The past few weeks have been busy for the federal grants community, trying to determine how federal stimulus funding will be dispersed through the various agencies. Now that we have a more complete picture, it is time, as the
Grant Writing Confidential blog states, for
"fast and furious grant writing". But fast doesn't mean sloppy or
incomplete:
For grant applicants, this means that agencies should apply
for as many grants as they can, taking great care to make sure that the
applications are technically correct. Since many applicants will
believe the stimulus hype and assume that everything will be funded,
the majority of applications are likely to be incomplete or incoherent.
Because federal reviewers will be told to get the money out as fast as
possible, the review is likely to be primarily checklist-oriented, with
the Program Officers throwing the garbage proposals over their
shoulders. Thus, this is not the time for amateur hour submissions.
Why risk your proposal being rejected for an administrative error or oversight? With Cayuse424,proposals are validated as you work, identifying errors or warnings in the application package. You can fix the issues easily and submit error-free proposals every time, so your proposal can be judged purely on content. Since the agencies are motivated to get this money out into the economy as soon as they can, this is not time
to fiddle with the submission process - let Cayuse handle that for you.
