‘Real-Time’ Grant Updates Offered

Grantsfire, an online service designed to capture and publish up-to-date information on grants, will soon become a project of the Foundation Center.

The system pulls information about recently awarded grants from foundations’ Web sites or direct feeds using a simple unified standard called hGrant.

It was created with money from the Community Technology Foundation of California and the Charles Stewart Mott and William and Flora Hewlett foundations.

“The Grantsfire technology gets us one step closer to having real-time grants information,” Bradford Smith, president of the Foundation Center, said in a written statement. “This is central to our longstanding mission of increasing transparency so that people can see exactly what foundations are doing on the issues about which they care most.”

For more information: Go to http://www.grantsfire.org.