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Weekly Training Webinars: Entity Management

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Session TopicEntity Management
Key AudiencesEntity Administrators
Description

Topics covered in this session include:

  • JustGrants roles and responsibilities 
  • JustGrants user management
    • Adding users, assigning roles, and confirming that accounts are successfully created
    • Assigning and reassigning users to applications and awards
    • Maintaining the entity profile and entity documents 
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Weekly Training Webinars: Grant Award Acceptance

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Session TopicAward Acceptance
Key Audiences

Entity Administrators, Authorized Representatives

Description

Topics covered in this session include:

  • New award notifications
  • Two-step process to review and accept (or decline) an award
  • Common questions about the process
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JustGrants Application Mechanics: Submitting an Application Training

March 2023

JustGrants is the U.S. Department of Justice’s grants management system. The JustGrants team is offering a recurring “Application Mechanics: Submitting an Application” webinar to provide targeted assistance to potential applicants applying for DOJ funding opportunities. This webinar’s targeted audience includes individuals with Entity Administrator, Application Submitter and/or Authorized Representative(s) in JustGrants. The webinar covers the following topics:

  • Preparing to apply
  • Completing the abbreviated application in Grants.gov
  • Entity onboarding and JustGrants access
  • JustGrants roles and responsibilities
  • Assigning users’ roles to applications
  • Completing, reviewing, certifying and submitting a JustGrants application
  • Attendee questions about application submission

Video run time: 1 hour 1 min. 31 sec.

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JustGrants Award Acceptance Virtual Q&A Session

April 2022

This Virtual Q&A Session is targeted to those JustGrants users with Entity Administrator or Authorized Representative roles and covers the following topics:

  • Determining when award acceptance occurs
  • Identifying which roles are involved in the award acceptance process
  • A demonstration of the process of accepting or declining an award
  • Common problems when accepting or declining an award, and how to mitigate them
  • Attendee questions about award acceptance

Video run time: 38 min. 41 sec. View the Presentation.

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Training: Weekly Training Webinars

The JustGrants team facilitates weekly sessions providing an opportunity for users to receive topic-specific training, direct technical assistance and support on JustGrants system functionality.

Training: Award Management

Key Audience: Grant Award Administrator, Entity Administrator, Financial Manager

The eLearning videos and Job Aid Reference Guides below will help users navigate the grants management functions in JustGrants. 

These training materials will demonstrate how to complete the following tasks:

  • Find award information, including details regarding Award Conditions, performance management and available funds
  • Access Funding Balance and Project Budget figures
  • Initiate and follow Grant Award Modifications...

Training: Award Acceptance

Key Audience: Authorized Representatives, Entity Administrator

Once notified of an award, entity users will either accept or the decline the award. The following training and resource materials explain the two-step process that the Entity Administrator and Authorized Representative(s) take to complete this action in JustGrants. 
 

Award Notifications

  • For successful applicants, award notifications are generally made by the...

Training: Application Submission

Key Audience: JustGrants Application Submitter(s), Entity Administrator

Learn how to submit an application for Department of Justice (DOJ) funding by following a step-by-step breakdown of the application process.

The following eLearning videos, reference guides, and other resources will help you successfully complete an application.

 

Learn all about DOJ’s application submission process, from deadlines to onboarding and final submission. The...

Training: Entity User Experience

Key Audience: All JustGrants Users

The following training materials support new users learn how to –

  • navigate the JustGrants Landing Page and details what information can be found on the Home Page,
  • begin acting on tasks assigned to a user, and
  • identify the capabilities of the six user roles.
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Training: Entity Management

Key Audience: Entity Administrators

The Entity Administrator is a key role, and every entity must have one. The following training and reference materials will help Entity Administrators manage their entity information, users, and documents. Get a quick start managing your entity with the Entity Administrator's Checklist or access the Entity Management Job Aid Reference Guide for detailed instructions, which are also broken out below. 

 

Frequently Asked Questions

View answers to frequently asked questions (FAQs) about the Justice Grants System (JustGrants), Grants.gov, System for Award Management (SAM), and the Automated Standard Application for Payments (ASAP). This page will be updated regularly as new information becomes available.