Hi Dan,
Hey, it's funny you should ask!
I agree with Gavin, this sounds like a grants management system, and we just happen to be publishing today, along with our partner Solpath, a gigantic report - "A Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems."
This 89-page report provides a rundown of common features and overviews of eighteen systems used by grantmakers to track outgoing funds, as well as detailed reviews, prices, and a comparison chart of nine of the software packages most widely used by grantmakers. So that might come in handy. Register and download the free report on our partner Solpath's site, at
http://www.solpath.org/reports
For your needs, you might take a look at Foundant or CyberGrants - both less expensive, web-based options in the $2-5K per year realm. Beyond these two, you might well be talking $15K-25K or up (as Gavin mentions, the prices aren't as friendly as one might hope). Nothing in your list sounded particularly unusual for a grants management system, but you might check to see if they're paying they same folks that are applying (the scholars), or if they're paying universities directly - if so, that's a more complex requirement and might rule out at least Foundant.
Hope that's helpful - and please, anyone feel free please pass the word about the report to grantmakers who might be interested.
Laura
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Laura S. Quinn
Idealware
Candid Information about Nonprofit Software
www.idealware.org
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>>Thank you. Grant application systems were definitely on the list to review, since while not a foundation they are distributing foundation money, so thank you for this lead. Its been many years since I reviewed most of the prime players in the field, and helped implement one of the systems, so it will be good to get reacquainted. Thanks for the warning on the pricing. Another client of mine recently reviewed systems and came back to me with figures that surprised even me given their low volume of grants. >>
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