March 15, 2012

Adrianne Fielding New NGMA Executive Director

  Adrianne Fielding is taking over as Executive Director of the National Grants Management Association. She comes from Thompson Publishing, where she was Grants Managing Editor, steering some 30 of their products. Adrianne was a member of the NGMA board and…
March 1, 2012

Online Grants Manual Part of Maryland’s Grants Library

The Maryland Governor’s Grants Office has put its grants managers’ manual on its website along with other resources that applicants and administrators might need. One link on the site, for instance. lets businesses download a document that contains  finance programs for…
February 28, 2012

OMB: What Do You Think About Reforming Cost Principles and Single Audit?

OMB heads up: comments are going to be solicited soon on proposed changes to grants and cooperative agreements.
December 27, 2011

Standardized Grants Forms: It’s Hard to Make It Easy

Council on Financial Assistance Reform is trying to make it easier for people and organizations to apply for financial assistance.

Identifying Grants Fraud an Updated Old-fashioned Way

Recovery.gov has been touting its ability to identify waste and fraud in Recovery Act grants, and other grantmaking efforts are taking note. But the most successful methods are also the old-fashioned ones (albeit updated with technology). The outgoing head of…
December 25, 2011

GAO Says FMCSA Grant Management Still a Risk

A new report, issued this month, faults the agency for not doing a better job formalizing its grants management policies, training its staff in those policies, and involving its lawyers in reviewing grants.
December 21, 2011

GATB Proposes Standard Grants Identification System

Government Accountability & Transparency Board addresses grants in first report.
September 25, 2011

Telecommuting Is About Productivity, Not Pajamas

A company called CareerBuilder “the U.S.‘s largest online job site,” sent out a news release this month with the headline “Nearly One-in-Five Americans Who Work From Home Spend One Hour a Day or Less Working, CareerBuilder Survey Finds.” The question CareerBuilder tried…
September 23, 2011

How much does a government employee cost?

What does our federal workforce cost us? It’s a hard question to answer, because the Bureau of Labor Statistics doesn’t say what the loaded cost is. BLS says the average federal salary is $35.65/hour (see their website), but that isn’t the…
July 27, 2011

ACT-IAC releases results of grants management survey

ACT-IAC’s Collaboration & Transformation SIG recently released a white paper titled “Industry Survey of Challenges to Improve Federal Grants Management”. The group surveyed industry participants to identify opportunities for improvement of the Federal grants management process and associated systems. The conclusions are…