Well, good morning everybody. This is really exciting. Welcome to our inaugural training program. Today we're gonna be just kinda going over the basics of grants for you. And we're really excited to work with your communities. We find it very rewarding. We look forward to continuing this work in the future. First, we want to just take a minute and introduce you to our team. It's Troy myths is not here with us today. He's an Associate Director at IPA. He's always hear spirit. My name is Laurie said No, I'm all see scientists at the Institute and I work with the Gap team and I'm going to turn that over. Good morning, everyone. Thanks for joining us. My name is Matt Harris, I with the UD Gap team, the grant assistance program. And I hope many of you have heard of us, have hopefully worked with us. And if you haven't worked with us, we hope to work with you. So with that, I'm going to throw it off to my coworker, chase Martin's. Hi everyone. Welcome to our first official grants training. Thanks for joining. My name is Chase Barnes. I worked with Matt and Lori on the grant assistance program here at UMD. And I look forward to hopefully teaching you something today and seeing you at our future trainings as well. And just a few housekeeping items. If you do have questions, feel free to drop them in the chat. We're going to go over them. We anticipate we'll have a lot of time at the end of the session to do that. Please remember. Sorry, Lauren, can you unmute yourself? There we go. Okay. There's somebody outcomes we're gonna be looking for today as we move through the training. Just to be clear, the GOP program isn't going anywhere at least for the next four years. Our hope though is that by just hoping that a moved through the basics of this training will be able to assist your communities more effectively. So we're gonna go through information to determine how whether a grant is good, good stead for your project or for your organization. And ultimately understand that the grants available, especially, especially those through the bi-partisan infrastructure law and the impersonal reduction act. Not just available for you to do discrete projects and planning studies, but they can really be transformative in your community and we want you to be thinking along those lines. This is our training schedule. Obviously today's first session. We've got five modules set-up for you where we will go through different aspects of the grant development process. And you could see all the topics we'll be covering there. Today. We'll talk about what a graph is, how to differentiate that from other types of financial assistance. The life cycle of a grab bar graphs vary tremendously. This is the pathway they take is really consistently the same. We'll look at researching some federal opportunities and some critical steps like registering on sam.gov and grants.gov. We'll be looking at eligibility and then we'll take a look at the notice of funding opportunities. This is a document with the columns of information typically, and it's a lot to go through. And again, reaching some critical pieces for you to take a look at timelines and deadlines. Any kind of cautionary that's required. We'll talk about what's needed in the post approval process and then give you some resources that you want to further along with a little bit of homework that has hopefully some very practical application for you. What does the ground? It's a way to fund your projects. It's a way to fund your ideas. They have been instrumental in recovery initiatives. Everything from disaster recovery to be any economic recovery that we all are struggling with because of the pandemic. And although we've been looking primarily at federal grants, there are other sources of grants as well. Stay local and non-profits. So we don't want to lose sight of that. The lifecycle of a grant follows a very typical pathway. There's a pretty award things, the award phase implementation and then close out all these concepts. Find more information on them at grants.gov, which should be looking at in a little bit. Now, first, the free award phase, this is where you're going to identify your opportunities. Pull together the data or the information that you need, and then submit the application. Then you'll receive notice of the award, whether you received it hopefully, or even if you didn't, there's good information to learn there as well. If you do receive an award there maybe documented patient that you need to complete and submit an order to get the process moving. Implementation. You're going to be requesting payment and receiving it from the federal government or whoever you apply for grant, or you'll be implementing your project, whether it's a study or some type of construction. And you'll be submitting reports and milestone updates along the way. And then finally at closeout, you're going to submit a final audit. And probably just some financial reconciliation and identity are a type of accounting that is required. Now at this point I'm going to turn it over to chase, who is going to walk you through researching some of these federal grant opportunities. All right. Let me just set mine up real quick. Does everybody see my PowerPoint? Right? So there we go. Alright, so Researching Grants can sometimes seem like a bit of a daunting task. But once you understand like what grant research is, why it's important and when you should do it, it will be a little less confusing and you'll be able to navigate the process a little easier. Which again, we'll just make communicating with us and other stakeholders a little easier. So what is grant research? There's no secret meaning the grant research, it's searching for funding opportunities and understanding things like who's eligible when applications are due, and what should be included in those applications. And we'll get into that in more detail later when we talk more about notice of funding opportunities. So why should you conduct grant research? Well, first and foremost, it's important to help fund projects in your project pipeline. But it's great research can also be a useful tool to better understand the priorities of funding agencies. So as you're developing projects, you can do so in a manner that will make them more competitive for different funding opportunities. And then finally, when should you do grant research and answer to that is early and often so that you can understand what funding is available and when applications are due. And then the next big question is, how do you do grants research? There's really no wrong answer and you can always just go to Google and type in your project and grant funding opportunities. And I'm sure that would spit back some results, but that can often lead to a time-consuming process where you're clicking on lots of links and go into pages. And then it finds out this page is ten years old. Why is it still an Internet? So I'm going to show you a few different resources that can be helpful in your grant researching. So I'm going to share my screen again. Stop share. And I'm going to show you first grants.gov. Grants.gov is the Federal Clearinghouse for for federal grants. So this lists almost every grant opportunity that comes from a federal agency. So there's a first before I show you how to search, I'll just kinda make you aware of grants.gov, which mat we'll talk about a little bit