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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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