Grant Discovery & Application
Structured grant opportunity tracking from discovery through council approval to application submission — covering Canadian federal (CCBF, ICIP, GICB) and provincial (OCIF, CWWF, OTF) programs with workflow-driven collaboration.
DB Refresh
Reminders
Concurrent Editors
Template Prefill
Purpose-Built for Canadian Municipalities
Purpose & Scope
What this module owns
Clear ownership boundaries prevent duplication and ensure every capability has exactly one authoritative home.
Owns
8Delegated to
6Application workflow stages & approval routing
Deadline reminders & escalations
Program-specific application templates
Public-facing grant announcements
Application package storage & version control
Reusable content blocks (municipal profile)
These capabilities are handled by dedicated modules and consumed via stable API contracts — keeping boundaries clean and ownership unambiguous.
Core Capabilities
What it does
3 capability groups comprising 8 discrete capabilities — each with API surface, business rules, and data ownership.
Searchable catalog of federal and provincial grant programs with eligibility criteria, cost-sharing ratios, intake windows, and deadline tracking.
Searchable Catalog
Search by administering agency, eligible applicants, expenditure categories, amounts, deadlines.
Eligibility Criteria
Eligible and ineligible expenditure categories, max amounts, cost-sharing ratios per program.
Intake Windows
Track intake openings and closings with automated status updates.
Filtering
Filter by infrastructure category, amount range, deadline, and eligibility match.
Centralized calendar with intake openings, LOI/EOI deadlines, full application deadlines, and reporting dates — with automated reminders and Outlook integration.
Centralized Calendar
All grant deadlines in one calendar: intake, LOI, EOI, full application, reporting.
Automated Reminders
Reminders at 60, 30, 14, and 7 days before deadline.
Outlook Integration
Sync deadlines to Outlook/Exchange calendars.
Escalation
Overdue deadlines escalated to department heads and CAO.
Every module owns a single bounded context, exposes stable APIs, and can be composed into any Civic product — that's the architecture that scales.
Krutik Parikh
Creator of Civic
Data Model
Entity Architecture
5 entities with 5 relationships — the authoritative schema for this bounded context.
Entities
Select an entity to explore its fields and relationships
API Surface
Integration Endpoints
11 RESTful endpoints across 7 resource groups — plus 5 domain events for async integration.
/api/v1/grants/programs
List/search grant programs
/api/v1/grants/programs
Add/update grant program
Ecosystem
Products that depend on this module
1 Civic products consume Grant Discovery & Application — making it one of the most critical platform services in the ecosystem.
Technical Specifications
Performance, Compliance & Configuration
Program Database Refresh
Deadline Reminder Delivery
Concurrent Editors
Template Pre-Population
Historical Search
Retention
FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions
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