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Running a grant round and reviews

Set up a grant, open a cycle for applications, and have reviewers score them blind.

October 2026 · 1 min read · Christopher Rachal

Grants and reviews

To open a cycle

  1. Open Give → Grants and select New grant. Add a Grant name and Grant description.
  2. Select + Add cycle. Set Opens, Closes, the Award and Awards available.
  3. Add Eligibility, Application questions and Scoring criteria.
  4. Select Create cycle, then Open cycle.

To review

  1. On the cycle, under Reviewers, select + Add a reviewer, find a contact and select Add.
  2. Select Send invite. Reviewers sign in at /reviews.
  3. Open a submission and select + Assign a reviewer.
  4. Reviewers score each section, select Review scores, then Submit scores.
  5. When every review is in, a person decides: Accept, Waitlist or Decline.

Good to know

  • A grant goes live only when a published program links it.
  • Reviews are blind. Reviewers see an application number, never a name.
  • Reviewers score by hand. The assistant never scores or ranks people.
  • Adding a reviewer emails no one. Only Send invite does.

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