Grantsfire

From BlueOxen

Bringing transparency to foundations by encouraging them to publish their grants information in a searchable form. Specifically, we are developing a microformat called hGrant, and we're pushing widespread adoption of the format. We're also building an aggregator to collect this information and make it searchable.

Grantsfire Home Page

"Grantsfire: Transforming philanthropy through open grants data." A blog post we wrote in April 2010 following news of the Foundation Center acquisition of the project.

Dialog Map (October 8, 2006). Notes from meeting at Community Technology Foundation with Katrin Verclas and Eugene Chan.

Foundation Center -- physical and online resources for foundations, including aggregated grants information

GIFTS -- Grants Management Software

Solpath -- Open Source grants management software

Northern California Grantmakers meeting on January 24, 2007.

Contents 1 hGrants 1.1 Microformats Principles 1.2 Creating Microformats 1.3 Microformats Tools

hGrants

Microformats Principles

• solve a specific problem
• start as simple as possible
• design for humans first, machines second
• reuse building blocks from widely adopted standards
• modularity / embeddability
• enable and encourage decentralized development, content, services

Semantic XHTML design principles

Creating Microformats

Process

From the FAQ

Microformats Tools

Ruby Microformat parser