Blog & Insights

Field notes on grants management, the Microsoft platform, and what it takes to run public-sector programs well.

Unifying Your Environmental Grant Data with Microsoft Dynamics 365

Managing diverse funding streams for conservation projects often leads to fragmented data. Learn how the Microsoft Power Platform helps you centralize your workflow and save hours of manual entry.

Sep 2, 20266 min read

Grants Management

Build a Custom Grant Portal for Your Literacy Program with Power Apps

Tired of tracking applicant documents through messy email threads. Learn how to use Microsoft Power Apps to create a simple, self-service portal that keeps your workforce training applications organized and accessible.

Aug 26, 20265 min read

Industry Insight

Streamlining Your Grant Intake Process with Dynamics 365 and Power Platform

Stop manually sorting through hundreds of email applications. Learn how to use Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to automate your intake and screening process today.

Aug 19, 20266 min read

Industry Insight

Streamlining Grant Budgets for Arts Nonprofits with Dynamics 365

Managing arts grants often involves messy spreadsheets and manual data entry. Learn how Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform simplify budget tracking and financial reconciliation for your team.

Aug 12, 20265 min read

Grants Management

Automating Grant Intake and Eligibility Checks for Housing Authorities

Grant managers at housing authorities spend countless hours reviewing applications that do not meet basic requirements. Learn how Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform can automate this process to save you time.

Aug 5, 20266 min read

Grants Management

Ditch the Paper Trail: Digitizing Your Grant Lifecycle with Dynamics 365

Is your remote team buried under spreadsheets and physical grant files? Learn how Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform can move your community development mission from paper-based chaos to seamless digital collaboration.

Jul 29, 20266 min read

Grants Management

Drowning in Spreadsheets? How to Finally Automate Subrecipient Monitoring

For health and wellness nonprofits, subrecipient compliance often feels like a constant game of catch-up. Discover how Microsoft Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform can turn your scattered tracking into a streamlined, automated workflow.

Jul 23, 20266 min read

Industry Insight

From Filing Cabinets to Cloud: Modernizing State Workforce Grant Programs

Is your workforce agency still drowning in paper grant applications? Discover how Dynamics 365 and the Power Platform can move your team from physical stacks to a seamless, digital remote-first workflow.

Jul 23, 20266 min read

Industry Insight

Grant lifecycle stages: from intake to close

Every grant program moves through the same sequence of stages — from publishing a funding opportunity to final closeout. Understanding each stage and its administrative requirements is the foundation for running programs that are both effective and audit-ready.

Mar 18, 20266 min read

Industry Insight

What Reimbursement Cycle Time Really Costs Your Program

A 157-day reimbursement backlog isn't just slow, it's expensive, demoralizing, and a leading indicator of deeper process failure. Here's how to think about the real cost.

Feb 18, 20264 min read

Microsoft Platform

Building Audit-Ready Workflows on the Microsoft Power Platform

Audit-ready isn't a setting you toggle on. It's a property of how you structure your data, your approvals, and your change history from day one on Dataverse.

Feb 2, 20265 min read

Industry Insight

Uniform Guidance compliance for grant administrators

2 CFR Part 200 — Uniform Guidance — sets the compliance framework for every federal grant. Here's what grant administrators need to understand about its requirements, and where agencies most commonly fall short.

Jan 21, 20266 min read

Grants Management

Why Most Grants Management Software Fails Program Officers

Off-the-shelf grant tools are built for finance, not for the people running the program. Here's where they break down, and what changes when you build from the program officer's seat.

Jan 14, 20266 min read

Industry Insight

What is a grants management system?

A grants management system is purpose-built software that tracks every stage of the grant lifecycle — from application intake through closeout and audit. Here's what it does, who needs one, and what separates a real GMS from a spreadsheet with ambitions.

Jan 7, 20267 min read