Step 7. Set a date to update your data

Now is a good time to decide when you will update your data and set a date that you will work towards.

How often you should publish your grants data will be different for every funder, and will depend on your grant cycles and how much time you have to give to the task. Some funders publish every quarter, or every six months, or whenever a new round of grants is awarded. 

You should update your grants data at least once every year. 

Checklist 

You’ve reached the end of Stage 3: Publish! Now complete the checklist:

Have you…

• Chosen which open license you will use?
• Saved your file of data somewhere online, with your license?
• Confirmed that you will be able to maintain a live link to the file online, so that we can continue to fetch the data into our tools?
• Sent us some more information, including your logo?
• Told us who your primary contact will be?
• Given us a contact address to use if a grantee requests a change to your published data?
• Submitted the link to your data file to our Data Quality Dashboard?
• Set a date for when you’ll next update your data?