A Guide to Managing Online Grant Applications

Developing efficient and effective practices in the early phases of the grant lifecycle can help organisations set a precedent to improve their whole project delivery and drive better project outcomes. Here’s how organisations can achieve a well-managed grant application process. 

Configure Your Online Grant Applications

Managing online grant applications is the starting foundation for a streamlined, modern grant journey. Publishing online grant applications is a critical first step towards improving full lifecycle grant program management. Secondly, pair online grant applications with integrated assessment workflows to capture and validate high quality data. Consequently, you're able to realise significant benefits and reduce the administrative burden.

Full grant lifecycle management

Full lifecycle management of grant programs is often hampered right from the start. Organisations frequently use separate systems and processes to capture grant applications, store expressions of interest and assess eligibility. Then communicating review results and managing the applicant details often are in separate systems again. Data is therefore collated from a variety of systems without the benefit of a trusted reference or direct connection to a single central baseline data set. However, these information silos are inefficient, lead to having to enter data multiple times and increase errors.

A full lifecycle management solution should start with integrating the online application process directly with assessment workflows and sound data management practices. With Enquire Fund Management by Tactiv, organisations harness an advanced program management solution that supports the ability to create configurable grant application forms. These application forms:

• Are published online
• Can be aligned and integrated with assessment workflows to support efficient traceable application review.
• Contain data that's improved with repeatable and standardised capture, automated form validations and 3rd party services to support verifications, such as confirmation of tax registration status.

Centralise Your Grant Application Data

Capturing grant applications online also ensures every application is stored in one place. Therefore, information is easy to retrieve and available to all team members and decision-makers. Workflows process these applications. They efficiently support enhanced decision-making processes because the data is properly managed in a single system. This way, everyone is drawing on the same and most up-to-date information.

Take the Complications out of Assessments

Improve the power and control over your grant applications. Design grant application forms with stages that are integrated with assessment workflows. If this is also backed by alerts and tracking, it allows you to control and manage the end-to-end process. The result? Transparency, traceability and compliance to policies and regulations.

Manage Reporting with Ease

Grant application status and project reporting is enhanced through integrating online applications, assessment workflows and improved data management. It reduces barriers between systems, but also in business processes and supporting teams. With easy, automated reporting and dashboards, you'll get your first glances into your program performance. Then reporting functionality, such as Enquire's Impact Reporting or the more advanced Reporting Warehouse, interrogate, interpret and visualise the information. Consequently, this provides a rich picture of the performance of your programs. Additionally, it shows you areas of improvement. A full end-to-end lifecycle management solution, including publishing grant applications online, provides the benefit of a 360° overview of your programs.

Watch: Managing Online Grant Applications with Enquire [2 min]

How Enquire Makes Managing Online Grant Applications Easier

With Enquire Grant Management Software, online funding applications are fully integrated with assessment workflows, and data validation and verification. As a result, organisations benefit from significant time and cost savings and improved data management.

Are you interested in how online application management to boost your programs? Then learn more about the software here.