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September 19, 2006
NGP 9/12/06 webcast now online
Ken Fang of the excellent Altum Inc. kindly tapes and uploads video from each NGP meeting. The latest one has just been made available, at http://thengp.org/Meetings/20060912.htm. Apparently there was a slight audio drop-out during one presentation but otherwise it’s two hours…
March 7, 2008
NGP meeting: March 11
Judging on several of my recent posts, I think I’ve become the grants community’s social secretary! Here’s another one for your diaries: The National Grants Partnership (NGP) meeting is on March 11th at the Department of Education in Washington, DC. You…
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…
November 3, 2011
Is Wikipedia Really a First Page Search Result for Everything?
CC image courtesy of quartermane on Flickr
I like Wikipedia quite a lot. It is usually the first place I turn to find factual information about a topic. There are some people who don’t trust the site…notably my children’s elementary school teachers. Generally…
July 15, 2011
National Grants Partnership Announcements
The National Grants Partnership (NGP) has posted several announcements on its blog:
A recording of the July 13 webinar with the most up-to-date information on potential changes to federal grants reporting as envisioned in a recent Presidential Executive Order and Congressional legislation…
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…
September 6, 2011
Invitations From the Captain Can Not Be Declined
For as long as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed reading. As I’ve aged the kinds of books that I find interesting have been expanding. Historical fiction never interested me as a youth, but as an adult I found a number of authors in this genre…
May 14, 2013
They’re Here to Help
Site visits are for grantees, not federal agencies, says National Science Foundation officials.
Last week at the National Grants Management Association Annual Meeting a session on virtual site visits — using shared desktops, conference lines, and videoconferencing — had an underlying…
April 30, 2007
TCG To Support USDA’s Lean Six Sigma Grants Process Initiative
We will be issuing this press release first thing in the morning. We’re very excited about this project, for working at USDA again and because of our application of Lean Six Sigma techniques to grants streamlining!
TCG TO SUPPORT USDA’S…
September 28, 2009
Interior chooses PRISM-Grants
I see today that the Department of the Interior has selected Compusearch’s PRISM-Grants product for their end-to-end grant lifecycle. From the Compusearch press release:
“At the conclusion of a comprehensive analysis of all of the available options, one of which was…