Grant writing best practices all look great on paper, and application requests for proposals look like exciting new ways to support your organizations goals and strategic plan. However, when you go to start applying, how do those best practices hold up against the timeline constraints that you have? When you go to start applying, what capacity does your organization have for completing an application, or for completing multiple applications at one time?
A sergeant from a large county sheriff’s department recently had the experience of applying for six federal applications within a two month window. Yes, six.
When I heard the final story of how many applications the department submitted in such a short period of time I had a number of questions running through my head.