later, and how to register here. So grants.gov has a ton of awesome resources in terms of like learning more about grants. So grants one-on-one, understanding eligibility requirements. What federal agencies provide, grant funding opportunities, different kind of grant programs. Once you get an award, reporting and things like that, different policies, this terminology list is a really helpful has been a really helpful tool for me personally to understand some of those strange words that the federal government thinks are useful to people. Another useful thing about grants.gov for when you're developing grants applications is that they have templates for all of the different standard federal documents you need to submit. You know, specifically that for two for budget forms, different reporting forms and things like that. Alright, so how to search grants? Well, first, you can just come up here and do a quick search. So if you happen to know the title of the grant, you can search there. You can also search by subject matter too. I usually like to go here to this search grants tab, which will then bring you to what looks like a big database. I'm sure that you've seen similar database. As the federal government does it very black and white, not necessarily super friendly, but the thing is that when you're looking at a grant in the search results box and things, I want to draw your attention to that I think are important. Or the date that it was posted. And then of course, the closing date, that's the date that you really need to be mindful of because that's sort of your window. To get your applications submitted by. Then if you click on the blue link, it will bring you to a more it'll provide more information, brief description some of the eligibility requirements. How much total funding is there? Sort of the project project floor and projects ceiling size. So you can get an idea like, does my project fit this specific grant opportunity? And then there's typically a link to the actual grant ret website and then contact information for the project officer in charge of this grant program. Alright, so let's go back. And again, the one thing I will mention, and you can probably see like this database right now has almost 3,000 listed grant opportunities. Those are opportunities that are currently open, that's posted means they're currently open or forecasted, which means the federal government has mentioned or has said, we're going to open up this grant opportunity soon. So you can kind of like be on the lookout for that. So again, kind of daunting, but thankfully, there's some great search tools here on the side. So for all of our local government partners, I would suggest just before you look at any grants on grants dot.gov, select select the eligibility criteria for city or township governments because those will be the ones that are most applicable to you. So click that and then that brings us down to about 1,200 grants. Still a lot to work through. So there's some additional functions you can use to kind of narrow down your search. So I personally like to go by category. I think that's an easier way to sort of, you know, wean out things like education. I know not a lot of our local governments are directly working in education. So these 300 grants probably aren't gonna be super applicable. Some might be, but for the most part you can kind of check them off. If you did happen to know like, Hey, I live in a rural area, what does USDA offers? So you can then search by just the funding agency, whatever really is you're comfortable with and what you find to be most effective. I would suggest just doing that. Then last, this is not always the best way to search by keywords because for some reason if you type in like stormwater, it doesn't show all of the grants that you might be able to use for stormwater. So but that's certainly a good, a good place to start. So let's alright, so we've selected city and Township governments. Let's go and see like how about like economic development. We see that in there. Hi Family yesterday. But let's just, let's just search anyway, economic development. So you see all the different search results that come back. Again, make sure it's for city and county governments. I was like USDA programs. I think they're very friendly. And then right there, Here's one for an agriculture innovation center grant program. So maybe not totally up the lines of what sort of projects folks have in. But again, you can see how quickly you can narrow it down. So enough about grants.gov, because I think that we have a better a better resource. Or another way that you can do is if I like USDA, but you can also go directly to the funding agencies page, the federal funding agencies page, for a little more information and fewer results. So let's use the, this is the US Economic Development Administration page. So this is just sort of their homepage. I just googled ada.gov. But you can see here they've got funding. So then you can go to find funding. And then you can see what different opportunities the Economic Development Association offers. And every funding agency has a similar page like USDA or the Department of Education, health, and Human Services extension. Now with that said, I know that this seems like a lot because it certainly is, it's a firehose to the face of potential information. And it's not always up-to-date. And sometimes it can be confusing and then all of a sudden you're out of your allotted time and you have to go to your next meeting. So what we at the GAP program have done is we have developed our own funding opportunities portal, which you can find on our Institute of Public Administration Gap website. You can find that just by Googling the grant assistance program and it will come up UDL, IPA grants. You can click on our funding opportunities portal. You can now see that we've kind of cut through a lot of that noise and have identified grants that are useful in particular to the state of Delaware. So there's about, I think it was about 85 grants in here right now, I look at these every day. We list the title of the grant, sort of the category when the general application period is. So we're coming up in March, e.g. I. Know for a fact that this AARP grant is closing soon, but maybe you missed the boat. It'll come back around next year. So we know in January we can start thinking about an application for this AARP community challenge grants. We have the project size there, whether or not there's a match a grant match or loan interests requirement, and then a brief district a brief description of the purpose of that grant and what it does. Then when you click learn more, it will bring you in a new tab to the funding opportunity, to the funding agencies page. So we also provide different functions, although right now with 85, you can kind of look through these without sorting, but you can sort by categories. So Flood and stormwater management, e.g. that should say energy. Sorry about that. I'll fix that. I'll fix that. We just updated this to provide more functions and we add it in about 30 new grant opportunities that go beyond local government. So maybe you have a non-profit that's working in your town or maybe some of you work for non-profits. You can, you can sort certainly by the different non-profit grants like that. It'll sort through a look. We've got, you