EdGrants & GEM$: User Guides, Information and Trainings

This is where you can find all information, user guides and trainings related to EdGrants.

• EdGrants Front Office Website

GEM$: User Guides, Information and Trainings

• GEM$ Final Expenditure Report (FER) Slides

EdGrants User Information

• EdGrants: User Security Controls

EdGrants User Guides

• EdGrants Front Office User Guide: Requesting Funds

• EdGrants Front Office User Guide: How to Apply

• EdGrants Front Office User Guide: Amending the Application Submission — Updated 10/10/2018

• EdGrants Front Office User Guide: Filing Final Financial Reports (FR-1)

Interdepartmental Service Agreements (ISAs)

Interdepartmental Service Agreements (ISAs) are contract documents required when Commonwealth Department awards grant funding to another Commonwealth Department (Community Colleges and County Sherriff Departments and MA state agencies).

To ensure allowable fund use, the grantee must obtain approval by the program office. All grants must be submitted in the grants system, including proposed budget line items, prior to the Grants Management office beginning the ISA process with the entity receiving the grant funds. EdGrants requires a crosswalk submission to generate the ISA. GEM$ grants include an ISA crosswalk tab in the application.

Any revisions that impact the object classes would trigger a revised ISA based on the new crosswalk. Once completed ISAs are signed by the applicant and by DESE, the grant will be processed through the DESE fiscal approved step. Keep this workflow in mind and please always respond timely with signed ISAs so we can process your grant and/or revision.

• ISA Revisions (for State Colleges/Universities, State Agencies & Correctional Facilities)

• ISA MMARS Timeline (for State Agencies & Correctional Facilities)

• State ISA Grant Amendment Process (for State Agencies & Correctional Facilities)

• Federal ISA Grant Amendment Process (for State Agencies & Correctional Facilities)

Grants Management Webinars

Grants management is available to assist with hand on training if needed. Click below if you'd like to request a grants management training for you or your team. Please include the specific topic you'd like to focus on so that we can determine whether program staff with programmatic expertise on a particular grant also needs to attend. (i.e., training on how GEM$ calculates indirect costs, MTRS overview, etc.)

ISA Webinars — This training will cover the basic start-up of the grant cycle and grant activities that occur throughout the grant cycle as well as the grant closeout process.

• Requesting EdGrants Front Office User Access
• Application Submission
• Crosswalk
• Amendments
• Final Reports

Request for Grants Training

Last Updated: July 25, 2025