Hi Charlie -

I find Grants.gov and the NIH Commons workable, but in answer to your question.   FastLane is very user friendly and, in the ten years that I have used it, it has been extremely reliable.   Faculty at Dartmouth who have a choice between Grants.gov and FastLane consistently choose FastLane.   I also appreciate the ability to easily generate Collaborative Proposals for funding directly to separate institutions.

Shea

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I am giving a talk next week and anticipate being asked the question that
was so common several years ago:
"Why didn't they just use a system like Fastlane?"

I know some of the reasons why Fastlane was not a good model for doing ALL
federal grants.  However, being less familiar with Fastlane than I am with
Grants.gov and NIH Commons, could someone tell me some reasons why
Fastlane is currently better or worse to use than S2S to Gg to NIH
Commons?

thanks

Charlie
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Shea McGovern
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