Find grants from the ideas already in your Telegram
Message your Notis bot with a project idea. Notis searches Highergov grant opportunities and returns a focused set to review.
Trigger
New Message Received
Triggered when your bot receives a new message in a private chat, group, or supergroup. To receive every message in a group, Privacy Mode must be disabled for the bot in BotFather.
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
A promising project idea can get buried in chat while you try to figure out which funding search to run.
- Capture funding ideas in the conversation where they happen.
- Get relevant grant opportunities without rebuilding the search from scratch.
- Keep the next review small and easier to act on.
Setup
Build it in a few focused steps.
- 1Connect Telegram and Highergov to Notis once in the portal.
- 2Create an automation in the portal or ask Notis conversationally to build it.
- 3Use one plain-language instruction: when I message a grant concept, find relevant Highergov grant opportunities and summarize the best matches.
- 4Select Telegram New Message Received as the trigger and choose where run reports should go.
- 5Test it by sending one real project concept to the bot.
Questions about this workflow
What should I include in my Telegram message?
Describe the project, who it serves, and any funding theme or location you already know. Notis can interpret a natural-language request.
Does this create or submit a grant application?
No. It retrieves grant opportunity information from Highergov so you can decide what to pursue.
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Supported Triggers and Actions
Notis builds workflows that link Telegram to Highergov. A trigger fires from one place; an action lands in another.
Telegram triggers
Highergov actions
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Connect any two apps with Notis in the middle.
Telegram and Highergov, or any other combination from 1,000+ integrations.
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