WebGrants |
Overview | Customers | Features |
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Grantor Functionality |
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General Features
- Publish grant opportunities via Web Interface
- Enables users to browse and search grant opportunities
- Receive online grant applications
- User and organization self registration
- Publish news, events, and announcements
- Publish grantor (internal) guidelines
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Fund Sources
- Fund Sources are revenue streams from donors and benefactors
- Funds from fund sources can be allocated to projects and grantees
- Funds in a fund source are either available, reserved or committed
- Fund sources can be easily tied to accomplishment data provided by the grantees
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Program Areas
- Program areas account for multiple divisions, branches, offices, etc within your organization
- Each division can have its own set of business rules, processes and users
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Opportunity Creation
- Create, manage, and publicize grant opportunities
- Create grant opportunities from multiple fund sources
- Create grant opportunities from multiple program areas
- RFPs can be created from predefined templates
- Standard RFP forms and associated documents are maintained in a central repository for easy access and RFP creation
- Email and fax support for letters of eligibility and intent to fund
- Broadcast email messages notifying registered grantees of new opportunities
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Application Submittal
- Read grant policies and procedures online
- Search available grant opportunities
- Applicants can reuse or resubmit old applications
- Online registration
- Context sensitive help and instructions are available online
- File attachments are supported
- Hardcopy applications can be downloaded or requested
- Error checking includes data type validation and data completeness
- Email notification of application submittal status
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Application Review
- Users can be designated as application reviewers
- Application are assigned to reviewers individually or in groups
- System maintains repository of predefined and editable review forms
- Reviewers enter scores and comments online
- Applications are sorted by score
- Multiple levels of review is supported
- Grantees are notified online and via email of application status
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Contract Negotiation
- Online collaboration allows private discussion between grantor and grantee
- Grantor and grantee can view application online
- Grantor can unlock application sections for grantee to edit
- Grantor and grantee can alternately edit the application
- Contract version control and history is maintained
- All changes are logged
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Grant Award
- RFP and application is selectively combined to create the grant contract
- Grant contracts are also created from templates
- Grantees are notified online and via email of grant award status
- Application data is copied automatically to the grant
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Contract Amendments
- Grantor can unlock sections of the contract for grantee to edit
- Historical versions of the data are maintained
- Changes are approved by the grantor
- Online collaboration allows private discussion between grantor and grantee
- All changes are logged
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Project Closeout
- Grantee submits final financial and status reports online
- Unspent funding is reapplied to fund source
- Final financial reports can be viewed online
- Historical grant and project data is saved
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