Submitting Your Grant Proposal Electronically

Even though your grant proposal is now submitted electronically, you still need to get prior internal approvals before you submit.  Most sponsors that allow electronic grant proposal submissions permit the PI or PD to upload their grant proposal but require that an authorized institutional official electronically submit and/or sign the grant proposal before it is "officially submitted".  If you plan to submit a grant proposal electronically, please contact Cynthia Hardin 3-5 days before the deadline. 

Want to send ORSPA a grant proposal electronically?

Send it to us at research@etsu.edu via the ETSU OIT drop box service  https://www.etsu.edu/oit/helpdesk/dropbox/

Grants.gov

Grants.gov is a federal Web site that lists most federal funding opportunities. As paper submissions of grant applications become more and more rare, application packages are available for download from Grants.gov and are submitted through that website.

As of the Spring of 2009, the transition from PureEdge to Adobe is 100% complete, with all Federal agencies now receiving applications through Grants.gov using the Adobe Acrobat Reader.  You must have a compatible version (8.1.3 or higher) of the Adobe Reader, free software available from grants.gov at

 http://www.grants.gov/help/download_software.jsp#adobe811

in order to access, complete and submit grant applications.  Please check the funding announcement for any specific information on submission requirements.

Please note that in order to create .pdf documents from your Word, Excel or PowerPoint files, you will need .PDF generation software -- may need to purchase a licensed copy of Adobe Professional or other such software.  You can find a list of .PDF generation software at http://www.grants.gov/agencies/software.jsp#3. 

For more information about the transition to Adobe Reader, please see the our Reader Info page

ETSU as an institution is registered with Grants.gov. Individuals do NOT register with Grants.gov to submit grant proposals.

Submitting a grant proposal to the National Institutes of Health?

Visit our NIH Electronic Submission page for
detailed information on the process.