Grantsfire Revolutionizes Grant Reporting

San Francisco, CA (PRWEB) March 25, 2009

Grantsfire, a project of Solpath, has received a $ 150,000 grant from The Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to support the development and promotion of Grantsfire, a web-based system that aggregates and publishes grants information using Web 2.0 tools and technology.

Outreach

“Grantsfire’s success depends on the participation of grantmakers themselves. We hope to generate as much support for this project and establish as many partnerships throughout the nonprofit and philanthropic community as possible,” says Jason Ricci, Solpath’s Executive Director.

Over the next 90 days, Solpath will embark on an extensive outreach campaign to the grantmaking community to encourage participation in the Grantsfire project. By leveraging multiple online communications channels, Grantsfire seeks participants interested in publishing their grants information utilizing the innovative, standardized and simple hgrant format.

Grantsfire will change the way grants are reported and how fundraising research is conducted. Using web 2.0 principles of openness, interoperability, and collaboration, Grantsfire will make grants information available to anyone through a search engine at http://grantsfire.org and APIs that will allow anyone to build mashups using Grantsfire data.

Web 2.0 principles have already transformed the technology sector. By applying these same principles to how foundations track and report their grants, Grantsfire aims to help nonprofits fundraise more efficiently in a time when funds are fewer and needs are greater. Grantsfire will ultimately reduce costs while increasing the timeliness and accessibility of grants data collection.

About Grantsfire

Grantsfire (http://www.grantsfire.org) makes up-to-date information on philanthropic grants widely and easily accessible through a network-centric strategy. Grantsfire pulls recently published grants information from foundation website feeds according to a simple unified standard called hgrant. Grants data is pooled, and the collective data is then searchable and publishable by key words and other sort criteria. Ultimately, Grantsfire will bring down costs and increase the timeliness and accessibility of grants data collection.

About Solpath

Solpath (http://www.solpath.org) is an organization created specifically to develop solutions that improve foundation grants management processes and software systems. Solpath is a nonprofit organization based in San Francisco, California.

Grantsfire Revolutionizes Grant Reporting

Active Web Group, Inc. Initiates Google Grant for Non-Profit Angelas House

Hauppauge, NY (PRWEB) September 28, 2012

Active Web Group, Inc. (AWG), a leading Internet marketing company headquartered in Hauppauge, New York, today announced that its client Angelas House (angelashouse.org) has been accepted into Googles grants program for non-profit agencies. For over 20 years, Angelas House has assisted families to care for their medically frail children who may live with their parents or in special homes that offer 24 hour nursing support. The initial grant is scalable and will be used to contact and engage the agencys supporters and donors through Googles AdWords online advertising.

Active Web values and is committed to our clients. We strive to find ways to enable them to grow their online businesses, states Pat Norton, Vice President and Director of Business Development, Active Web Group, Inc. Recently while attending a seminar, an AWG staffer saw the opportunity to assist Angelas House in its fundraising initiatives by applying for a Google grant, he notes. Once the Company had secured the non-profits permission, AWG guided them through the tedious application process. The first hurdle involved clearance by Googles Not for Profit foundation, then the Google Grants (the nonprofit edition of AdWords, Googles online advertising tool) panel reviewed the non-profits application. Upon their consideration, Angelas House soon received a scalable grant which is awarded and designated to promote their mission and initiatives on Google.com.

Active Web realized the leverage this grant would provide our client allowing them to reach donors, volunteers and others when they are searching on Google, Norton explains. This way Angelas House can further raise awareness for their worthy cause by selecting relevant keywords and creating unique advertising to highlight and promote their charity, he adds.

Other features of the AdWords grant include the ability to track online donations, newsletter sign-ups and volunteer registrations thereby both tracking and streamlining this administrative process. Essentially, Google is enabling the expansion of Angelas House mission to provide for the needs of medically fragile children and their families on Long Island. Active Web is very proud to assist them to expand their donor, volunteer and fundraising base through this award, Norton concludes.

Active Web Group, Inc. Initiates Google Grant for Non-Profit Angelas House