What is a grant?
“Writing is easy. All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead.” – Gene Fowler A grant provides financial support for research and research-related activities for specific topics or areas of interest. Grant seeking is big business; about one hundred fifty billion is spent on grants each year in the United States alone, and more than nine thousand public and private granting programs can be identified. Grant funding varies depending on the sponsor and the scope of the project. Grants can be limited to a specific time frame or on-going. An application for a research grant is normally submitted by investigators to public or private granting bodies such as the U.S. Government.
A grant provides for the transference of money, services, property, or anything of value from a Federal agency to the grantee in order to support the general public. Grantees or other agencies will find this information useful when writing for Federal money to support a program that will benefit the public at-large.
For the purposes of PARS21, a grant is a financial award made by the ESFL Program or the 21stCCLC Program to a qualified recipient based upon statutory and/or department criteria. Q: What is a “contract?” A: Each year of a grant program is considered a contract. (For example, a three-year grant would consist of three “contracts.”) Breaking a grant period into contract years provides a mechanism for tracking annual grant activity. For example, if the grant period is from October 1, 2005, to September 30, 2009, the first contract period might be October 1, 2005, to September 30, 2006; the second contract period might be October 1, 2006, to September 30, 2007; and so on for the duration of the grant. Q: What is a “partner agency?” A: A partner agency is an entity that, in cooperation with the grantee/lead agency, designs, executes, and expends financial or human resources on the grant program. The ESFL Program requires a partnership between at least one LEA or IHE and one or more of the o
For the purposes of PARS21, a grant is a financial award made by the ESFL Program or the 21stCCLC Program to a qualified recipient based upon statutory and/or department criteria. Q: What is a “contract?” A: Each year of a grant program is considered a contract. (For example, a three-year grant would consist of three “contracts.”) Breaking a grant period into contract years provides a mechanism for tracking annual grant activity. For example, if the grant period is from October 1, 2005, to September 30, 2009, the first contract period might be October 1, 2005, to September 30, 2006; the second contract period might be October 1, 2006, to September 30, 2007; and so on for the duration of the grant. Q: What is a “partner agency?” A: A partner agency is an entity that, in cooperation with the grantee/lead agency, designs, executes, and expends financial or human resources on the grant program. The ESFL Program requires a partnership between at least one LEA or IHE and one or more of the o
