Contacts
Contacts are mostly listed in an address book within an organization. There is a one-to-many relationship between organizations/requests and contacts. There can be multiple contacts associated with a request, and every contact is thus associated with the organization. There can also be contacts related to an organization that is not associated with requests. Contacts are not necessarily registered users. Also, letters and emails created from Mail Templates can be sent to contacts.
Grantseekers
Grantseekers are the registered users who are applying for funding. There is also a one-to-many relationship between organizations/requests and grantseekers. However, only one grantseeker can be associated with a request at any given time. There can be many registered grantseekers, each submitting their own requests. In addition, email events are sent to grantseekers. In many cases, grantseekers are also points of contact for the organization/request, and so the grantseeker would also list them as a contact within the organization. There are often grantseekers that have been contracted as grant writers by multiple organizations and therefore have one grantseeker user ID registered in several org records. They are not officially associated with the organization, so they are not listed as Contacts within an organization or request.
For Example, Joe Smith is a grant writer (grantseeker) and has been contracted by the American Red Cross, Habitat for Humanity, and Catholic Charities. Joe is registered with grantmaker ABC in all three organizations. Habitat has tasked Joe with grant writing for an upcoming program. When completing an application, three contacts already exist within the organization and are available to be selected: Ann White as the executive director, Bob Davenport as the program director, and the writer, who is not associated with either the organization or the request, even though the writer is the grantseeker submitting the application.
