Grant Seeking Goes Paperless

As grant makers move applications to the Internet, charities find the process time-consuming and frustrating

In the seven years that Nigel Savage had been running Hazon, a small environmental group in New York, he had never seen a grant application take so long to complete.

Mr. Savage was working with several other nonprofit groups last year to obtain a $225,000 federal grant that would help support organic farmers. But the federal government, like a growing number of private grant makers nationwide, now urges grant seekers to submit their applications online rather than through the

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