We have a grant that is state funded.  It is a matching grant for conservation districts. We solicit applications in the late summer for the following year. The application it’s self is pretty easy and we haven’t gotten many complaints from applicants about it. However, our scoring committee has brought up concerns over the past few years. Some of the concerns for example are districts just copy and pasting their responses from the previous years. Some districts have more money, partners, etc. and hire grant writers so their applications are far superior. I am wondering if anyone has any application templates they could share with me, or different scoring criteria guidelines that they use. We score on a scale of 1-10 on 6 categories: Project Overview, Project Methodology, Adequacy of Resources, Partnerships, Deliverables, and Funding Preference. If that helps at all.