Charlie -

I like Fastlane better because,

1.)  I don't have to re-enter my AOR information everything I submit a proposal.

2.)  I don't have to re-enter all the PI information everytime.

3.)  Fastlane pulls the information on budgets and such together better.

4.)  As someone else mentioned multiple people can work at once, which in quite a few cases at my previous institution was the ONLY reason we met a deadline, especially when Fastlane used to be as slow as grants.gov can be.

5.)  Fastlane is pretty darn intuitive.  I started working in Fastlane with very little (read no) training, and no special software.  I suspect a freshman in college generally has the skills to upload to Fastlane.

Grants.gov is getting better, and it is much less painful once you know how to use it, but the learning curve has been pretty steep.  Also without buy-in, and with so many differing tweaks on teh application, the only part that I feel is truly standard, is the 424, which is full of info that Fastlane knows for me.

Basically, I can upload and submit somewhere around four Fastlane proposals in one day from scratch, but I find that is much more difficult to do with grants.gov.

Thanks for collecting these!
Trish Brock
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Grants Analyst
Grants Development Office
Cal Poly
Bldg 38, Room 152
805-756-1450
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Charlie Hathaway" <xxxxxx@AECOM.YU.EDU>
To: xxxxxx@hrinet.org
Sent: Thursday, June 4, 2009 8:19:13 AM GMT -08:00 US/Canada Pacific
Subject: [RESADM-L] Grants.gov vs Fastlane

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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