Create a Grants Calendar
Once you have identified funders for a project, and have moved their profiles into the My Plan section of your personal dashboard, you can build a grants calendar for at least the next six to 12 months. This will be your work schedule.
It may be useful to have two calendars: a master calendar with basic deadlines noted, and a more detailed working calendar. The master calendar will include the dates you have already identified in My Plan. However, your working calendar is something altogether different. This calendar denotes all the tasks you need to complete in order to apply.
Every project that requires funding will have a working calendar associated with it. You will want to review the application guidelines for each funder, adding tasks to the working calendar that need to be accomplished so you can meet deadlines. Use the information from your Proposal Writing Schedule to put into your master calendar. Keep in mind every funder’s guidelines are different; there is no “one...