know, about 11 results so you can pare it down pretty well. And then you can also search by whether or not I think my Internet is just lagging a bit. There we go. You can search by whether or not they're, a match is required or not. So hopefully we find that you'll find this to be a more useful tool regarding searching for a grant opportunities. But like I said, grants.gov is a great opportunity to look for grants. You can go to individual agency websites and look for grants. And then of course you can use or IPA, Our grant portal here. So I'm going to stop sharing for a second. Minimize that. Would that, that's the end of my piece and I'm going to turn it back over to Matt. Alright, Thanks Chase. I appreciate it. So actually, I'm going to take us back a little bit because before you even start, I mean, you can look for grant opportunities, but I'm going to talk about what is a relatively dry process, but very important, and it's just being registered and make sure that all of your information and your registered with the federal government to actually pursue grant opportunities. So I'm gonna share my screen. And then let me get to my slide here. Okay. Current slapping. Okay. Can everyone see that? Yes. My team can see that. Okay. So like I said, when I'm talking to you about is sam.gov and what sam.gov is, it's called the System for Award Management. And it's how you are registered. Tell your local municipality how your non-profit is registered to do business with the federal government. So this is your first step. And I believe that Chase use the phrase early and often. I would just use the early piece for sam.gov. Like when you're thinking about when you want to be digging into this. This is when you want to be doing this as soon as possible. Very short story. But sometimes we've worked with people and they've had stories. We haven't encountered this yet, where people will put in all the effort, they will identify the grant, they will do the work that she's just walked you through. They will write it. The whole process that Lori walked you through the four-step process. And then they realize at the last minute that they're actually not registered to submit through grants.gov, which is a terrible place to be. We don't want any of you to land there. So we actually hold a drop-in session in December. For those of you who are on this, I imagine that you also get our drop-in session emails. Every month we hold different sessions and in December, it was be prepared in the new year. Talking about sam.gov. Sam talked of is like I said, it's just the way that you registered your entity with the federal government. It must be renewed annually. And you just have to know some basic information in order to register with sam.gov. Is your entities. Full legal name. You're in your organizations employee identification number or tax ID number. Then you'll also be assigned what you're really doing when you registered through sam.gov. Because what you really need is a unique entity ID number. And I'm gonna be talking about that next. It's kind of a three-step process. So you kinda have to go to sam.gov, then you get your unique entity ID, and then you have to register with Grant sucked up, and then you can apply for grants. I know it sounds like a lot in the process takes about a month to do. So. We just like to be talking about that everyone about it. He said I didn't get the most exciting portion of the presentation today, but it is necessary. So your unique entity identification, it's a twelv character alphanumeric ID assigned to an entity by sam.gov. And that's basically why you go through sam.gov. It's how you get all registered as part of this transition. So some of you who have been working in the federal grant space would probably remember your duns number. Duns is no longer a recognized number through the federal government. They transition that to your unique entity ID, your entity registration, searching and data entry and sam.gov now recruit now require the use of the unique entity ID. So it's just something to be aware of that they have discontinued the duns number and transitioned into the eye. So then when you get your unique entity ID, which takes about ten days through sam.gov. You can then register with grants.gov. I'm gonna be showing you all of these websites and also one other website that I think is important, which is basically just to check your entity's current status in it and find out if you are registered in sam.gov. If you are, then you kind of hit the ground running in a different place. If you're not, then you hit the ground running at the beginning. It says it can take about seven to ten business days to fully complete the registration process required from us funding opportunities. Most importantly, it's free. It doesn't cost any money to get registered or anything like that. It does cost or time. And I want to show you some of the information that we're going to go through. Just so you're familiar with seeing all of the information that you would have to provide. And also another important thing that I'm going to share with all of you is that the Gap team is really here to help. And we didn't talk about this as much in the beginning, but we're really here to assist in all portions of your grant application process. So that can start at sam.gov and getting you registered. That can help you identify an opportunity. It can be writing, it can be proofreading, it can be anything along the way. So while this may seem like an overwhelming process and we're delivering you a lot of information. What we want you to know, probably the most important takeaway from this webinar is that we're still here. And you can reach out to us at IPA dot grants and will assist you however we can wherever you are. So same.gov, I'm going to stop sharing for just 1 s because I wanted to just run you over to that screen. Yeah, I'm gonna stop sharing and then I'm going to share with you just a couple. I have it up. I'm sorry. Hello. 1 s everyone. I thought I have it. Okay. I see. I timed out. Here we go. I think I can share. Okay. Can everyone see this screen here? I'm Chase or you can get some confirmation. Yes. Alright, great. Sam.gov. It's a four-step process. You know, like they have some information here. It says about registration and set up a sam.gov. We count, prepare your data and get started. So it talks a little bit. This is the screen that you would go to. You're going to want to go, I'm going to show you how to check to see if you're actually registered, if you are actually, let's do that right now because that would really be the first place that you would want to go. You'd want to go to sam.gov. And then I'm just gonna jump over to see search here. So if you go to search, you do have to create a small account in here. And I would have shown you how to do that, but I already created my account. But again, we can help you through that process as well. But I just wanted to show you how you do actually look for your entity. So one that I know is registered on because we have worked with them before. After at sam.gov and you got to search and go down here and you do all words and say, I put in City of Louis. Okay. So you go here to city of Louis. It has an active registration. You can see their address here or cage code, their unique entity ID. Also, additionally in Louis, they have a Board of