Grants Management

RATING:

4.6

(14)

About Grants Management

CommunityForce, Inc. is a global technology company that offers a full range of service modules including scholarship management and grants management to manage the business operations of philanthropic organizations, educational institutions, and other nonprofit organizations. We leverage the power of next-generation data capture and business intelligence in a fully automated platform to help you break down the complex task of grants management without the need for time-consuming and costly development. Our Application Life-Cycle Management software manages and integrates the processes you need from intake, review, awarding, and post awarding for a holistic and comprehensive view - empowering your organization to make faster and well-informed decisions. Automate most ...

Grants Management Pricing

We encourage you to talk to us about how our competitive pricing can meet your business needs. Our software is the easiest and most configurable in the market with core, premium, and enterprise plan levels available. For more information, please visit https://www.communityforce.com/request-for-pricing/

Starting price: 

$3,000.00 per year

Free trial: 

Available

Free version: 

Not Available

Grant Management Software by CommunityForce
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Grants Management Reviews

Overall Rating

4.6

Ratings Breakdown

Secondary Ratings

Ease-of-use

4.5

Customer Support

5

Value for money

5

Functionality

4.5

Most Helpful Reviews for Grants Management

1 - 5 of 13 Reviews

Kathy

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed May 2017

Grants United took a very complex onboarding process for one of our programs and gave me flexibilty.

Flexibility and easy customization to our needs, with a few clever clicks we were also able to use it for project management

PROS

The flexibility and intuitive nature of the process of building multiple applications. I am able to build applications for the many programs we have and customize them to our needs, both front end on the application and back end in staff only sections. The post acceptance sections give me the ability to continue my relationship with the grantee beyond the award. I can have progress reports and final reports that allow me, through conditional logic, to gather what i need for reporting to our funders.

CONS

I wish there were a way to have separate landing pages for separate programs. I also wish I could clone reports from grant round to grant round.

Vendor Response

Thank you for the positive review Kathy! We love to hear about how our platform is helping our customers. As for having separate landing pages, each grant application has their own URL link which you could advertise as a "separate" landing page. That may be what you are looking for but if not ,our development team is always accepting requests for improvement. By listening to our clients, that is the only way to make sure our product meets the needs for all grant-makers. please submit your all requests on your zendesk portal. Thank you

Replied July 2017

Wendy

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used daily for more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed June 2022

United Way Grant Management

PROS

This software is easy to use and train multiple volunteers on with various technology skill sets. Our applicants and reviewers both like this software and it's very rare we hear any complaints.

CONS

None I can think of at this time.

Reason for choosing Grants Management

CommunityForce allowed us to consider a multi-county approach to our grant process. We allow other United Ways to join our system as department admins. They are in full control of their own grants and reports autonomous from ours but the applicants have one central log in. We also find this software very affordable for small & mid-sized United Ways.

Jamie

Philanthropy, 2-10 employees

Used daily for less than 6 months

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by the software vendor to submit an honest review.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

3

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

4

Reviewed October 2019

Great Tool for Philanthropy

I can't imagine how much more time consuming it would be to manage our grants and scholarships without this software.

PROS

One software for applicants and reviewers with the ability to manage, monitor and track the entire process efficiently. The ability to export to excel is extremely helpful and time efficient and calculation of reviewers scores is great.

CONS

Without the appropriate implementation and training it is difficult to capitalize on the full potential of the software. The training manual covers the basics but doesn't have a lot of depth for more complex situations, however our Client Success Manager, has proven extremely helpful in these circumstances.

Theresa

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This reviewer was invited by us to submit an honest review and offered a nominal incentive as a thank you.

OVERALL RATING:

4

EASE OF USE

4

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

3

Reviewed May 2018

Overall it is a good program and meets our needs. We have used this software for 4 years.

It is user friendly. We like having multiple year data on our agency applications. Our reveiwers can access it anywhere internet is available.

PROS

We like the section icons in setting up the applications. It is easy to follow. We like the % of completion in each section. It is easy to duplicate an application from year to year. The ability to transfer information from prior applications is helpful. We like that we can create reports from any field but we don't like only downloading into MS Excel.

CONS

The ability to develop easy reports. Wish there were report templates build into the system. Just downloading to MS Excel isn't very user friendly. We would like to be able to print some nice reports from the system. It takes a lot of staff time to make the MS Excel reports in a concise format. For reviewers the scoring rubic and application scrolls separately. We didn't find the new enhancement of the reviewers seeing each other's comments very helpful in the current format.

Diane

Non-Profit Organization Management, 2-10 employees

Used more than 2 years

Review Source: Capterra
This review was submitted organically. No incentive was offered

OVERALL RATING:

5

EASE OF USE

5

VALUE FOR MONEY

5

CUSTOMER SUPPORT

5

FUNCTIONALITY

5

Reviewed February 2021

Management of grants has been streamlined

Their customer service is very responsive on all questions and problems we ask of them. They also keep us updated on all new upgrades and occasionally ask if we have any needs that are not being met.

PROS

All information is available 24/7 and in one place. Training was online and easy to follow.

CONS

Initial set-up. Was not bad though, we paid them to do the initial set-up of the application and then just had to do training of how to use.

Reason for choosing Grants Management

Ease of use and price