Watch a program for its next round

Many funders run the same program every year or every cycle. When you watch a program, GrantCue alerts you when one of its rounds is announced, opens, changes or closes, so you do not have to keep checking the funder's site. A watch belongs to you and to your active organization. Watching does not apply for funding or contact the funder.

Start watching

1. In Discover, switch to Program listings, or open a program's own page.
2. Choose Watch for the next round. Alerts in GrantCue start at once. Email stays off until you turn it on for that program.

Client (view only) members do not see the watch controls. When a round is open and GrantCue lists it as an opportunity, you can save it to My grants from the program's page.

The alerts you get

Each alert names the program and links to its page. GrantCue sends one when:

• A new round is listed for the program.
• The next round is announced. The alert gives the opening date if the funder published one, and says the round is not open yet.
• Applications open. The alert gives the deadline if one is published.
• The deadline or the expected opening date changes. The alert gives the old and the new date when both are known.
• The round closes. You keep watching the program for its next round.
• A preparation reminder you set comes due (see below).

Alerts appear in the notifications bell. Dates are given the way the funder published them: if the funder names only a month or a season, so does the alert.

Email and reminders

Choose Alert settings on a watched program. On the program's own page the settings are already open.

• Also email me about this program sends each alert by email as well. In-app alerts stay on while you watch, and every email has a one-click unsubscribe link.
• Remind me before an announced opening sends a preparation reminder a set number of days before the opening date, from 1 to 180 (30 unless you change it). To change the number later, enter it and choose Save reminder days.

A reminder goes out only after the funder has announced an opening date, and it never means the round is open. You get one reminder for each announced date. If the opening date moves, you can get another for the new date.

See, pause and stop your watches

Programs I watch, under Discover in the menu, lists every program you watch with its next round, its last recorded change and when GrantCue last checked it. Programs with an open round come first, then those with an announced round. If you belong to more than one organization, each row says which organization the watch is for.

• Pause alerts stops every alert for that program until you choose Resume alerts. Changes that happen while alerts are paused are not saved up for later.
• Stop watching removes the watch. Undo, in the message that follows, watches the program again with in-app alerts only and no reminder.
• The unsubscribe link in a program email pauses that watch and turns its email off.
• A program that is no longer publicly listed shows as Program no longer listed. It sends no alerts, and you can stop watching it.

An alert reports what GrantCue found on the funder's pages. Confirm the dates and rules on the funder's own page before you apply.