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A government grant or cooperative agreement application is a written funding request you use to ask for money from a government agency. Government grant applications are specific to each of the federal grantmaking agencies. Even state agency grant applications that are funded with federal pass-through dollars closely mirror federal grant application guidelines and grantee requirements.

Each federal agency has dozens of agencies under its wing that release Notices of Funding Availability (NOFAs), Notices of Funding Opportunity (NOFOs), Request for Applications (RFAs), Funding Opportunity Announcements (FOAs), or Request for Proposals (RFPs). Each NOFA, NOFO, RFA, FOA, and RFP has different funding priorities and guidelines for what you need to write in order to submit a responsive and reviewable grant application.

Government and other types of grant applications generally require that you write narrative responses for the following sections (each of which I cover in more depth in Part 4):

 Executive summary or abstract

 Statement of need

 Program design or methodology

 Adequacy of resources or key personnel

 Evaluation plan

 Organization background/history or organization capability

 Sustainability statement

 Budget

A foundation or corporate grant application typically takes the form of a proposal. A proposal is a structured document that must follow each grantmaker’s specific guidelines. Writing a proposal to a foundation or corporation requires the same adherence to the guidelines and incorporation of relevant information as completing government grant applications.

Note: Some foundations and corporate grantmakers accept the Common Grant Application format; see the later section, “Getting your request in the door at foundations and corporations,” for more details on this format.