Public Works. They as well have an active registration. So if you go here and let me see if we have what would be a town. Let's go. Milton, Delaware. Milton Historical Society. And this is picking up things across the country. So you do have to sort through these. Oh, I think I might still have. No I don't see anything. Well, we can go through here, but it's just an example of kind of like the first place that you want to start. Because if you are registered in sam.gov, then you can start from here. You don't have to already just do a whole new registration. I wanted to share everybody. Share with everyone that you can check your entity registration. And also keep in mind it has to be done annually as well. So they don't necessarily make it super easy, but it is important. The other thing that I wanted to share with all of you here is your entity checklist. So this is the information that you're going to need when you go to register at sam.gov. And I'm going to jump all the way up to the top here real quick. So they have all the words you can register as an olive words, entity or a financial assistance, or it's only, imagine the majority of you are going to be financial assistance awards. Only. The, all the words allows you to bid on contracts, which I don t think a lot of our municipalities do. You quite frankly, the financial assistance awards only is a bit simpler of a process. So if I were you, I would go with this one. This one will allow you to apply for grants and be positioned too, pursue those opportunities. So you can see here, if you're in all the words registration, like I just talked about, which I don t think many of you will be. I think you're going to fall over here, which is the financial assistance awards only. You just need to provide your unique entity ID. Some core data represent your Representations and Certifications and your points of contact in this document here. When you go down to pay 12, it really walks you through very specifically what you need to provide, your legal business name, your physical address, or date of incorporation, state of incorporation. There are some other things, business information, financial information. These are all things that are, I think in the local government space, you would be able to answer relatively easily. So you just go through and you have to answer these, these, uh, this is gonna be the information that you're going to need when you register on sam.gov. So it's just a heads up so that you don't start the registration process and not know what you need. Then we're going to jump back to our PowerPoint, I believe. Share. Yeah. So we talked about the unique ends DID That's what sam.gov is all about. That's really the purpose. That's what you're gonna get. Ten lack thereof registration. So then you're going to have your unique and CID and then you're also going to need an IV is point of contact for grants.gov. This is typically someone in your finance office that would list, is this person. Another important component of all of this is that I just wanted to say, it's really important that when you start registering and creating passwords and using emails, that you just keep track of who. All of that is. Keep a list, just keep it in a safe space because it's really hard to go back. It's saying, Oh, I forgot that email, I don't have that password. You want to just be prepared and have all of your information. So then once you have registered with sam.gov, you have your unique entity ID are good to go. You can then register with grants.gov. So you're going to want to create your grants OC double count with the same email address is used with your sam.gov and your same eBay's point of contact. And I'm going to also show you guys really quick when we go to grants.gov here, I already have this screen pulled up. I just want to show you how you actually go about registering. So when you go to grants.gov, this is the screen that Chase had shown you earlier. You can do a lot from here. You can look for grants. But one of the most important things, at least for the portion that I'm speaking with you about right now, is it you want to register with grants.gov? If you're not registered, the rest of it is not. There's no point you have to be registered. So it talks about sam.gov right here, which is what we've already done. By the time you get to this point, you would have already accomplished this. And you're going to want to go to grants.gov. And it really is, I have to say the sam.gov is the more complicated piece. Grants.gov is very simple. They're just going to pull from your unique ends. Did all of the information that you already provided, so you don't need to provide it again. Um, so you're gonna go up here and it's as simple as just going to register. And then this is where you go. Applicant registration page. This is you'll go here. There's a really simple video here that I won't show you all right now, but it's very simple about how to register with grants.gov. All you need is really your email and that point of contact and your unique entity ID. We saved the entire process takes about, I would say about a month just to make sure that you are totally solid. I would give yourself that time. So like we said, it's gonna be one of your homework assignments we're hoping that we can help you with. And it's not just your homework, it's our homework as well. Because if you reach out to us, you know, certainly we want to help you get through the process. We can zoom with you. We can help, we can walk you through every single step. You're not alone in what feels like a complicated space here. So with that, I'm going to going to stop my share. And then I believe from here we're back to chase me, just pull up my point here and I'm going to talk to you guys about eligibility. And this is kind of a pass the buck sort of question, but it's very straightforward, but it's not. So who is eligible for federal grants? It really just depends on the specific funding opportunity. And again, we'll, we'll point you to one of our favorite places which is grants.gov and let me just back up. Share.gov. Okay, here we go. So as you can see, there's a variety of different entities that are eligible for federal grants. And again, sort of depends on the grant and the granting agency. So government organizations, state, county, city, special district governments. So that might include like a tack stitch or a development area. Different education institutions, whether they're independent public or private, public housing organizations, non-profits, and then some for-profits, which is mostly small businesses or individuals. So I will say just as a general rule of thumb, education type grants are typically four schools, so the primary applicant for that, although a town might be a partner, the primary applicant would need to be the school. And then another rule of thumb, although this doesn't always hold true, is for housing. Housing is a major local government problem that many people are interested in. However, the way the Federal Health and Human Services designs these grants, a lot of these public housing, or just housing and development grants specifically are usually for non-profits or housing authorities. So again, housing and housing stock is definitely local government problem. But because of the eligibility requirements, the town would probably need to be