Working document
The Award Letter Intake Checklist
Work this list the week an award letter arrives and no date inside that grant will surprise you eleven months from now.
Free resources
Resources for the Person Who Carries the Grant Calendar
Everything here is built for an office where the same person writes the proposal, files the report and remembers the renewal date.
The resources on this page came out of the same conversations that shaped GrantClock: a development director with fourteen live grants and no single view of them, an executive director who found out about a lapsed federal registration the week a submission was due, a two person office deciding in October which application to drop. None of those are planning problems. They are visibility problems.
Use the calculators to size the risk and the workload in your own numbers, the award letter checklist to stop new grants from arriving undated, and the comparison pages to decide honestly whether a calendar, a research tool, a full grantseeking system or a database you build yourself is the right answer for your office this year.
Free tools
Grant Calculators for Small Development Offices
Two quick tools for the questions a small grants office argues about every fall: what a missed date really costs, and how many hours deadline season honestly needs.
Comparisons
GrantClock Compared With the Other Grant Tools You Are Weighing
Every small development office ends up choosing between a funder research tool, a full grantseeking system, a database you build yourself, and a calendar that watches the dates you already owe.
Main guide
How to Build a Twelve Month Grant Calendar From Your Award Letters
The pillar guide settles how to turn signed award letters into one twelve month calendar carrying every application, report, registration and renewal date your office owes.
Magazine
The Grant Cycle
Grant calendars, funder deadlines, federal reporting rules, and the economics of running a small nonprofit development office in the United States.
About
Who writes all of this
The author page covers who writes here, the years spent around award letters, interim reports and fall deadline season in small nonprofit development offices, and why every tool on this site starts at the date rather than at the proposal.
Free material is not a grant calendar
The checklist, the calculators and the comparisons cover the thinking behind a well run grant year, and they are yours with no account. Running that year means somebody remembers in March what the award letter said in October, chases the program numbers before each report, and notices the renewal window on a funder who has given for six years. Book a demo and watch that happen against your own portfolio.