grantsCENTRAL™ maximizes your grantmaking efforts with features that automate, centralize and fully support your organization through the entire grant life cycle. Obstacles? Not when you have the power.
Arch Enemy: TIme
Secret Power: Speed of Light
eGrants Technology
- Start Now: Our expertise means applications can be online and open in days. Choose from standardized data and application components for quick implementation and rapid deployment.
- Shorten the Process: Efficient online format puts money to work fast.
- Make It Easy: Online applications eliminate paperwork and simplify the process.
- Get Instant Input: Immediate distribution to reviewers and instant feedback collation eliminate delays.
- Change Nothing: Web service (hosted by Altum) means no infrastructure to setup.
- Reduce Staff Workload: Communication tools provide updates to applicants and grantees conveniently.
- Get Answers: Built-in web-based reporting tools enable easy reporting and quick responses to questions.
Arch Enemy: Infinite Crisis
Secret Power: Human Cloning
People Productivity Tools
- Accomplish More: Automated processes enable more transactions.
- Access 24/7: Online access enables work to be done anywhere, anytime.
- Lighten the Load: Experienced customer service offloads primary call load. Online application validation eliminates administrative compliance checks.
- Get Information Fast: Standard reports provide fast access to information.
- Eliminate Delays: Online application distribution to reviewers and collation of feedback eliminates delays stemming from paper mountains.
- Meet Virtually: Online discussion and voting tools and mass communication tools eliminate costly and people-consuming face-to-face meetings as well as manual follow-up and tracking.
- Spotlight the Best: Online voting/ranking immediately tabulates best applications.
Arch Enemy: Burden of Proof
Secret Power: Bionic Memory
Impact/Outcomes Logic Framework
- Report ARRA Outcomes: Easily track the metrics and outcomes that must be reported and posted to Recovery.gov.
- Prove Your Case: Outcome tracking and progress reports substantiate impact.
- Follow the Rules: Online validation of applications ensures completeness and rule adherence. Automated grantee reporting, email alerts and contingencies on payment release ensure compliance.
- Access Information Fast: Reporting tools provide information fast.
- Be Consistent: Online processes ensure consistent handling for all applicants/grantees.
- Back Up with Facts: Online scoring, critiques and voting provide visible evidence to support selections.
- Give Feedback Fast: Option to provide automatic reviewer feedback to applicants closes the loop.
- Keep Perfect Records: Correspondence tracking and grant file notes maintain a record of communications
Arch Enemy: Dense Data
Secret Power: X-Ray Vision
Centralized Repository
- Centralize: All data, correspondence and documents are stored in one place.
- Be Consistent: Structured grant data based on standards enables consistent collection and reporting.
- Access 24/7: Reporting tools and secure web access provide anywhere, anytime access.
- Capture and Assemble Information Automatically: 100% online end-to-end processes – application, review, selection, progress monitoring, closeout – capture information throughout the grant life cycle. Screens assemble needed information for applicants, reviewers, grantees and staff.
Arch Enemy: Renegade Reporting
Secret Power: Omnipresent Oversight
Automated Collection
- Report Easily and On Time: Online web reporting makes it easy for grantees to submit reports and meet reporting deadlines. Consistent data collection ensures easy reporting up the chain.
- Monitor Progress: Online progress reports are scheduled automatically for every grant. Automatic alerts and reminders prompt grantees to submit reports.
- Eliminate Delinquency: Notices alert grantees to compliance issues. Delinquency reports allow staff to focus on compliance offenders.
Arch Enemy: Fragmented Communication
Secret Power: Telepathy
Virtual Communication Module
- Talk Fast: Communications tools enable easy communication with all stakeholders when action is needed.
- Talk to Everyone: Mass communication tools for applicants, grantees and reviewers keeps all constituents informed.
- Talk Efficiently: Online status provides automatic updates to applicants eliminating phone calls and staff overload.
- Talk about Progress: Application validation screens communicate progress and detail remaining work for application submission.
- Talk to the Top: Correspondence tracking enables easy communication to grantee and organization officials and tracks responses for accountability.