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May 31, 2010
GAO’s Recovery Act report released
Some pretty amazing numbers are included here. LIke this:
“Across the United States, as of May 7, 2010, the Department of the Treasury has paid out $114.8 billion in Recovery Act funds for use in states and localities. Of that amount,…
April 28, 2009
GDIT gets Grants.gov sole source contract extension
Grants.gov has determined (through a very rigorous process) that only General Dynamics IT, their current contractor, can help them through this frantic period of activity and meet the goals of the Recovery Act, and has awarded them a contract extension, as this…
November 29, 2005
Johns Hopkins accelerates Grants.gov plans
MIT participated in Grants.gov’s applicant system-to-system interface pilot, developing out their Coeus system, which is used by a great many grantees for their grants management needs. Steve Dowdy, MIT’s lead developer for this effort, is a very well-spoken advocate and critic of…
September 10, 2007
The unsaid reason why agencies resist GMLOB
Last week and today I’ve been having interested chats with various people about GMLOB and attempts to consolidate grants management operations. One key point has emerged from these discussions and I thought it might be useful to describe it here.
The problem…
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
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…
November 4, 2008
A Script to Automatically Update Clamav Packages
Clamav is an excellent open source multi-platform antivirus program that we use on our systems and projects. While clamav comes with utilities to update the antivirus definitions, there isn’t a utility to update the engine (instead the antivirus update gives a warning).…
September 15, 2006
The Arlington Group shuts down
I just found out today that The Arlington Group, a provider of grants management software, has shut down! I hadn’t heard that they’d exited the marketplace or — more startlingly — closed completely. Their product, Easygrants, was a Microsoft .Net-based system and, to my…
March 24, 2009
According to a couple of studies, our core values help team morale
According to two studies, companies or teams or groups where the leader of the group is fair and honest will perform better than teams where the that is not seen as accurate.
This is kind of a “duh” study, but…
March 31, 2009
NGP meeting & webcast today 1.30pm
Just a reminder that the National Grants Partnership hosts a regular meeting today at 1.30pm. If you haven’t registered to attend in person, don’t worry! You can view the webcast at no cost. For more information on this, check the agenda. Here’s…