Olsson Funding Strategy Dashboard

Authors

Reed W. McHenry, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Spencer Godina, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Linh Truong, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Max Sievenpiper, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow
Yashraj Purbey, University of Nebraska - LincolnFollow

First Advisor

Rob Nickolaus

Date of this Version

Spring 5-2025

Document Type

Thesis

Citation

Godina, Spencer., McHenry, Reed., Purbey, Yashraj., Truong, Linh., & Sievenpiper, Max. Olsson Funding Strategy Dashboard. Undergraduate Honors Thesis. University of Nebraska-Lincoln. 2025.

Comments

Copyright Godina, Spencer., McHenry, Reed., Purbey, Yashraj., Truong, Linh., & Sievenpiper, Max. 2025

Abstract

Olsson’s Funding Strategy Team works with communities to identify critical infrastructure projects in need of funding. The 2024-2025 Olsson Design Studio team developed the Funding Strategy Dashboard to deliver a streamlined process for identifying and assessing discretionary grant funding opportunities for city infrastructure projects. The dashboard leverages the Simpler.Grants.Gov API to quickly search, sort, and filter grant opportunities. Utilizing a custom-designed algorithm to determine similarity scores between funding opportunities and infrastructure projects, the main dashboard will allow the Funding Strategy Team to quickly assess the most applicable funding opportunities for a given project. The Funding Strategy Dashboard centralizes and filters large volumes of grant data and intelligently recommends the funding sources that are the best fit based on project characteristics and eligibility criteria.