October 25, 2012

Can responding to data calls be any more difficult?

The AABPA has just announced that registration is open for their next free webcast, “MAX Collect: Can responding to Data Calls be any more difficult?”, from 1pm-2pm on October 31st. You can register for this event right here. MAX Collect…
October 10, 2012

You Are What You Measure: Accountability

When states were forced to make their spending public, the process helped the states learn what they were doing well.
September 12, 2012

Getting the Edge on Jobs in Grantmaking

New credential for jobs in grantmaking may give some people an edge.
August 21, 2012

NGMA Training Series Begins With a Bang

NGMA presents GAO, the agency that has had as much of an effect on grants management as any organization but Congress itself.
July 28, 2012

Senator Coburn: “Fraud, Waste, and Stupidity” in Grants Management

$687 billion in unspent grant money is sitting in accounts all around the country -- Senate committee wants to find out why.
July 13, 2012

GAO Report Dumps Grants Overlaps in Wrong Lap

The GAO Report released this week that looked at overlap in Department of Justice grants programs found an alarming number of overlapping programs and, not surprisingly, grants applications that repeated the same language for programs at different DOJ agencies. “DOJ…
July 10, 2012

First Certified Grants Management Professionals

Grants management is getting more complicated with every new funding bill that passes Congress or in state legislatures, and with every new grants program created in federal, state, and local governments and in private foundations. Perhaps once grants could be…
May 7, 2012

DATA Act Sets Taxpayers Against Grants Recipients

H.R. 2146 provides no money to grantees and contractors for the reporting they will be required to do.
May 3, 2012

Lack of Documentation a Common Audit Finding

If you don't write it down, you might as well not do it when it comes to A133 audits.
March 28, 2012

GAO to FEMA: Make Sure Grants Programs Do Not Overlap

The GAO can't tell whether four of FEMA's grants programs overlap, because FEMA doesn't collect enough information on recipients.