indirect rate they sometimes cap it as 10 or 12%. If you dont'…

If you can't get to a grants officer to talk, consider sending a short but compelling Case Statement to them to introduce your program. Susan Schaefer a presenter at the 2019 GPA conference had a great map, sorry I can't find her presentation. Essentially she said, call leave a nice message "would love to introduce myself…

I've had to work really hard at shorter sentences but now I'm working with other folks in my org to shorten, shorten, shorten. Think newspaper, people can't digest sentences that are 40 words long!

We've been doing some really focused training on race, equity and inclusion in our organization. Since I work with 20 programs i have the opportunity to remind others about how we describe groups of people. I've been practicing quite a lot. The one verbiage group that I find challenging is talking about 'older people'. In…