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Grant Management Handbook

Grants Management Handbook-PDF Version

Table of Contents

Introduction

Quickstart: Grants Pitfalls and Red Flag issues

Part I. Getting Started

1. Negotiating Awards with Funding Sources
2. Obtaining Governing Board and Administrative Approvals
3. Setting Up the Grant Budget
4. Hiring Project Personnel
5. Project Management and Evaluation
6. Human Subjects Research and the Institutional Review Board
7. Informed Consent and Assent
8. Stewardships and Ethics
9. Effort Documentation
10. Financial Disclosure to Avoid Conflict of Interest
11. Additional Grant Requirements

Part II. Implementing the Project

1. Managing Project Budgets
2. Grant Budget Cost Transfers
3. Purchasing with Grant Funds
4. Budget and Programmatic Changes
5. Recordkeeping, Program Reviews, and Audits
6. Communicating with the Funding Source
7. Project Evaluations and Reports
8. Project Publicity and Promotion
9. Dissemination of Project Results
10. Completing and Closing Out the Project

Part III. Forms and Other Helpful Information

1. Proposal Approval Summary (PDF)
2. Governing Board Action Item Samples (DOC)
3. Administrative Acceptance of Grant (PDF)
4. Effort Documentation
5. Commonly Used Institution Numbers (DUNS etc.)
6. Commonly Used MCCCD Budget Object Codes
7. Grant Terminology
8. Commonly Used Web Addresses
9. MCCCD Standards for Financial Disclosure to Avoid Conflict of Interest in Federally-Funded Projects