a partner on that application with a non-profit or a housing authority, then non-profits, again. Similarly, they cover a lot of different things in our great partners. And it might be better that a non-profit be the primary applicant and the town via partner and just sort of depends on the project. But again, like that's what we can help. These are the questions we can help answer for you at Gap. E.g. if you came across a if you came across a grant opportunity that you were interested in, you can send a set of grant opportunity. We could do a little more background information and then we can determine, yeah, your town is eligible, eligible for this or maybe your towns not eligible for it. Or yes, maybe your towns eligible, but you don't need a lot of the type of evaluation criteria. So at face value, it might be available to a local government, but some of the federal grants that you'll find in grants.gov will be like for a specific geographic area like this, the Pacific Northwest, in which case? Yes, your town. So you're eligible from that aspect. Geographically, you're not eligible. So eligibility is straightforward in the sense of who can apply. But then there are sometimes you'd have to read between the lines a little bit to determine like, yes, I'm in town and I qualify. But do I qualify for that geographic geographic scope or does the project qualify? And again, we can we can help answer those questions. So I still sharing my screen. Let me go back to the PowerPoint. Yes, you are still sharing chiefs. Okay, great. I see my slide, right? So we kind of mentioned this earlier and this is a very important piece of the grant application process. When it comes time to start, you know, you've figured out, yeah, I'm eligible. We've got a project and we're going to go for this grant. The next step is to look at the notice of funding opportunity, which is essentially a packet. And this is sort of your, your guidepost or your rule book for how you should write your grant. What should be included in there? It will go over eligibility, it'll go over timelines. It'll go over this very nuanced, but it's sometimes overlooked. Know foes will say what sort of format and page requirements are required for your grant. So this section can't be more than five pages. You must use this font and the size and have this size margins. So getting those little technical aspects can be the difference between your application being accepted or not. Upfront. Again, those required forms which I mentioned on grants.gov, they'll the no-fault which notice of funding opportunity is also we call a no fault because it's a little easier for us. We'll go over what required forms you need, what sort of budget information they want. The cost-share requirements. So are you on the hook for 20% local cost-share or 10%? Is it 50? 50 is it one-to-one? So that will be outlined in the novo. It will also have agency point of contact information. So should you have any questions about your application? That's a good place to start. You should do that early in the process. And again, we can help you navigate that as well. Sometimes we might be able to answer those questions for you and then if not, we can always on your behalf, reach out to the federal agency to sort of answer those, get those questions answered. Then it talks about some things, so sorry. Go ahead. Oh, no, I just wanted to say we can't see this slide. We're still looking at the website. Oh, I'm sorry. Okay. I just wanted you to know you were really on a roll there and I didn't want to interrupt, but I appreciate that. Okay. Now, you can see that. Yes, Now we're getting graded. So again, those are the things that are included in an elbow. No. False, I will say typically range 30-60 pages and a more technically focused grant might even get up into the AD page range. So a lot that takes a lot to sit down and read 80 pages. But if you know where to look and how to read a note vo you can cut down at least on the front end and sort of to understand eligibility requirements and things like that. So to that end and to give you a break from us talking, we worked with a consultant to have a video made, which we hope will be helpful to you guys. And I'm just going to pull that up. It's about a 20-minute video and it's gonna go over in more detail all of the things that are outlined in a no-fault and kind of how to read it. This was made by sag x associates on so you'll hear Kirsten McGregor on the video. So let me share my screen. Does everyone see the YouTube page? Yes. Hi, This is correct. The McGregor. Can you guys hear it? The YouTube video? Matt? Yes, we can hear it. Tastes. Can you make can you make it full screen? Affinity, which we refer to as a funding opportunity through RPA, the American Economic Development Administration. Permanent, permanent. When using this as an example, today, is representative of a lot of about 50 pages long and dense. And again, you'll be referring back to those. For each course that we have in the series, is going to give a high-level overview so we don't hello there. But it is important that once you decide to go for on an Apple affinity with that, get into the weeds a little bit. But when you first decide that you're looking into the opportunity, you're going to want to look at this executive summary and beginning. It talks about what the funding sources. It has the funding opportunity number, which is specific. For this note that each number has a number and it has the deadlines right here on the executive summary that this one was through two phases. And it has the eligibility summarized here. It has a summary description of the table of contents. In it of itself is two pages where they break it down in the program description photo awarded through nation eligibility information. Which again, we're going to go through this very high level. The application submission information, the concept proposal, application review information, federal award administration information. Here are the contacts that we'll come back. We'll refer to them as economic development representatives. And then there's a whole bunch of other information. Once you decide you really do need to read the requirements. Because if you are successful in being awarded a grant, you have to comply with those. Here are the instructions of the ends or the last few pages about how grants.gov, which we talked about earlier. Please note here that they even mentioned that there's such an unregistered earnings in the early, not want to wait till the last minute. They even put that in the novo. So again, you'll want to go through when you're reading through and go like this. Basically as if you're back in school and writing a report, taking notes of what the key highlights are and making sure that you meet them and having a checklist for all the requirements that your narrative and your application materials include everything that's described in the oboe. So here they have some terms that define, so coalition partner, regional growth processor, they haven't actually defined. So you want to make sure that you're keeping those concepts, their stocks, that's everything. Making sure that your idea and your proposal or align to how they are defining terminology and concepts because certain things vary from agency to agency. This then breaks down the two phases, like I said, a phase one