MicroEdge addresses the mandated compliance requirements created by the USA Patriot ACT and OFAC Compliance regulations with the GIFTS grants management solution. GIFTS seamlessly incorporates sophisticated contact management capabilities with specialized, comprehensive compliance tools to facilitate the management of compliance standards and the related requirements of your organization.

Using MicroEdge Solutions, grantmakers can perform verification list checks of both organizations and individuals immediately prior to making payments, ensuring that due diligence is performed at this crucial stage, with the most current information available.

With the MicroEdge solution, you can address the three main issues of compliance:

• Up-Front Data Collection - - Capture compliance-related information up-front in the grant making process
• Basic Fact Checking - A built-in, transparent link to GuideStar EZ Basic and Charity Check services enables grantmakers to perform essential due diligence research and basic OFAC organization checks
• Expanded Compliance Checking - Third-party compliance verification services provide up-to-the-minute checking of all organizations and individuals against one or more publicly available government watch listss

Alliance with Leading Compliance Service Providers
MicroEdge offers a link to third-party compliance vendors through a set of custom reports that export GIFTS organization and contact records in a format that can be used for verification by compliance vendor solutions.

These vendors provide the level of accountability that most funders require; with fast searching capabilities and a "matching component" that verifies current database records against a wide variety of up-to-date government lists such as…

• OFAC SDN and Blocked Countries
• Canadian Consolidated List
• European Union Terrorism List
• United Nations Consolidated List
• And many others

Through our partnership with a number of compliance vendors, MicroEdge clients receive special discounts on their services.