Grantmaking needs a commons of open grant data. This would ideally improve transparency, streamline processes, and improve understanding of how individual grantors and the sector as a whole is impacting and shaping problems and solutions.
A grants commons may include data about
challenges (RFPs, challenges, topics)
proposals and their reviews (ideas, formal proposals, reviews)
projects (implementations, resulting sites + events + processes)
teams (organizations, people)
funders (foundations, reviewers)
impact (evaluations, reports)
shared standards (methods, schemas, vocabularies, interfaces)
We also need workflows for gathering, curating, and sharing data; for integrating them into an accessible whole; and for making public interfaces to them.