Multiple PI Timeline
Six to 12 months out
- Identify funding sources & deadlines
- (Grants consultants can help with this step)
- Think about project
- Talk with program officers
- Develop strategy & arguments
Nine to six months from deadline
- Meet with grants consultant
- Bring funding announcement
- Consultant: develops work plan & schedule with you
- PI/administrator: Prepares bio
- PI: Identifies writers of letters of support, if any
Three to six months before deadline
- PI: Develops proposal narrative, solicits comments from colleagues
- PI: Develops budget with help from grants consultants, departmental accountant, &/or grants management coordinator
- PI: Identifies appendices
- Consultant: Assembles appendices, letters of support
- PI, Departmental Administrator, or consultant: Sets up PRF
- Grants Management Coordinator (Gayle Anderson): Assists with budget development
Four to 12 weeks before deadline
- Consultant: Edits, advises, revises narrative
- Grants Management Coordinator: Reviews budget
- Consultant: does final review of entire proposal
Seven to ten business days before deadline
- Route PRF by x500 number as follows:
- PI
- Departmental Chair
- Departmental Chair
- Dean’s Office
- CLA Grants Management Coordinator
- Dean’s Office (for CLA, Jo-Ida Hansen)
One week before deadline
- PI/administrative help: Proposal assembly
Five days before deadline
- PI/administrative help: Deliver full proposal to SPA
- If you submit through grants.gov, stay in touch for 2 days