Chapter 11. Providing Support: Grant Management

We've covered a lot of ground so far, and have now come to the last chapter dealing directly with constituent-record data tools. In this chapter, we will discuss grant management. If you are an organization that manages and disseminates grants, CiviCRM provides some basic tools to help you collect and track details related to the grant management process. If your organization is typically on the other side of the equation, that is, applying for grants, rather than disseminating them, then you may still find the CiviGrant tool useful for managing that process. Toward the end of this chapter we will offer some suggestions for reconfiguring the CiviGrant component in a few small ways so that you can use it to track the grants you are applying for.

In this chapter, we will cover:

• Defining the grant application process

• Managing grantees

• Tracking grant applications

• Applying for grants

Using these tools helps you integrate this process with your other constituent...