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The Grants.gov/Find
(Grants/Find) system makes information about Federal grant
and other financial assistance opportunities available at a single
point of entry on the Web. (Below and elsewhere on this website,
the term "grant" includes grant as well as other financial
assistance programs). The Grants/Find system provides potential
grant applicants ready access to opportunities offered by agencies
across the government.
ISC developed the system for the government, leveraging the architecture
and functionality developed for FedBizOpps. ISC scaled the system
into production in September 2003 and currently hosts, operates
and maintains the system. Since that time, the system has enabled
potential grant applicants and other members of the public to use
their standard web browsers to conduct searches by CFDA, funding
activity, and retrieve notices of grant opportunities and related
documents posted by agencies on the system. As in the case of FedBizOpps,
users can register to receive automatic notices of announcements
from specified agencies or types of financial assistance programs.
On June 26, 2003, OMB directed agencies to post discretionary grant
opportunities on Grants/Find. The Grants/Find system is being integrated
into the government's new Grants.gov system.
Like FedBizOpps, Grants/Find uses an open standards architecture
and is capable of evolving to provide enhanced functionality and
take advantage of new technology. Agencies can take advantage of
that capability and ISC's e-forms solution (see discussion accessible
via products) to deploy quickly, with low risk, and at low cost
the capability enabling applicants to submit grant applications
electronically and enabling agencies to process those applications
electronically. Grants/Find can serve as a highly versatile platform
for exploiting opportunities to reengineer business processes and
transform agency grant making and administration activities through
greater use of electronic processing and Web technologies.
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