and phase two. It then gets into why? What what they're looking for. So they have check, check, check, check, check. Just go through here about what if your project meets those? I'm going to say Check, check, check a lot because That's the other thing about them, is rarely need to basically create a checklist. Here they have examples of projects that would be eligible for funding. So you don't have to have, these are just examples, but it does mean you an idea of what's included in each of these proposals. So it gives you an idea of whether your project concept is obviously completely different, but knowing that you're on the same page about what you've included. And so they have the key elements of a successful regional cluster here. Again, these are concepts that weren't understand how they're defining regional asset, she's relationship sustainability and equity, how they are defined in here, because in the proposal until later that you will have to demonstrate how your project meets these four. Here they talk about how you shouldn't have a coalition set up and what those projects clusters should look like. Again, your project. Then. Just a line with this. Because you don't want to waste your time and money writing a proposal together. It's not even aligned with what the funding opportunity is. The funding opportunity enforcing kind of have to make a picture projects of needs. What the intent of the nouveau is, the eligibility of the activities themselves. That means that your actual project, what this project is is here, if it also talks about what is good. Well, I guess up later Bennett was not eligible, will be in here too. Again. You want to go through that. See eligibility. They talk about here resistance to cold community. So sometimes they'll have a satisfied for certain projects. At least $100 million of this particular funding opportunities set aside for full community. So your projects that you want to make sure that he's bowed out here in the project execution. Also take note of the footnotes here for definitions as well. Sometimes they'll bring you back to the agency website. I forgot to mention the logos. You can find them on different federal agencies websites for her grandson. And they'll have all that for each nodes have been asking about actually have the same required application materials and stuff. So this, like I said, was paid to daisies and those planes. Again, check, check, check that you are meeting. What is required for your concept proposal. Make sure that you don't miss anything that they're asking. Talk about the requirements for phase two. I mentioned this earlier. They are eligible projects. Sometimes they're restricted by the stacking of the agency themselves and sometimes it's based on the funding opportunity. This is something to think about too. It's a sad line. It says it's comprehensive economic development strategy, which is funded by the agency that's running this no-go strategic regional economic development plan. A lot of these federal funding opportunities will want to ensure that you're aligning with the plants that they find for that region or EDA has investment priorities that are important to make sure that you're getting real time checks. In the previous administration had different investment is very important to keep up to date with Bob. So how I think that, again, that definition of how they define resilience is going to be a little different based on the scope agency, you want to make sure that how year divine design didn't align with their definition of business proposal unevenly get thoughts their website. So this talks about exactly what their founding days by $3 billion they received for RPA. This novo itself is 1 billion for regional growth faster. So they talk about the act of writing. It's all. They talk about phase one and phase two then exit to two phases. You need to understand a little bit more about the period of performance. We wanted to make sure this is phase one, phase two. Phase one needs to make sure that technical assistance, not construction, is completed in 12 to 24 months. And if you were doing a base to that, you would be able to complete the contract well before September 30th, 2027, again, because that's how it was written to them or they go into the applicants, this is important to you. They have a summary and a little bit in the beginning of that executive summary, Bye. These are typical eligibility for discounts and z. However, sometimes they vary based on the funding opportunity themselves, e.g. or business communities. So only certain island territory, not all of them and in tribal nation for eligible for that particular note about this showed the special needs that allows for this to be funded. Again, this is something that happens with a lot of coming up with good things about the nature of why why they were able to use this funding and making sure that your, again, your project aligns with intent. We're going to have a whole class on budget and are sharing the same. We talked about in a little bit in this class, but this particular funding with 100% for phase one, it didn't have to demonstrate a local sheriff, but for base two pieces, I'm going to show a local share which you have available. 20% is herpes zoster supplementals. But most productive general provisions regarding my partner in that firm, that class, the heightening document, that is how it doesn't necessarily have to be cash. This show what is required in your application itself for phase one and phase two. Again, make sure that your check, check, check. What's required is an application package. You'll have the content in forms or phase one is suddenly exactly what you need. Maximum five pages, but I'll point font 1, " margins. It has specific guidance and pull it out. So in addition to all the things that you've read before, the previous 16 pages or theorem shows exactly what the hit in that narrative. And it goes, remember we talked about this before as an appendix of the four key elements and shows. To five sentences, brief description that really spoke out because you could be out of compliance just based on not following the directions. Again, these are all the documentation and buttresses supports that you'll need. Support from partners, stakeholders, sometimes private sector of their beneficiary has a budget narrative. These are all the forms that will be required. Again, we'll be going through all these, but it shows that the work file format, which she's typically, again, there's alternatives. Again, this is the base to application on the book. How much work is required for that narrative? That this one was ten pages, 12 point font, one-inch margins. And then how's the synopsis that's about two pages and so, but you need, so again, you have the capacity to either pull together an application that needs cookies in front of me. Again, I pick one that wasn't a super easy like small Planning brands or technical assistance grant. This was two days, one just to show how they some of the signs once and infrastructure wise spending on what agency. But this shows what forms are part of a floor obligation down looking at those footnotes are important. Non-profits. Again, it varies. But in this particular case, your non-profit, you need to demonstrate that the artifice of incorporation and bylaws, typically, many times before you're working