Sub-Award Management
Determining
Your Sub-Award Process | Step
2: Reviewing and Selecting Sub-Awardees
Step 1: Soliciting Applications
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Many intermediaries view the sub-award process as a training and
technical assistance opportunity to help applicants further build
their capacity in fundraising. JVA Consulting requires all potential
applicants to attend training workshops and to participate in one-on-one
technical assistance addressing proposal preparation. These mandatory
workshops are held prior to each grant deadline to help organizations
understand the grant process and comply with all requirements. The
workshops emphasize that the sub-award is not just onetime funding,
but is an opportunity to build an applicant’s understanding
of grant-seeking, grant-management and grant-reporting requirements.16
If your organization cannot or chooses not to provide formal training workshops or individualized technical assistance to support applicants, you may want to consider providing training and technical assistance for applicants either online or by phone. Any assistance your organization provides can bring benefits such as eliminating non-eligible applicants, helping make individual applications stronger and helping ensure accountability of sub-award funds. For more information on designing a training and technical assistance plan which includes sub-award applicant training, see the Delivering Training and Technical Assistance guidebook, part of the National Resource Center’s Intermediary Development Series.
Determining
Your Sub-Award Process | Step
2: Reviewing and Selecting Sub-Awardees