History

The Origins of GrantSelect

GrantSelect has its roots in academic research. Back in 1973, the founder of Oryx Press, a Phoenix-based information publisher, purchased the card file from an academic research administrator in New York. The card file contained information on post graduate research and demonstration grants and was then converted into a magnetic tape database. From the database a monthly series of faculty bulletins were generated in various subject areas for college and university grants offices. A year later, a hardcover annual volume, Directory of Research Grants, was produced from the same database for sale to libraries. And a year after that, the GRANTS file went online.

By 2006, Greenwood decided to discontinue the online service of GrantSelect and was ready to shut its electronic doors on the database. However Schoolhouse Partners, an education and grants consulting firm in Central Indiana, acquired GrantSelect from Greenwood Publishing. The database has returned to its grassroots and continues to offer a broad range of grant opportunties for academic research as well as community projects.

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Driven by a single question: "How do I find grants?" GrantSelect embarked on a mission to discover funding opportunities for all types of projects and programs, and to provide a platform to empower nonprofit organizations, academic research and small businesses all over the globe.