Where can I find information about federal grants?
Summary:
News of a website which consolidates federal grant information and of a service that supports detailed searching.
Answer:
Join Together Online posted on October 10, 2003, a review of the federal government's efforts to make grant information more easily accessible. See http://www.jointogether.org/sa/news/funding/reader/0%2C1854%2C567206%2C00.html
A key sentence reads: "By this month, grant-seekers should be able to find information on every grant offered by the federal government on one website -- http://www.grants.gov. And federal administrators are optimistic that visitors will be able to submit a single, unified application for multiple grants by Oct. 31. "
Emil Sotirov (mailto: idimagic@skylink.net) wrote to soc.org.nonprofit
to announce his firm's product on 8/6/96:
Federal Money Retriever(TM) for Windows(TM) (One-Stop Reference to ALL
FEDERAL FUNDING PROGRAMS)
"Miracle workers with the Federal programs inventory..." Lester Salamon,
Director, Institute for Policy Studies, Johns Hopkins University
WEB SITE: for more information and to order http://www.idimagic.com
DESCRIPTION: Federal Money Retriever is a software package offering the
most current information on federal programs -
grants, loans and all other forms of assistance. Registered users
receive database updates as often as the government updates this type of
information (usually twice yearly).
RECOMMENDED BY: American Library Association (ALA), Entrepreneur
Magazine, The Chronicle of Philanthropy, The Society for Nonprofit
Organizations (national), National Business Incubation Association
(NBIA), Association for Community-Based Education, International
City/County Management Association (ICMA), American Rehabilitation
Association and many state associations of local governments and
nonprofit organizations... In it's Fall'95 Electronic Showcase (featured
review in Booklist, November 1, 1995), the American Library Association
placed the Retriever among the three best electronic reference
publications in the U.S. for the second half of 1995! (see
"Endorsements" at the Web Site)
TYPICAL USERS: Nonprofits, educational institutions, libraries, health
organizations, state and local governments, start-up and consulting
businesses, and individuals looking for federal grants, loans and other
forms of assistance. Just recently, over 900 subscriptions for the
Retriever were purchased by state associations of county and city
governments in Oregon, Nevada, Utah, Arizona and Idaho! (See "Sample of
Users" at the Web site)
Based on information from official federal publications, the Federal
Money Retriever software has the capability to instantly calculate
specific total amounts of federal spending according to the following
indexes:
1) Agencies (exactly how much is spent by each federal agency) 2)
Functional Categories (broadly defined areas of federal spending) 3)
Beneficiaries (eligible recipients of federal assistance) 4) Subject
Terms (pre-defined set of keywords used by the federal agencies to mark
each federal program's functionality)
What is more, calculated are amounts for LAST, CURRENT and NEXT years -
which shows clearly tendencies in the spending for specific
categories... by specific federal agencies... etc.
Emil S. Sotirov
IDI Magic Valley Technologies Corporation
P. O. Box 97655
Las Vegas, NV 89193-7655