together. Again until the project merit and single-sided minimum PowerPoint bonds, so on and so forth with, with how full your narrative together for your proposed project. And this varies from project to productivity that's spelled out in one direction versus non construction. There's an income Bader. Ginsburg, which is in our OF involved in construction, you start getting into fundamental historic preservation requirement and indirect cost rate. Again, we'll be getting into this in more detail, but I wanted you to see now they look, they even have the identifier that we talked about earlier. And as fast as he says, World War minute warning here that you've registered in SAM. Hard to get that entity a member. They have the two dotted lines here for the two different phases. Um, they even want to hear that process validation 24 to 48 h. So there can be errors, but they're rejected by grants.gov and may not be brought into the agency. So you want to make sure that you are not waiting until that last few days before the deadline to submit. The other thing that we have mentioned that knocked out those under maintenance workshops down and it has it has nothing to do with it. You can see here it's a separate company, although you can have an error in your own account that needs to be updated, I can say that you want to make sure that your company. So some of these here are things that you need to make sure that are just general apartments so they won't cover your word parts and these things. Once you decided that you are going to submit, you're wondering whether this new tab and here's the evaluation criteria so that even spell out if anyone wants to check again that your proposal is bleeding unexplained in this different or needs some thoughts but they're evaluating or so they had to pick one of the things to start getting into the process of selection. Why did you decide to go for it? Don't wanna have a better understanding of how they actually work. But the process has been so good. But for your purposes, this is just to show you what's included in the notes and the foundation for this course. The funding. So it goes into referring to differ e.g. Government Performance and Results Act is going to happen. We are successful in your work. You will have to be reported on it for awhile. The outcomes of the project. Here they have the actual contact information. Some The federal agency or three, this one is divided by regional offices of the Atlanta regional office for the state to contact. Their contact information is here. No op-eds. Chicago Regional Office, Denver regional office filled out the regional office, so that's ours for Delaware. But what's the point of contact isn't necessarily destiny. The Environmental Officer, particularly important for construction projects. And here's all this stuff that you'll want to know when you actually decide to submit these things. All the rules and regulations that are required for program. Now here they go down and parking for advocates and for submitting the generic product that you can have links here. Going through that ourselves here today. To point out where they said register early and submit early. Start that user ID and password that you take three to five business days or hours per week. So make sure you have the debit account set up and registered with Sam. I think it's here, but the level of separate document here, they have it registration now, it's kinda go through in this spot. I've done that. They're no longer in the dentin browsers and you see that? That's why they're doing that identification. That's the identification number. So I wanted to print that out and verify that your submission was successful. It explains application pockets within 72 h that female applicants may contact the agency. The background section, you can track your application advanced accounting error messages. There's a link there, but I system. If I got again, this is all in the know. But we do need the basics today. I wanted you to have an understanding of what's included in about an opportunity. A lot of it will not be relevant to. Your first book is more relevant to if you actually decide to pull together an application, but to determine whether your proposal is competitive and aligned with this opportunity, you should kind of skim through this first, actually preparing your grant application and the application materials and forms. And there it is. You need to be doing chocolates thorough. Alright? So please feel free to reach out to us with any questions. Will probably be going back to the other lessons since all the requirements that that goes back to what's required in a document. Thanks so much, guys. Okay. Sorry for subjecting everyone to know folks can be really dull. I mean, admittedly, I have read many no photos. I secretly get some joy out of it. I should probably talk to someone about that. I just wanted to give that, you know, you can see like, yeah, it's 50 pages, but there's certain sections that you should really hone in on that can answer questions. And then as you start developing those applications, you know, you're not alone. We're here, We can help you work through that note, vo Kersten, who you heard speaking. She mentioned the importance of checklists. Like that's something that we can absolutely help you do. We can read the novo and we can help you develop that checklist so that you don't miss anything, nothing falls between the cracks and it gets done in time. So I think that's enough on no foes for now. And I'm going to turn it over to Laurie to bring it home. Just a few slides left, everybody. Okay. Alright, everybody see this. Okay, So we heard a lot in that video as a taste said, and don't let it overwhelm you. Overwhelming, That's what we're here for. But just to drive home some of the really key relevant points. Timelines and deadlines are really important. If you miss the deadline, you can submit your grant. Sam.gov may take awhile, may take a month. You've got to get through your grants.com registration timelines for the no photos. You just want to build in enough time. And also for not only to put the application together, but also just for any kind of administrative issues you might run into, right? The good news is that many of these grants are recurring. So if you do miss it, that we can help get in the next round. Then the other thing is that you should, again, as I mentioned in the beginning, we really want to challenge everybody. Think about a five-year plan for all this fun thing, right? So maybe there's some projects that you have in your pipeline, that's great. But if you had five years of no recurring funding to do something really transformative. Thinking that way because this fig, this money doesn't come around very often and we don't know how long we're going to have it. So we really want to be there to help you take advantage of that. Cost-share requirements. Again, something to be very, they'll keep your eye on that. Most funding, federal funding require some type of math, whether it's state or county or even private. One thing to note though, is that sometimes in-kind can count as a metal, e.g. the hours of time that your team is putting in on a project. And again, we can help you navigate all that. Post approval. This is one of those things where you get those little projects and they say read all the directions