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October 22, 2007
NGP meeting and webcast today
I can’t make the NGP meeting today from 13.30–15.30 EDT so I’ll be catching up via Webcast, but everyone who can attend should! (If you haven’t already registered, you can still join via webcast.) The participation details are below, and the…
July 31, 2006
GCN story on GAO report
This GCN article is a little misleading, making GAO’s report sound like a condemnation of Grants.gov, which it doesn’t appear to be to me. While Grants.gov comes in for some criticism in GAO’s report, it is not the root of all the…
December 12, 2007
TCG Alum is famous!
We’ve had getting-up-towards 200 employees over the years. Many left when the company had hard times, some left because they found other work or had kids, we even lost two to Amazon and one to Microsoft. (Amazingly, our voluntary turnover…
July 30, 2008
P.L. 106–107 reauthorization in progress
Cornelia Chebinou of the NGP just posted about Senators Voinovich and Lieberman’s proposed reauthorization of the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act. The NGP is accepting comments on the proposed legislation to submit to Congress. I wonder what prompted this sudden…
July 27, 2006
A nice reminder
I went to a meeting today with some folks I’d never met before and we got to talking about the use of open source. They are in a government agency and are extremely enthusiastic about using as much OSS as possible. And…
June 28, 2016
What or Where?
by Craig Gusmann, Proposal Coordinator
Real talk: No child dreams of becoming a proposal coordinator. My goal has always been to become a writer. Being a notoriously difficult profession to get paid in, I instead searched for writing-based professions that weren’t as glamorous as “novelist,”…
May 1, 2007
FFATA data elements memo published
I didn’t know this [PDF] had been published but apparently so! OMB has released a memo detailing the data elements that agencies must collect and provide to comply with FFATA. From the memo:
Agencies now must organize and categorize this information for access…
June 13, 2011
All your Federal reporting are belong to us
Wow! Well, it looks like government reporting may be changing significantly if Rep. Darrell Issa’s proposed new DATA Act legislation is passed (summary here). This act will consolidate the tracking and reporting of all Federal spending, on contracts, grants, loans,…
February 14, 2014
COFAR Answers Frequently Asked Questions
Who asks these questions?
August 1, 2006
More on that GCN story / business problem ≠ technology problem
Yesterday I posted about this GCN story that seems to lay all blame for grants management inefficiencies at Grants.gov’s door. In re-reading the article, think the author got the wrong end of the stick from GAO’s report. Here’s the first sentence…