The Notice of Grant Award Posted on December 4, 2007 Victoria J. Grochocinski (bio) urges NGA recipients to read the notice carefully.

When your Notice of Grant Award comes in be sure you read that word for word, and if you do not understand something be sure you ask, because it is like a contract. And remember that your grant is a contract between the government and your university, and you are just a person who is going to get the work done. And so the NGA will outline all the rules that the university must follow in spending the money. Mostly it has to do with spending the money and sometimes there will – a lot of times it’s standard language, but sometimes there will be special accommodations that – or not accommodations, but special restrictions that they will put on your grant, so you have to pay attention to those.

It will specify when your progress report or continuation report is due, when your final report is due, and you have to follow those rules. If you are not in compliance with the NIH rules it could jeopardize your next funding.

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