CommunityForce vs InfoEd Global

CommunityForce is a web-based awards management platform for grants, scholarships, fellowships, and research funding. It supports programs from funding discovery and applications through review, awards, disbursement, compliance, reporting, and closeout. Application tools include conditional forms, eligibility screening, shared applications across opportunities, and applicant dashboards. Reviewers can collaborate using scoring and rubrics, while administrators can manage bulk awards, renewals, and post-award requirements. Phoenix searches Grants.gov, IRS Form 990 filings, and a curated list for opportunities matching an organisation’s funding profile. Its AI features can summarize applications, suggest reviewer scores, flag AI-written essays, and answer questions using live platform data. The platform provides ad hoc reports, dashboards, exports, and embedded Microsoft Power BI dashboards. Integrations include Salesforce, DocuSign, Stripe, Twilio, SendGrid, SMTP email, and Google Translate. The company says each organisation has a separate database and file storage in a private Microsoft Azure environment. It states that it is FedRAMP certified and SOC 2 Type II, and supports Section 508, FERPA, and PCI-DSS requirements. Pricing is available on request; the product pages direct prospective buyers to request a demo or speak with an expert.

InfoEd Global provides research administration software for institutions, universities, and corporations. Its suite covers SPIN Global Suite, Research Compliance, Animal Facilities, Technology Transfer, Grants & Contracts, Clinical Trials, and Research Outputs; the company describes more than 20 integrated modules that share information. Grants & Contracts supports proposal development, pre-award and post-award workflows, financial tracking, and reporting. SPIN lists more than 40,000 funding opportunities from over 10,000 sponsors, with editorial staff maintaining and quality-checking the data. Users can save searches, bookmark opportunities, and receive SMARTS email notifications. The web-based Proposal Development module supports simultaneous collaboration and system-to-system submissions for agencies and forms that accept Grants.gov applications. InfoEd offers local or SaaS deployment, with a highly available multi-host configuration available for either. Browser access is designed for mainstream browsers with virtually no client workstation requirements. Security controls are configurable and granular, with report access restricted according to user security. Pricing is on request; InfoEd offers training, rollout planning, data conversions, technical services, integrations, testing, and consulting.