The American Cancer Society (ACS) has made its electronic
grant application process available for practice at
www.foundationcommons.org between now and January 7, 2000.
After that date, the true application process begins for
the March 2000 American Cancer Society submission
deadline. American Cancer Society, the nation's largest
private, not-for-profit source of funds for scientists
studying cancer, awarded more than $84 million in 1997-98.

T. J. Koerner, Ph.D., Director of Research Information
Management at the American Cancer Society, especially
invites research administrators to test and practice ACS'
electronic grant application process and provide feedback.
Your input will help ACS as it moves toward a complete
electronic submission, review, and notification program.

The practice period will allow Sponsored Programs
personnel to familiarize themselves with the procedures
of Foundation Commons and American Cancer Society as
well as to train researchers as deadlines approach.
Participants can register, download an application, work
on the application offline, and then submit the "test"
application to the American Cancer Society. Research
administrators may register as themselves or as a
researcher in their organization. When the application
is submitted, the American Cancer Society will send an
email confirmation and ask for feedback. Practice
submissions can be repeated as often as necessary.
Administrators may test the system itself or enlist
researchers to give their feedback. Sample application
material can be cut-and-pasted or converted to PDF to
get a real sense of the process. All applications
received through this test period will be purged from
the database after January 7. As always, standard
procedure requires signed approval from the institution
before Foundation Commons sponsors can consider any
grant application.

To participate in the practice period, go to
www.foundationcommons.org, click on the American Cancer
Society logo, click on the "Begin" button and follow
the instructions given. Technical assistance is
available through the web site.

American Cancer Society was the founding member of the
Consortium developing Foundation Commons, designed as a
common site for foundation grant applications. Cystic
Fibrosis Foundation joined soon thereafter and recently
was joined by Alzheimer's Association and Juvenile
Diabetes Foundation. The site is administered by
Research and Management Systems, Inc. (RAMS).

For more information, contact Paul Rodman at Research and
Management Systems, Inc. (RAMS), 404-350-3234 or
xxxxxx@foundationcommons.org.
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Submitted on behalf of American Cancer Society and
Foundation Commons by:
Marilyn T. Keyes
Research and Management Systems, Inc. (RAMS)

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