Waiting For Your Grant

After you’ve send in your application and did all you could do to promote and get it approved by contacting your local politicians and even media. All you could do is wait for a response.

What may happen is you can get a letter in a few weeks that advise you to change a few things in your application or even project plan. Take their advice as they do know what they are talking about, and it is actually in their best interest to give you the grant.

You might get a letter that informs you your grant application has been denied, along with the reasons why. Make sure to take note of those reasons so you do not repeat the same mistakes twice.

And if all goes will, you will get a letter or phone call that tells you your grant has been approved. If this happens, be sure to thank all those who helped you and provide them with a copy of the letter (you will need to keep good relations with these people for your next grant).

Once you have been awarded a grant, make sure you do everything that is required by the grant. Turn in the forms, follow up with department frequently, do a great job out there in the field. Make yourself someone who will be much more apt to get another grant next time.

Once you get the hang of the whole grant application process, you will be able to quickly plug in new grant ideas into your existing system and get approved for many more grants. And if you can prove to the government that what you are using the grants for is having a positive effect on your community, or state you will always be able to find money that you can put to god use.