Back to main Grant Streamlining page Post Your State's Grant Annoucements to Grants.gov The federal government would now like to expand the information offered on Grants.gov to include the grant opportunity information from States, Foundations and Associations who provide aid to the grant community. This is a chance for us to provide a safe and secure location for the grant community to search, for free, across the federal government, state governments, and independent foundations and associations. If your organization would be interested in posting your grant opportunities on Grants.gov, please contact Katie Root at Grants.gov. You can either email (katie.root@hhs.gov) or call 202-205-1154. The process to post grant opportunities is simple and easy to do. The Grants.gov staff will walk you through the process and set-up your user profile. The website is on a constant iteration process and your feedback as a user will help us to refine how the information is presented to the public. Please consider posting your organization’s grant opportunities on Grants.gov. By supporting this website, we will help to make accessing grant information easier for the grant community. States Working to Streamline Their Grants System Several states are working on streamlining their grants process, and are communicating with federal officials with the goal of making all government grant procedure as uniform as possible. Results of a survey detailing state efforts were shown during the March meeting of the federal Inter-Agency of Electronic Grants Committee. (Many states did not respond to the survey, so if you know of efforts that are not list here please contact Kay Guinane at kguinane@ombwatch.org.) During the October meeting, many nonprofits and state agents came to represent their state and provide feedback on their efforts to streamline their grants systems. Today, state agents and nonprofit leaders are stregthening their relationships with the federal government in effort to streamline all aspects of grants management on both the federal and state level.

• Overall state action exists within the Uniform Guidelines Project, which is co-sponsored by the Urban Institute Nonprofit Network; National Association of the State Auditors, Comptrollers, & Treasurers; Interstate and Nonprofit Advisory Group/IAEGC; Greater Washington Society of CPAs; and National Council of Nonprofit Associations, has worked to establish uniform guidelines for budgeting, accounting, financial reporting, and auditing for not-for-profit recipients of grant funds from Federal, state, and local government, plus foundations, and other non-governmental organizations. Once drafted, the guidelines will be written up as a policy proposal and given to every state and local government in the country. The group will also submit a copy of the proposal to the Office of Management and Budget for their consideration of adoption.
• Michigan Nonprofit Association and Michigan Office of Financial Management are working together to streamline and simplify the entire granting process. Together they have developed an advisory committee compromised of representatives from the nonprofit community (chief financial officers and executive directors), state agency personnel (accounting and grants management staff) and private accountants. The committee has already meant once and will most likely meet quarterly.
• The State of Tennessee Comptroller of the Treasury’s Department of Audit put out requirements on accounting and financial reporting for not-for-profit recipients of grant funds in Tennessee. The Department of Audit replaced the 1987 Edition of the Accounting Manual for Recipients of Grant Funds in Tennessee.
• California has a searchable database for State Stage Grants and Loans but no current effort to develop an E-Apply System. District of Columbia posts notices of funding availability to a Grants Clearinghouse Site and has a printable version. Additionally, the district's clearinghouse site will be linked to the Federal one-stop system, Grants.gov. DC is initiating a workgroup to explore a district-wide one-stop system.
• Kentucky has an electronic system scheduled to go on-line May 1, 2003. The key components consist of a Universal Application meeting the requirements of State/Federal Agencies; System links to both the Funding Agency and the State Clearinghouse.
• Maine has electronic access to funding opportunities and application materials are available on-line but no one-stop system in place.
• Mississippi currently has a few state applications on-line but does not have a one-stop E-Grants system in place.
• Nevada has the desire to have a system, but, due to budget constraints, there are no plans for a unified consolidated E-Grants process.
• Pennsylvania has a State-Level system under development. The system’s infrastructure gets its money through a federal agency's funds. The Bureau of Justice Assistance gave approval to the Commonwealth to use program money to encourage and support its Electric Grants Management System in achieving a list of goals. New York’s “find and apply” web site will close in March 2003, due to insufficient financial support.
• Texas legislation that has recently been filed mandating State Agencies to participate in E-Find may not be realized due to budget shortfalls. The E-Find system exists through the State library, but is not mandatory and not all funding agencies are participating."