Video 17: Submitting the Application to ANA

Submitting the Application to ANA

This section provides a tutorial on how to submit your application through the Grants.gov web application. It has suggestions about how to create your files and uploading them.

Additionally, there are suggestions to avoid a few common mistakes when filling out some of the standard forms. Submit your application early in case of any technical difficulties!

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Hello and welcome to the 2025 ANA pre-application training, Submitting your ANA application.
After you've completed your project summary, you have a couple options on how to attach this document. You can either include it in File 1, which we recommend. You also have the option of attaching it in grants.gov in the Optional Workspace Attachment, as you can see on this screen.
Here's a checklist of documents that will be needed to submit. Please note that there are other documents in this checklist, but grants.gov will identify which documents are mandatory and which ones are optional for this funding opportunity.
When completing the SF 424 form, this is the funding for your project. In row A is where you'll indicate the request for the federal funds. This is all of the grant money with this opportunity. Row B is the applicant or match. And then if you're generating income with your project, you would indicate that amount in the box F. As a reminder, since ANA does full funding, please use the total for all project years in your SF 424 form.
An example of this, if you have a three-year SEDS project, and if you're requesting the ceiling, which would be 900,000, you would indicate 900,000 in the federal share, and then you would indicate the match that you're providing in the program income. When completing the SF 424A form, the left-hand column is where you will include ... you'll put down SEDS or SEDS AK based on the opportunity you're applying, for the CFDA number, and then we recommend separating the federal share and the non-federal share into two different rows. As you can see in this visual, the first row is the federal share amount. This is what is being requested from the grant. And your non-federal share in row two is the amount of match that your agency is providing. As a reminder, please again use the full funding for all budget years.
Section B of the SF 424A is where you will put down the full amounts for the object categories that we discussed in the budget video. Enter the subtotals under each column using the full funding amounts and ensure that you identify both the federal share in column one and the non-federal share, or match, in column two.
Section C has to do primarily with match. Here you'll indicate the sources of the match that you are providing with your [inaudible 00:03:07] If your applicant organization is the only one providing match, you'll see here that you provide ... you'll put down the number there in column B. However, if you're in a partnership or you're working with another entity and they're providing match, you'll include those amounts in column D, other sources.
Okay. When you go to upload your documents, we recommend having the following organization when you're compiling those. For File 1, these are the contents that we've discussed throughout the training. You'll take all of these sections, compile it into one document, save as a PDF, ensure that you're numbering the pages, and use this for your attachment for the project narrative attachment form. When you're ready to submit this document, after you've selected the project narrative tab, then select, mandatory project narrative file, and add attachment.
The upload for File 2 is similar. You'll attach all of the supporting documentation, which can include resumes, job descriptions, maintenance of effort forms. This is a good list and guide to follow for your second upload documents. Again, you'll select the other attachments form after you've compiled everything into a single PDF form and number the pages. However, continue the page numbers from that File 1 just so that it's organized for any readers after it's been submitted. After you've selected the other attachment files, you'll select, add attachment, mandatory other attachment.
And lastly, is the objective work plan. You have a couple different options on how to submit this document. We highly, highly encourage you saving it as a Word or PDF file, going to optional other attachments, and submit it that way. That way you don't have to worry about saving as you go, information being lost, it retains the formatting as well. So go ahead and attach the OWP and optional.
Once all of your documents have been attached to your application, you can do a validation check. It'll indicate if it has been passed, which you can see in the top left category. Make sure they're all unlocked, notify your AOR, and they will go through log in, sign, and submit the final application. You can watch the following video with the link provided to help you navigate this process.
Okay. And after you submit, the most important thing is that everyone's checking their emails. This includes your PIPD, your point of contact, your AOR. They should be accessible by both email and phone after submitting, as there may be questions, there may be things that come up, there may be errors. It's important that everyone's checking their stuff.
After the application's been submitted, there should be an initial email with a receipt email notifying your organization that your application was submitted. There will be another email that comes out called a validation email, and this indicates that grants.gov confirms your application's been successfully validated by grants.gov, and then an agency retrieval email will also take place after that.
Okay. After your application's been submitted and everyone's been notified that it's been received, the next step of the process is the merit review process. This is two week of what we call ANA panel, where we have reviewers from across the country read all of the grants that were submitted, score them accordingly through panel, and submit their scores to ANA. Following that process is an ANA internal review and final determination

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Training episodes

Video 1: Overview of ANA and the Funding Opportunities

Video 2: Project Introduction

Video 3: Current Community Condition

Video 4: Project Goals

Video 5: Objectives

Video 6: Project Implementation Plan

Video 7: Community Based Strategy

Video 8: Population to be Served

Video 9: Outcomes

Video 10: Objective Work Plan

Video 11: Data Management Plan

Video 12: Staffing Plan

Video 13: Partnerships and Consultants

Video 14: Oversight Plan

Video 15: Line Item Budget and Budget Narrative

Video 16: Preparing your ANA Application

Video 17: Submitting the Application to ANA

Video 18: Conclusion

Video 17: Submitting the Application to ANA

Submitting the Application to ANA

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