Get Involved

Learn more about the ways you can get involved with this initiative

Contribute

Your contribution will help make the Simpler Grants.gov experience better for everyone.

Our Vision

The Simpler Grants.gov product vision is to revolutionize the federal grant-making experience by providing an accessible and user-friendly platform that streamlines the entire process, from opportunity discovery to application to post-award reporting.

Our Goal

We aim to empower applicants and partners by implementing an open-source, API-first strategy for Grants.gov, enabling personalized experiences, data accessibility, and seamless integration with third-party tools.

Why Open Source?

At Simpler Grants.gov, we are committed to transparency and collaboration. We embrace open source practices to ensure that all our software tools are accessible for public observation, input, and reuse.

We firmly believe that the most effective solutions are crafted through open collaboration. We are eager to engage with a diverse community of grant-making professionals, applicants, and technology enthusiasts. Your feedback and contributions are not only welcome but integral to our mission. Together, we can simplify the grant-making process and make it more accessible to everyone.

Who we are looking for

• Contribute to coding/development

• Contribute to feedback and discussion

• Join the conversation across our wiki, chat and frequent meetings to learn more.

How to participate

Interested in...	How to Get Involved
Introduction to the Open-Source Group	Join our Google group: Google Group
Office hours	Zoom: Office Hours Come to an office hours session if you want to learn more about how to contribute to the project, discuss issues in GitHub, pair through a GitHub issue, or get help setting up your environment.
Providing Coding/ Development Support	Contribute code to GitHub - Contributing Guidelines Open "Help Wanted" Issues: GitHub Issues
Participating in discussions	Join our Slack to have access to real time discussions on Simpler Grants.gov information. Provide your perspective as we grow and develop this community together.

Technical Contributions

The Simpler Grants community is always searching for open source developers to contribute to the project. Below you will find information about our GitHub and how you can get involved with contributing to Simpler Grants.

Technical Contributions

Community Contributions

The Simpler Grants community also hosts ongoing office hours, meetings and other various events on Zoom. Please feel free to join and share your knowledge or learn more about what we do.

Community Contributions

Policies

Questions about our policies and guidelines? Read through here prior to contributing to understand the bylaws that our community agrees to follow.

Policies and guidelines

Ready to Join?

Follow our onboarding checklist to make sure that you are ready and have all the tools that Simpler Grants uses set up. This will help to be successful as a new contributor to the project.

Public Onboarding checklist

Change log

Major updates to the content of this page will be added here.

Date	Update	Notes
1/30/2024	Rough Draft	Initial rough draft of content for welcome page
2/5/2024	Rough Draft Updated	Updated Get Involved based on feedback