before you do step one. And then you get all the way through. And then it says, okay, forget steps one through 13, go all the way to the end. Be familiar with are your post approval requirements. That way, you can be thinking about what information you need to collect and submit all the way through the process. They are going to have to double-check the identity, your record rather, the federal awarding performance and integrity information system. No shortage of acronyms. Acronyms here. Have your most recent audit ready? You're going to have to have your representatives identified for your single points Tags. And then also if you have any indirect costs, are going to need a copy of that agency. Indirect cost equity. And so that's it for homework. We do want to help you register if you're not already on grants.gov. Also register or update your registration on sam.gov. And Matt showed you how to find out who that point of contact is. Figure out who's person in your organization, or your city or your town who has this information right now, again, we can help them do that. Reacher, research on a grant-making agency about a project that your town might have an acute and look for some of those opportunities. And then when you're ready, we can help take you through that process. We are going to leave you with some additional resources here that you can look out for. Again, this is all going to be made available to you. In terms of next steps. We have the next session on March 28th from 1030 to noon. We're going to be really kind of taking a deeper dive into identifying your projects and prioritizing them, right? There's there's different types of projects. And when someone comes to working with us, we always add, right? This is a concept. Is it shovel-ready? Does it have been associated with it? So it will be digging into that a bit more. Everybody who is on this training session is going to be automatically registered. And anyone who goes through all five will actually be getting a certificate granted element, which is a new certification that begins to suit this putting together. So with that, we just want to say thank you. Any questions We're gonna be looking at the chat. Once we wrap this up, see what questions we have. Any questions you can reach out to us at this cramped I'm sorry, at this email address I gave das grams at the Delta E that goes from entirety. Right. So with that, let's see, I am going to I asked him that goes through the irony. Yeah. I went through I know the two questions were the two early questions. Where will the slide deck be available and will the recording be available? And yes, give us a couple of days to download and share the recording that'll be shared on our website. We can send the slide deck to everyone with the emails that you provided on your registration. So yes and yes to those. And then the one the other question that I saw in the chat was from Amanda Marlowe. And I think this might be a Mac question. How do we our bank information on or through sam.gov? So this would be great homework for you, for free you Amanda. Amanda would be great homework for Amanda. Amanda. Hopefully you can still with us and you can hear. So basically you just log in to sam.gov and then there's a way to update various elements of your information. So as long as you have your Sam duct of login, which I'm hoping that you still have in your UI. Then it's something that we can certainly help you navigate the process through. But really it is a process through same.gov. It's just updating its the same way you would update contacts or anything like that. And it's certainly something I'm not sure. Amanda, can you drop in the chat? Where what town are you from? I had been waiting for us for ten days. Is this normal? It could be. Yeah. City of Harrington. Okay. Great. Okay. Oh, Amanda. Okay. Alright. I think I remember. Alright. Yeah. So Amanda, let's touch base. I believe we've had some e-mails or I've been on some emails potentially with you and you've been e-mailing with our Director for AI mix. But yeah, Quite frankly be the case ten days, I think that is actually what they recommend. So hopefully you'll get a response soon, but let's catch up offline about that. And we can certainly help you move that process forward. So if you haven't so if you don't have a UTI yes, then you're really are you creating an eye? It would maybe I'm thinking you're creating a registration. You can read. Just great. Yeah, that's what we're trying to do is created so we can get the grant through the Delaware division of arts. Oh, okay. And that's so is that a federal offense? Yeah. Okay. Great. Yeah. So this is Joanna I'm speaking with yeah. With Harrington. No, I'm with the coastal camera club and Lewis. Oh, okay. Great. And different question. That wasn't there. Okay. Sorry. I overlap of questions there. So Amanda, I will touch base with you after the webinar and we can see where you're at. And then Joanne, I see that Lori dropped our contact information into the chat for you. So yes, it'd be great to contact info backed up. Yeah. Okay. So we can certainly put that back up. There we go. Yeah. So just so everyone knows who's on the call when you e-mail IPA, that's transit, you know that edu that goes through our whole grants team. So we kinda take it from there and then it comes to all of us and then we field it out from there and see who's running with what piece. But we all like to stay in the loop about what is happening. The different pieces that we have moving, which quite frankly are a good number. So if anybody else has any other questions, please drop those in the chat. We would be happy if you don't feel comfortable or don't want to ask your question in this format. I totally understand that as well. And that can please just reach out to us at IPA, Dutch grants will get back to you and we can zoom or talk you through whatever challenges you might be having. I just wanted to say thank you again to everybody who participated today. We appreciate you being our Guinea pigs for this first round. We'll be refining things as we go along. But we really just want to emphasize again how much our team enjoys working with your communities. It's really very rewarding. So we look forward to working together and thank you all so much. Thank you very much, everyone. You guys have a good day. You as well. Thanks.
Grant Assistance Training Series: Session 1 Grants 101
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Do you have projects in your community that need funding? Have you always wondered about grants and how to access these opportunities? We invite you to embark on a journey into the wild world of Grant Funding!
The University of Delaware Grant Assistance Program is here to empower and support your funding endeavors. Please join us for our five-part series focusing on grants.
Participation in these trainings will earn credits toward the Delaware Certificate in Local Government Leadership and a new Grant Development Certificate.
The University of Delaware Grant Assistance Program is here to empower and support your funding endeavors. Please join us for our five-part series focusing on grants.
Participation in these trainings will earn credits toward the Delaware Certificate in Local Government Leadership and a new Grant Development Certificate.
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