Follow up on grant questions in Slack DMs
A funding need shared privately can still become a useful Highergov grant search, without relying on memory to revisit it later.
Trigger
Direct Message Received
Triggered when a new direct message (DM) is sent to a user in Slack. Catches all DMs across all DM channels.
Action
Get Grant Opportunities
Tool to retrieve information on grant opportunities. Use when you need a paginated list of grants filtered by keyword, agency, or status.
Why this helps
Useful funding questions often arrive in DMs, where they are easy to lose among unrelated conversations.
- Gives private funding questions a defined follow-up.
- Reduces the need to copy context into another tool.
- Helps the requester begin evaluating relevant grants.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Slack and Highergov to Notis once through the portal.
- 2Create the automation in the portal or ask Notis to set it up in plain language.
- 3Give Notis one instruction to search Highergov grant opportunities when a DM asks about funding.
- 4Choose the Slack direct message trigger and set a channel for run reports.
- 5Test with a real funding question in a DM and review the search results.
Questions about this workflow
Does this work for direct messages?
Yes. Select the Slack direct message received trigger, which catches DMs across Slack DM channels.
Where will Notis report the run?
Choose the channel for run reports as part of creating the automation.
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