Federal Grant Management Course
For Tribal Governments: From NOFO to Renewal
A free, self-paced course that teaches federal grant management as a discipline — not a product tutorial. Five modules, 3–4 hours total. Built for tribal grant writers, grants administrators, and finance officers.
Who this course is for
This course assumes no prior grant management experience. If you're a tribal employee who's been asked to “handle grants,” a new grants administrator learning the ropes, or a tribal council member who wants to understand how federal funding works — this is for you.
Each module includes hands-on exercises using real federal documents. By the end, you'll be able to analyze a NOFO, build a competitive application, manage an active award, and plan a multi-year funding strategy.
Course Modules
Reading a NOFO Like a Reviewer
Learn how federal grant applications are scored before you write a word. Understand NOFO structure, evaluation criteria, and what separates winning applications from the rest.
Building a Competitive Application
Understand proposal structure, logic models, capacity statements, budgets, and how to write every section as a rubric response.
Tribal-Specific Requirements and Compliance Foundations
Understand tribal resolutions, SAM.gov registration, indirect cost rates, sovereign immunity, and the federal compliance framework (2 CFR 200) that governs every grant.
Post-Award — Where Awards Are Won or Lost
Learn how to manage an active grant: reading a Notice of Award, reporting requirements, drawdowns, compliance monitoring, and closeout.
Renewal and Portfolio Strategy
Plan for grant renewal, build a multi-year funding portfolio, and protect institutional knowledge so your grant program outlasts any single person.
How to use this course
- Go in order. Each module builds on the previous one. Module 1 (reading a NOFO) feeds into Module 2 (writing an application), and so on.
- Do the exercises.They use real federal documents and build skills you'll use on every application.
- One module per day. Each module is 30–45 minutes. Completable in a week at a comfortable pace.
- Bookmark it.This course is a reference you can return to. Come back to specific modules when you're working on that phase of a grant.
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