Grants.gov & the University of Michigan

Grants.gov is the federal web portal for finding grant opportunities from any federal agency and locating application packages, as well as where DRDA submits electronic applications.

A link to the federal site: Grants.gov

What's New. . . .

Use eResearch Proposal Management for most Grants.gov opportunities. The forms can be created in that system and submission is system-to-system.

Even Grants.gov submissions that cannot yet be handled system-to-system will be handled in eRPM for other processing and delivery to DRDA.

The DRDA Dropbox aka 'Packrat" has been retired so upload forms to eRPM

A link to eResearch

No more PureEdge. Adobe versions of forms now in use.

Cautions!

Be sure you have the latest version of the application packet for any particular opportunity.
You must use at least Adobe Reader or Professional 8.1.3 for the Adobe forms. Adobe 9 is recommended.
Earlier versions may not work, may lead to crashes, and have security vulnerabilities.
Adobe Forms are taking a long time to open and send through Grants.gov. Be sure to get the completed files to DRDA with a full four (4) business days for processing.

Note: Grants.Gov files sometimes get corrupted. Make a back up every time you save the file.

Grants.gov software download where you get free software needed for application packets.

All users: Adobe Reader 9.0 [You must purchase Adobe Acrobat Professional 9.0.]

Grants.gov Step by Step at UM [pdf]

A one-page overview of how to prepare grant applications using Grants.gov [04/2008]

How to Find an Application Packet on Grants.gov

Standard information for Application Forms

Subawards Information needed

Mac, other non-Windows users:

How you can use the Grants.gov Viewer Mac version

Note: if you downloaded an early version (before April 2007), please download the current one

Training

Register for sessions for using Grants.gov offered through DRDA (Continuously updated)

e-mail alert group about Grants.gov at UM from DRDA

Note: the group has been renamed eRPM-info because the eResearch Proposal Management system is the main way to prepare Grants.gov applications

:: How To join Grants-gov-info/eRPM-info

:: Archive of Messages from Grants-gov-info

Last reviewed: June 2009