The Non-Disaster Grants Management System (ND Grants) is a web-based system intended to provide the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its stakeholders with a system that supports the grants management lifecycle.
ND Grants represents a multi-year effort by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), FEMA Grant Programs Directorate (GPD) and the FEMA Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO). GPD is committed to providing an effective system that is collaboratively developed, provides user-friendly workflow, and supports FEMA with mission-critical activities.
Functionality
The system is being implemented via phased approach where system functionality is released to coincide with stakeholders need for the functionality.
ND Grants includes all the functionality of the current grants management systems and offers new functionality. Below is a summary of the new functionality:
- Organization Management and Task Assignment Services
- Application Submission
- Award Review and Acceptance
- Amendment Submission
- Performance Reports Submission
- Mail Center
What are the System Benefits?
During the development of ND Grants, GPD gathered input, best practices, and lessons learned from FEMA grantors and grantees, as well as other external FEMA grant stakeholders. ND Grants will offer grantors and grantees the following benefits:
Internal Grantor Users
- Provide a user friendly interface that clearly highlights pending actions
- Automate and standardize processes to manage the grants management lifecycle while allowing program specific functionality
- Improve integration with key systems, such as Grants.gov, to automatically retrieve and share grant application data
Grantees
- Provide a user friendly interface that clearly highlights pending actions
- Reduce the burden of application completion by pulling in and pre-populating applications with grantee’s Grants.gov submission
- Provide quicker acknowledgements of receipt of application materials and other relevant documents
User Resources
The following supplemental guidance is available to provide grantees and users with information on registering and using the Non-Disaster Grants System.
Preparedness (Non-Disaster) Grants
- Emergency Management Performance Grants (EMPG) Program
- Homeland Security Grant Program (HSGP)
- Intercity Bus Security Grant Program (IBSGP)
- Intercity Passenger Rail (IPR) - Amtrak
- Nonprofit Security Grant Program (NSGP)
- Port Security Grant Program (PSGP)
- Tribal Homeland Security Grant Program (THSGP)
- Transit Security Grant Program (TSGP)
Service Desk
If you need help using the ND Grants System, please contact the ND Grants Service Desk at 1-800-865-4076 or NDGrants@fema.dhs.gov. If you have programmatic or grants management questions, please contact your Program Analyst or Grants Specialist.