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When you win, you celebrate, right? Well, yes, you celebrate, but you also notify your stakeholders of your success in winning a grant award. And you prepare for the implementation phase now that monies are on the way.

When you win a grant award, it’s important to remember to thank the funder (by a letter, a resolution, an invitation to your board meeting to acknowledge their monetary gift, and so on) and determine if you can issue a press release or if their contribution is confidential.

If your grant request wasn’t awarded, you have some critical steps to take to determine why your funding request was denied and when you can resubmit it. Follow these steps (and refer to Chapter 21 for more details):

1 Contact the funding agency and ask why your grant application wasn’t recommended for funding. Ask for a review of your application or for the reviewer’s remarks.You may have to ask for this feedback in writing so the grantors have a paper trail of whom they release information to and why.

2 When you know where the weakness is in your grant application, develop a plan for rewriting.You want to rewrite the weak sections of your narrative and ready it for submission to other grantors and even for future resubmission to the same grantmaking agency that rejected the first request. Grantors usually allow you to reapply in the next funding cycle (the next year).