Sometimes the standard Grants.gov user roles – Expanded AOR, Standard AOR, and Workspace Manager – can be insufficiently rigid for applicant organizations.
Thus, an organization may want to create custom roles that can be assigned in place of the standard Grants.gov roles.
Continue reading Workspace Tips & Tricks: How to Create a Custom Role in Grants.gov
Even if you have applied for federal grants using Grants.gov Workspace, you might not be aware of all the features available to applicants.
Below are five things you might not know about Workspace, along with help articles that walk you through each action.
Continue reading 5 Things You Might Not Know About Workspace
If you are a subscriber to this blog, you likely know about Grants.gov’s online resources. These resources include training videos and the online user guide.
Sometimes, though, talking on the phone with a real, live human can be crucial – especially when a user is stumped by a specific step in the application process or just feels overwhelmed. To this end, Grants.gov has a Support Center that can be reached 24/7 (except on federal holidays) by phone (1-800-518-4726) or email.
Below are the five most common questions the support team has received about Grants.gov Workspace. Here we provide basic answers, tips, and links to specific videos and help articles that walk users through the answers. Continue reading Grants.gov Support Center’s Top Questions: Workspace Edition
The characters in our User Story blog series don’t have super-powers. But, the wide-ranging ways they use the Grants.gov system reflect time-saving and efficiency-building methods that real-world users can employ.
Here, we collect the user story narratives we have published so far in 2018.
Continue reading User Story Collection: How the Federal Grants Community Uses Grants.gov
The application deadline for Trish’s grant program has come and gone, so now she is ready to get those applications into the application review process. Trish would also like to add agency tracking numbers to give her applicants the opportunity to see the status of their application. (If you missed previous installments of Trish’s story, click here and here)
Continue reading Grantor User Story: Retrieving Submissions & Assigning Agency Tracking Numbers
Get your popcorn ready, everyone. The recently refreshed Learning Workspace Video Series provides step-by-step instructions for organization applicants using Grants.gov workspace.
Continue reading Video Playlist: Watch the Latest Tutorials in the Learning Workspace Video Series
You are at a crossroads. Your workspace has been created. You have logged in and clicked over to the Forms tab. And now you face a decision point: Do you use webforms or PDF forms (or both)?
This decision – admittedly – is a bit more complicated than choosing between, say, two types of soda pop or fruit juice.
When applicants are set to begin work on application forms, they have to decide whether to fill out any given form in a web browser or in Adobe Reader/Acrobat. This training video – recently updated – explains the how-to of each approach to forms.
In this post, we lay out the reasoning and upsides for each option. If, by the end of this post, you still don’t know what to do, we have some good news for you, too.
Continue reading Diet Soda or Regular? Orange Juice or Apple? Webforms or PDFs?
Adding collaborators to a workspace is surprisingly easy – even when the collaborator is not part of your applicant organization.
This new video outlines the different ways a Workspace Owner can add other users to a workspace.
Continue reading New Video: Adding Participants to Your Workspace
Applying for a federal grant can feel daunting – even for a seasoned veteran. The average federal grant application involves a multitude of decisions, from filling in form fields to communicating with collaborators.
The following graphic and its accompanying video break this complicated endeavor into four high-level phases.
Continue reading Infographic and Video of the Application Workflow for Organizations
Want us to address one of your organization’s scenarios? Post your scenario in the Grants.gov Discussion Forum for help from the grants community (login required).
This is a great question – and one that we have heard from other people who contribute to an organization’s application.
