search

massgov / feature-requests

Prioritization for feature requests for the Mass.gov project.
10 stars 8 forks source link

New content type - Grants #191

Open lynnek87 opened 5 years ago

lynnek87 commented 5 years ago

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. In trying to aggregate Grants offered by the Commonwealth, especially to Municipalities, I noticed this content is all over the place and not all content comes up with search.

Describe the solution you'd like I would like a new template created specifically for grants. Some of the larger agencies offering Grants would need to be consulted to create common fields. Eligible applicants would be a required field, which would make grants searchable not just by munis, but by any type of applicant. Deadlines would also be a required field. One coming up could be featured and ones past could be automatically removed or modified to tell the user the deadline has passed for this year. Subject could also be a required field. All of these would aid in the searching of grants for any subject and for specific applicants.

Additional context A microsite may also be a solution. I like the federal site, Grants.gov.

Reference

joeg8612 commented 2 years ago

Please keep an eye out for the new "Collections" feature which might help with pulling all grants together in a searchable way. It will not give them a unique template however.

joeg8612 commented 1 year ago

Collections functionality has been released. We suggest you try it to aggregate grants. Given the differences in needs across agencies, we are not able to create a specific template for grants.