Sector Foundations, NGO
	Partners IBM
	Solution Online Grants Process, Online Contacts, Website Content Publication
	Technology SQL-Server, C#, Domino, LotusScript, JavaScript, DHTML/HTML

The German Marshall Fund (GMF) of the United States is a nonpartisan, American public policy and grant-making institution dedicated to promoting greater cooperation and understanding between the United States and Europe.

MadWolf established a business relationship with GMF in 1999, supplying IT Support and Network Administration. In 2001, MadWolf was asked to bid on the rewrite of the Grants and Contacts management system used by GMF. MadWolf rewrote the existing systems, closely linking the Contacts system with the Grants system. We built into the specifications an early CRM centered on the Contacts that focused on Personal and Institutional Grant making. Additionally, MadWolf implemented suggestions to improve the original specification, enhancing functionality by including features such Contact promotion (through a gatekeeper) from personal address books, and establishing organizational contact hierarchies.

GMF's recent organizational growth has engendered the need for a very content-rich website—that now has over 1,200 documents in various life-cycle states. GMF has again turned to MadWolf to build and implement the new system.

MadWolf developed for GMF an object control that permits authenticated users the ability to drag documents and drop them into folders or view them for web publication. The folder names and tree structures are dynamically represented on the website without the need of a developer—thus allowing for lower overall maintenance of the site.

The site also allows authenticated users to interact with Grant life-cycle disbursements and fellows contacts. This data is moved through a replication process from secured locations into a DMZ, located outside of the GMF domains—thereby offering further layers of security.