Grant Searching Made Easy: Mastering Keywords on Grants.gov

Unlock the full potential of Grants.gov and discover the perfect grant opportunity for your organization. Use these essential search tips and tricks to navigate the vast landscape of funding opportunities offered on Grants.gov.

You Can Help Fight Fraudulent Activity

Safeguarding Federal funds and maintaining a secure cyber environment is of the utmost importance to awarding agencies. Recipients are a crucial part of safeguarding funds. Security is everyone’s responsibility, and an effective cyber security strategy helps prevent and identify fraud. Your diligence is key. We encourage you to share this information within your organization.

A Quick Guide to Importing Grants.gov Data into MS Excel with an XML Extract

Grants.gov has been undergoing a series of changes to improve the overall user experience. Some functionalities may be temporarily unavailable following our October release. Our team is working to re-establish these functionalities as quickly as possible.

If you’ve been relying on the “Export Detailed Data” functionality and found it temporarily unavailable, you can still get what you need into a spreadsheet software. In this blog post, we’ll walk you through the essential steps to extract and load an XML (Extensible Markup Language) extract of Grants.gov data into MS Excel, so that you can obtain the data you need in the meantime. This process may vary slightly depending on your specific version of Excel, but the general steps should remain consistent. Other data tools may have similar XML import features.

Upcoming Releases: Improving Your Grants.gov Experience

This blog post was originally published on November 1, 2023, and updated on February 1, 2024. The updates reflect progress made in the recent releases and the schedule based on user feedback.

Grants.gov now has a new look and improved features! Following the recent maintenance period, Grants.gov now provides an intuitive and responsive user experience aligned with United States Web Design System (USWDS) standards.

While our October release brought you a new look and feel, we are aware that some features still need attention. To address these issues and make your experience even better, we will be rolling out a series of releases over the next few months.

Experience the Improved Grants.gov!

The Grants.gov web interface will be improved to provide a more intuitive and responsive user experience with upgraded security and enhanced navigation. The website will align with the United States Web Design System (USWDS), a federal standard to provide accessible and mobile-friendly websites to all users. It will be clearly identified as an official U.S. government website with a banner at the top denoting it as such. While Grants.gov content will remain the same, it will feel more user-friendly, fresh, and modern.

Grant, the Grants.gov Chatbot, can help you find the answers you need.

Grants.gov always looks for new ways to serve its users and improve their experience. In 2020, Grants.gov implemented a new self-service help tool – Grant, the Grants.gov chatbot. Recently, a new and improved version of the chatbot was implemented with revisions based on user feedback. You are invited to test it out and provide feedback we will use to develop the next version.

Unlock the Mystery of the Gray “Apply” Button: Four Scenarios.

Have you ever encountered a situation on Grants.gov when the “Apply” button is grayed out and unresponsive for a funding opportunity? If so, you need to know how to ensure you’re able to apply for funding opportunities. This blog post summarizes why the “Apply” button may be grayed out and offers guidance for when this occurs.

How to Manage Your Passwords in Grants.gov

As an applicant using Grants.gov, it’s crucial you manage your Grants.gov and Login.gov passwords effectively. In this blog post, we provide tips and advice on keeping your account secure, using and resetting your passwords, and using your password to log into the Grants.gov mobile application and website.

Improvements to EBiz account management

Beginning January 21, 2023, the registration and authentication process for the EBiz POC (Electronic Business Point of Contact) will change, improving the user experience. The enhancement will improve account security with multi-factor authentication and eliminate the need for some EBiz POCs to have two accounts.

What to Expect During the Grants.gov Cloud Migration and Extended Downtime for September 2022

Grants.gov is being migrated to the cloud. To ensure a smooth and successful transition, an extended period of downtime has been scheduled for Grants.gov.

Although the transition is expected to be completely seamless to applicants, we have compiled the following Q&A to address the primary questions and concerns of applicants regarding the migration.