March 14, 2008

Grants Management Events Calendar

For a while I’ve been frustrated that there’s no one single source of information about grants management events. Between Grants.gov, the Grants Policy Committee, GMLOB, NGMA, NGP, and FDP, there’s a lot going on! So I decided to make one, and just added…
September 1, 2006

S.2590 — A month of procedural nonsense

It’s been quite a month for S.2590, the bill that proposes to establish an easily searchable database of all federal grants and contracts, and about which I’ve blogged several times (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6). The bill had a hold put…
April 29, 2009

Grants.gov gets applause for recent build

Monday was the deadline for a large grant opportunity, and Grants.gov performed very well! Whatever measures the team has taken seems to have really helped. As one submitter from a university wrote on the Grants.gov system-to-system mailing list: “Like most folks, we…
July 17, 2018

This Was Not Your Average Day at Work

Each June we hold our Annual All-hands Meeting. It’s the one time of year that all of us come together to learn about the status and future of the company, the latest news on our projects, internal developments, and to…
November 1, 2009

Performance management reform around the corner

The Bush administration implemented the PART program, to the consternation of many, and then no-one really paid much attention to the data when it came to developing the government’s budget. Often used as a stick rather than a carrot, PART made headway…
June 15, 2011

NITRC Passes Milestone

NITRC–the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse–recently passed the 3,000 registered users level and now has 383 registered tools available for users. TCG built and operates NITRC for NIH. Under this contract, TCG established a web-based clearinghouse for neuroimaging analysis tools,…
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…
May 15, 2008

FDP: Grants.gov Update

The new Grants.gov PMO discussed the status of the system. Eben Trebino introduced the session:  Working with a system built 3 years ago that’s handling four times more capacity than it was designed to manage. Now approaching 130,000 applications being submitted through…
May 11, 2012

TCG Ranked #23 on 2012 Inner City 100 List

The Initiative for a Competitive Inner City (ICIC) and Fortune Magazine have named TCG as one of the 100 fastest-growing inner city companies in the United States. The Inner City 100 program recognizes successful inner city companies and their CEOs as…
June 21, 2016

TCG’s Got Talent

by Maureen Sullivan, Vice President of Talent Acquisition  I am an HTML Goddess! Or at least, I was, once upon a time. It was 1995 and building websites was a mysterious and magical craft. Being given that title — it was my official title!…