# Presentation: 075449

## Grants.gov UpdateNOAASeptember 2005

*Grants.gov Update**NOAA**September 2005*

*Managed by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services**Fulfilling the President’s Management Agenda*

## The Grants.gov Program...

- Is a cross-agency initiative spanning 900 grant programs from the 26 grant-making agencies, and over $360 billion in annual awards
- Is a simple, unified “storefront” for all customers of Federal grants to electronically
- Find Grant Opportunities
- Apply for Grants
- Is one of the Federal cross-agency E-Government initiatives to improve access to services via the Internet
- Is managed by the Department of Health and Human Services, the largest provider of Federal grants

## Grants.gov Delivers Significant Value to the Grant Community

- Grants.gov provides a single source to find Federal government-wide competitive grant opportunities
- Helping the grant community learn about available opportunities in a standardized manner, saving time and money
- It provides a secure and reliable source to apply for Federal grants, simplifying the grant application process,reducing paperwork
- Avoiding the need to learn multiple agency or program-specific application processes/systems

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Objectives:
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Understand the benefits to applicants and recipients – the Grant Community.
Recognize that the grant is the “customer”.. 

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## Grants.gov Offers Many Advantages

- An organization only needs to register once to be able to submit all future applications via Grants.gov
- Applications are simple to submit and are more accurate due to built-in error checking and editing functionality
- Submitting applications via Grants.gov ensures prompt receipt by grantors – including NOAA – avoiding delays sometimes experienced through postal or courier services

## Grants.gov Provides Robust Functionality for the Grant Community

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- Find Grant Opportunities allows users to:
- Search for available grant opportunities
- Register to receive notification of grant opportunities
- Apply for Grants allows users to:
- Search for and download application packages
- Complete application packages offline
- Submit completed application packages
- Track the status of submitted applications

## Flexibility to search on numerous criteria
Active and archived documents
Funding opportunity number
Dates and time frames
CFDA number
Funding activity category 
Funding instrument type 
Agency

Email subscription service to receive email notification of all or select funding opportunities (e.g., CFDA #, agency, activity category)

- Active and archived documents
- Funding opportunity number
- Dates and time frames
- CFDA number
- Funding activity category
- Funding instrument type
- Agency
- Email subscription service to receive email notification of all or select funding opportunities (e.g., CFDA #, agency, activity category)

*“**Find Grant Opportunities” Features*

## Downloadable electronic forms
Download and review any application 
Complete applications offline, when and where convenient, without being connected to the Internet
Share and route applications through organizations for review or completion as an email attachment
Manage and save applications and components on the desktop

- Download and review any application
- Complete applications offline, when and where convenient, without being connected to the Internet
- Share and route applications through organizations for review or completion as an email attachment
- Manage and save applications and components on the desktop

*“**Apply for Grants” Features*

## Submit applications electronically
"Submit" button on application cover page activates after all required forms are completed and saved
Application summary provided to allow confirmation that the completed application will be submitted to the intended program
Application packages automatically upload to Grants.gov 
Application confirmation and tracking number provided online and via email

- "Submit" button on application cover page activates after all required forms are completed _and saved_
- Application summary provided to allow confirmation that the completed application will be submitted to the intended program
- Application packages automatically upload to Grants.gov
- Application confirmation and tracking number provided online and via email

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## Grants.gov Usage Highlights

- Over 15,000 Electronic Submissions Received –        OMB Performance Goal Met!!!!
- Registered Users Exceeds 16,500
- 1,400+ Agency Postings
- FIND
- 1.5M Hits per Week
- 1.1M Emails per Week

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13,000 Applications Received Since April 2005 

## Some useful links...

- Download the PureEdge viewer: _[http://www.grants.gov/PEViewer/ICSViewer602_grants.exe](http://www.grants.gov/PEViewer/ICSViewer602_grants.exe)_
- Register for notices of issuances of new grants in Find: _[http://www.grants.gov/ReceiveGrantOpportunityNotification](http://www.grants.gov/ReceiveGrantOpportunityNotification)_
- Access User Guide, FAQ and on-line Tutorial assistance: _[http://www.grants.gov/CustomerSupport#](http://www.grants.gov/CustomerSupport)_
- Worksheet located on the CCR website to aid you with the CCR registration: _[http://www.ccr.gov/CCRRegTemplate.pdf](http://www.ccr.gov/CCRRegTemplate.pdf)_
- Obtain a credential from the Credential Provider:_https://apply.grants.gov/OrcRegister_
- Register with Grants.gov register: _https://apply.grants.gov/GrantsgovRegister_
- CFDA: Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistancehttp://www.cfda.gov

## Some useful links... (cont.)

- Find current Grant opportunities in Apply: _http://www.grants.gov/assets/GrantsgovProgramsList.pdf_
- Application System-to-System Interface http://www.grants.gov/DoingBusinessApplicant
- Applicant Training Demonstration  - Complete Application Package _http://www.grants.gov/CompleteApplication#demo_
- Customer Online User Support http://www.grants.gov/CustomerSupport
- Succeed Newsletter Subscription _http://www.grants.gov/Subscription_
- Outreach Communication Resources _http://www.grants.gov/Communications_
- Customer Feedback Findings Reports _http://www.grants.gov/MarketResearch _

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