“Grants.gov is a Federal wide system developed to allow organizations to electronically find and apply for competitive grant opportunities from all Federal grant-making agencies. Grants.gov is the single access point for over 1000 grant programs offered by the 26 Federal grant-making agencies.”

MICROSOFT VISTA AND OFFICE 2007 COMPATIBILITY: Grants.gov is currently incompatible with both the Microsoft (MS) Vista Operating System and the Microsoft (MS) Office 2007 versions of Word, Excel and Power Point. If you attach a file created using MS Office 2007, you will not get an error message when you submit the application, however your entire application will not be able to be processed or accepted at Grants.gov and will not reach the agency.  

VERY IMPORTANT - Grants.gov is currently transitioning  to phase out of PureEdge software to using Adobe Reader 8 1.2 software exclusively for application completion and submission. Meanwhile, you must download the PureEdge Viewer  and Adobe 8.1.2 to open application forms and instructions.