Other side of the coin: Applying for grants

Although the CiviGrant component is primarily intended for the grant administration process, presuming that the organization implementing CiviCRM is the grantor disseminating funds, it's worth noting that the grant tools can be adapted easily to manage your organization's applications for grants from other entities.

In this alternate case, the contact record you are working with is the grantor, rather than the grant applicant and potential grantee. You are using CiviGrant to track your application to the organization and subsequent communication transpiring over the course of the process.

Since the workflow is essentially identical regardless of which direction you are coming from in the process, we simply need to alter terminology throughout the interface to better communicate your role as a grant applicant. There are two ways this can be accomplished—by modifying the CiviCRM template files, or using the word replacement tool. As a general rule...