ARIA is a service of the AIM Institute, a not-for-profit membership organization based in Omaha, Neb. Created by a consortium of business, education and government organizations, our mission is to empower communities, organizations and individuals through information technology. Learn more about the AIM Institute at www.aiminstitute.org.

Established in 1992, our mission has created opportunities for us to become part of the federal TRiO grant community. We manage programs funded by TRiO Upward Bound, Educational Opportunity Centers (EOC), and Talent Search grants. During the course of our work on these initiatives, our staff experienced first-hand the need for a better participant-tracking and accountability-reporting tool.

Toward that end, our Educational and IT staff teamed up to develop ARIA, a web-based data collection and analysis system that successfully meets all the data collection and reporting requirements of these grant programs. Having perfected the system through use on our own TRiO grant and program management efforts, we began customizing ARIA for organizations outside the TRiO community. We are now pleased to offer ARIA as a viable tool to all organizations that must meet reporting requirements pertaining to their program participants.