Grants.gov

Although you are instructed to do so at the Grants.gov website,
DO NOT REGISTER!

The University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire is already registered as an institution through Grants.gov, and no additional registration by Principal Investigators or Project Directors is necessary.

Many federal grant programs now or soon will require electronic submission of proposals through Grants.gov. This website is a single access point allowing organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all federal grant-making agencies including grant programs such as NSF, NIH, NEH, US Department of Education, USGS, DHHS, etc., routinely used by UW-Eau Claire faculty and academic staff. See http://www.grants.gov for complete details.

Grants.gov is a new electronic submission system and is unfamiliar to most investigators. If your proposal requires submission through Grants.gov, you must contact ORSP well in advance of due dates in order to assure an on-time application through this federally required system.

Once on the Grants.gov web page you must find and download an application package using the free PureEdge software provided on the website (http://www.grants.gov/DownloadViewer). When you have completed and saved all required forms and fields, the proposal will be ready for submission.

You cannot submit the electronic proposal directly to Grants.gov, rather you must transfer the completed files to the ORSP. Place the completed application package on the Grants.gov shared drive
(\\fs3\grantssh$\) for submission by the Authorized Organizational Representative.

Tips for Using Grants.gov

1. Use Internet Explorer.
2. Enable cookie support and pop-ups.
3. Use a PC; the system is currently not compatible with Macs.
4. Save the file downloaded in PureEdge to your hard drive before entering information into the file.
5. After entering data into the file, click the SAVE button. The file does not automatically save the data.
6. Notify ORSP as soon as you begin the application process, or even before.
7. Transfer ready-to-submit, completed files to the Grants.gov shared drive (\\fs3\grantssh$\) for submission along with the Extramural Support Transmittal form found at http://www.uwec.edu/orsp/forms.htm at least six days prior to the federal due date. Alternatively, bring the completed application to ORSP on a memory stick or CD Rom.

Form 424 R&R

The first form you should complete in any Grants.gov application is the 424 R&R. Once saved it will populate other required forms. Here is the information you will need for this initial form:

Introduction to Grants.gov (PowerPoint file for presentation on 8/30/06.)