Cayuse Inc., a small company based in Portland, Ore., (www.cayuse.com), created a software program called GrantSlam in the mid-1990s to reduce the grant writer's workload. The company recently updated the program by transferring it from a Form Flow (produced by Jetform) to a FileMaker database platform and adding other innovations. The newest version, 4.1, released this spring with 4.0 bugs repaired, includes graphical icons and colorful boxes. It copies and calculates data across sections and self-saves the proposal for use with future drafts.
According to one user, without using a program like GrantSlam, it's easy to make mistakes on the application, and once that happens, related pages have to be readjusted. The GrantSlam program automatically adjusts the related entries. The table of contents--a particularly trying because it is completed last--is generated automatically as the writer fills out other forms, says Brian Davis, associate professor of anatomy and neural biology at ...
