by Roxana Rosu | Dec 18, 2024 | Article
We’re proud to announce that Good Grants has been successfully recertified to the latest ISO/IEC 27001:2022 standard and has also passed the Cyber Essentials assessment. These achievements underline our continued commitment to implementing the highest standards of cybersecurity, ensuring robust protection of client data.
Additionally, we launched our new Trust Centre, a dedicated hub for transparency and trust, where anyone can request detailed information about our security practices and compliance efforts.
Over the last year, we implemented 19 new features and made 127 product enhancements to help you work more efficiently.
Here’s a look back at some of our new features and improvements in 2024, and how you can use them in your grantmaking.
In 2024, Good Grants introduced a host of new features, each aimed at improving usability and efficiency.
We prioritised automating and simplifying tasks for grant managers and reviewers, and these features below help grant managers focus on strategic decision-making rather than administrative tasks, ultimately leading to more effective and efficient grant distribution.
This powerful new feature, available for Enterprise accounts, provides a secure method for individual applicants and grantees to work together in real time on a single application or grant report, without sharing login details. Read more.
Read more about the Good Grants integration marketplace
For organisations requiring multiple Good Grants accounts, the owner can now copy configuration across accounts. This feature eliminates the need for manual account configuration during setup and minimises the risk of errors, ensuring a smoother and more reliable process.
Automated tagging is now available for optionable fields in action flow and in applications with checkbox lists, radio fields, and dropdown fields.
Automated tagging can be particularly useful for categorising applications based on specific criteria, and can streamline the review process by automatically assigning tags to indicate priority levels or areas of focus.
Additionally, grant managers can use auto-tagging to quickly filter and organise applications for reporting and analysis purposes.
Program managers can now set minimum and maximum video length in seconds for all supported file types for both single file uploads and attachments. Video length settings are particularly important for managing limited review time, as it helps reviewers efficiently evaluate content without being overwhelmed by lengthy videos. Additionally, setting video length limits can ensure consistency across applications, making it easier for reviewers to compare submissions fairly.
Learn more about Good Grants’ high definition video streaming feature
In 2024, we continued to expand the Good Grants API with several new updates:
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Use the action overflow menu and save significant time and effort when managing multiple programs.
Automate reference collection using the Referee tab, ensuring timely contact with referees and prompt submission of essential details. Collect all necessary references before the deadline, allowing for quicker and more efficient application evaluations.
Learn more about all application form tab types in Good Grants
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Reviewers are loving the new “Show my votes only” toggle! This useful feature makes it easy to track and manage their selections, and it’s already been used over 45,000 times.
There are now five new ways to launch a new review stage. Applicants can now initiate an Action flow process to contact referees or grant managers before submitting their application. A review stage can now be launched by: manually by the grant manager, during application submission, through another review stage, through API, or by the applicant.
The reviewing comment box can now be turned on for individual scoring criteria, powering reviewers to see only specific comment boxes when needed and allowing reviewers to tailor their feedback process.
Learn more about the Good Grants’ review suite
This year, we added Malay and Catalan languages, bringing our total number of natively translated languages to 36 to help enhance global communication and allow users from diverse linguistic backgrounds to engage with the platform seamlessly.
View the full list of supported languages
To help grant managers keep better track of notifications, a description field for notifications has been added to allow grant managers to add detailed notes about each notification, making it easier to understand the context and urgency of each message.
Learn more about Good Grants’ communication options
Grant managers can now access recent product updates, new features and important announcements from the Updates centre in Good Grants.
This year, we added Hong Kong as our newest data residency option, in addition to our existing options in Australia, Canada, the European Union and the United States.
Learn more about Good Grants’ data residency options
Looking ahead, we’re preparing to introduce even more transformative updates to Good Grants. Here’s a glimpse of what’s on the horizon:
Ensure data remains unchanged and accurate for reviewing and auditing purposes. This feature will help prevent unauthorised modifications and help maintain the integrity of the information provided.
Formalise the relationship between users and their associated organisations, empowering you as the grant manager to administer funding, applications, and reporting at an organisational level.
Automatically create captions for uploaded videos. Once enabled, captions will be generated during the video upload process and can be turned on or off in the video player, making it easy to enhance accessibility without modifying the original video.
We’re proud of the achievements and innovations that have improved the effectiveness of Good Grants. From simplifying workflows to introducing powerful review tools and expanding accessibility for global users, every new feature was designed with your success in mind.
As we step into 2025, our focus remains on building features that empower you to create meaningful impact around the world. Thank you for choosing Good Grants as your trusted partner—we’re excited to continue this journey with you in the year ahead!
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