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Be Nice to Your Applicants Grants Management
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Jessica Gronich

Be Nice to Your Applicants

 Here’s Why You Should Make Things Easier on Them—and Yourself! We all know that having a positive reputation among applicant pools is essential. It can help to ensure that you attract the best applicants to your grants. But do you know what your applicants really think about your application process?

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Power of the Panel - GO Smart
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Jessica Gronich

The Power of the Panel

The GO team is sharing four helpful tips to help you utilize the power of the panel to keep your grants management process effective and efficient. Just like standards for grant applications, panel processes can vary widely from organization to organization. Although customization for your specific needs can be great,

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Transitioning to Online Grants Management
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Jessica Gronich

Transitioning from paper to an online grants management system

Changing a tried and true process can be daunting in grants management due to the number of stakeholders involved in the process. You need an online grants management process that is simple for applicants, efficient for administrators, and easy for panelists–meeting all of these obligations is sometimes hard.Though it may

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Media Library Tools

Learn more about the elements of setting up the Media Library Modules (Administrator Step 1) here. While setting up a Media Library Selection Page, aka the Work Sample Select page on some existing or cloned cycles (Administrator Step 2), craft your own language for the Info/Instruction section or use our

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Grant Management Doesn't Need To Be Complicated
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Jessica Gronich

Grants management doesn’t need to be complicated

Learn how to simplify your grants management process and save more time so you can focus on the big stuff With all of the paperwork, accountability, and document retention that already comes with grant-making, why are we making our jobs more difficult by having multitudes of programs and lengthy grant

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