Step 2. Add a widget to your website

Get a custom widget to showcase your data on your website or intranet. 

What is a widget?

A widget is a small window that you can add to your website which usually displays some ‘live’ information. You might have seen organisation’s websites where a few of their recent social media posts appear on their homepage – that’s a widget. Or if you have a weather app on your phone that shows you the weather forecast on your home screen without you having to open the app – that’s a widget too. 

Why get a 360Giving widget?

Our free widgets let you show your grants data on your website or intranet as a table or a graph, alongside your 360Giving file. 

For example, you could add a table showing all your grants awarded in the last 12 months, or you could add a chart under each Grant Programme showing the amounts awarded within that programme.

360Giving data widgets can help you to:

• Display your grants data on your own website in an easy-to-read way, showing who and what you fund, or the size of your typical grants.
• Create an easy link to the list of grants you awarded in a given year for your Annual Report SORP disclosure.
• Show that you publish your grants data in the 360Giving Data Standard, signalling your commitment to open grantmaking and funder transparency.
• Highlight data which might be of interest to your stakeholders to help show the impact of your work.

Example widgets

Here are three examples of the kind of widgets you can create with your data.  

This widget shows all the grants in the 360Giving dataset by amount awarded:

This widget shows all the grants in the 360Giving dataset by date awarded:

This widget shows all the grants published in the last three months, sorted to show the highest amount awarded first:

How to build a widget

Only 360Giving publishers can get a free widget, so first you’ll need to fill out the form below to sign up. We’ll email you a link and login details so that you can use our widget builder, as well as some instructions for how to use it.

Next, you run a search in our widget builder. It works in exactly the same way as the search in GrantNav. That means you can search by keyword(s) to display certain causes or topics, or filter by grant date, amount, programme, geography and more. 

When you’ve got the search results you want, choose the type of ‘view’ you’d like for your widget (either a table or a chart). 

The widget builder then gives you a small bit of HTML code. You’ll need to add this to the ‘back end’ of a page of your website or intranet to display the 360Giving widget. If you aren’t sure how, ask the person who looks after your website for help. 

Further resources:

• Our GrantNav User Guide includes tips on how to run a search