Subject Line: The first 90 days after funding — when everything can go right (or very wrong)
The examples in this newsletter are drawn from real partnership experiences. Names and identifying details have been altered to protect privacy.
Who's This For
You got the email. The proposal was funded.
There's a moment of celebration — you earned this. But almost immediately, a different kind of pressure sets in. The proposal that felt like an end goal is now a starting gun. Everything you promised is about to become real.
This newsletter is for PIs, co-investigators, project coordinators, and partnership professionals navigating those first critical months after award notification. It's for anyone who has ever felt the strange vertigo of moving from "we hope this happens" to "now we have to make this happen."
It's also for people who've been through this before and know how easily the momentum of funding notification can turn into the chaos of implementation without clear structure.
The first 90 days after funding set the trajectory for everything that follows. This is where partnerships either operationalize or unravel. Get it right, and you build habits that sustain the project. Get it wrong, and you spend the next three years trying to recover from early missteps.