Image: Module Entering Activity in the Grants Management System

It’s important that you start your grant as soon as you are able. Grants become open to school or district grant managers once the allocations have been entered into the Online Grants Management System. However, you won’t have access to it until your i4SEE coordinator assigns that grant to you. If you receive notice that grants are available and you don’t see yours in the system, contact your i4SEE coordinator and make sure you have been granted access.

Starting your grant early does not require you to add any activities. Starting the grant allows you to add up to three grant contacts that are responsible for that grant. It’s important for your program directors at the New Hampshire Department of Education (NHED) to know who is responsible for the grants, and to be able to send notes through the grants management system to those contacts. This is particularly important when school or district grant program managers have changed.

When your grant program managers change, you should update the contact information in all open grants, so that the the most current information is available to your program directors at NHED.

Read for Insight and Understanding

Read pages 1 -7 of the Online Grants Management System Handbook developed by NHED.

Review the Grant Management Tips from NHED.

There is more information available in the Grants Management subfolder in the Title IV.A Toolkit.

Reflection Questions: Know. Want. Learn.

What did I totally understand about using the Grants Management System?
What did I think I understood, but now either want more information, or understand it much better?
What new insights about starting new grants did I gain from this experience?

Next Steps: Things to Make or Do.

Check the contact information in all your open grants to make sure it is current. Update it not.
Talk with your Stakeholder Team about starting grants early and developing programs early so they can be approved and started early in the grant performance period.