“Have you posted the new deadlines yet?”

As some of you may know, we removed the ODG application and deadlines from the website in March to make some slight changes as we enter the third year of grant making. We didn’t want this change to mean that applicants would need to wait considerably longer to learn about the status of their grant application: The total time from application deadline to decision will be about four and a half months, just a couple of weeks longer than in previous years.

The application is back online and only slightly different from the original version. We’ve received good feedback from organizations about the application’s ease of use and did not wish to make many changes to it moving forward. Applicants report that on average the application takes 5 12 hours to complete and 93% of applicants say that this effort to apply is appropriate for the amount of grant funding that’s available.