The Grant Lifecycle of Grants and Cooperative Agreements
- Finding Opportunities
- Applying for an Awardnot completed
- Managing an Awardnot completed
- Closing Out an Awardnot completed
Step 1 of 4 Grant Lifecycle
Finding Opportunities
OASH program offices announce discretionary funding opportunities for grants and cooperative agreements each Fiscal Year (FY) on grants.gov. The Grants and Acquisitions Management Division (GAM) oversees the management and administration of the funding opportunities.
All grants and cooperative agreements funding opportunities are initially published as forecasts to alert the public of planned opportunities. GAM highly encourages you to subscribe to any forecast that you has your interest. This will ensure you receive notification with the competition is open.
A competition is open when GAM officially publishes a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) on grants.gov. The NOFO describes the specific details of what the program office is looking to support, the eligibility requirements for applicants, the application content, and the review process.
Technical assistance webinars are offered for each NOFO and recordings are posted. Out of fairness to all applicants, we do not provide one-on-one technical assistance during the application period. The NOFO posted as a PDF on grants.gov takes precedence over all other content for the competition. Subscribing to the NOFO on grants.gov will ensure that you receive notification if revisions to the NOFO are posted.
Searching Grants.gov
Grants.gov is the federal-wide portal for announcing funding opportunities for federal grant-making agencies.
Quick Search - OASH Grant Funding Opportunity
To access NOFOs for latest grant and cooperative agreement opportunities the following steps;
Visit Grants.Gov
In the Agency field, first select the “+” next to All Departments of Health and Human Services, then select “Office of the Assistant Secretary for Health [HHS-OPHS]” from the selections.
You may further refine your search by Eligibility, Category, and Funding Instrument Type.
Review results and select the Funding Opportunity # for more information
Be Ready to Apply - Register Early
OASH recommends applicants start the registration process early. To submit an application in grants.gov, applicants must have an Employer Identification Number, a Unique Entity Identifier, an active SAM.gov registration, and a workspace in grants.gov. All registrations are FREE of cost. It may take up to 2-3 weeks (or longer during periods of high volume) for all registrations to become active.
Items to Note
If your organization has not previously applied for federal assistance, start your registration in SAM.gov as soon as possible. You will automatically be assigned a Unique Entitle Identifier (UEI) when registering.
If you previously had a SAM registration, ensure that your registration is still active and take note of your expiration date.
SAM registration must be renewed annually.
DUNS Number has been replaced by a new Unique Entitle Identifier (UEI) in SAM. Check your SAM registration to see your new UEI.
If you have submitted applications in Grants.gov before, ensure that everyone who will need access has access to your workspace.