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October 31, 2006
Solpath: an open source grants management package
Well I’m glad that someone has finally found the courage and means to start an open source grants management system project! These folks have just launched and are focused on foundations and non-profits. (Their chosen technology stack — PHP, MySQL,…
September 25, 2007
GAO says LOB funding contravenes appropriations law
Chris Dorobek’s blog is proving really useful! He’s highlighted a GAO report about DHS’s use of shared services, and notes that GAO has come to quite alarming conclusions:
“the legal principles are clear. [DHS] officials stated that the directorate pooled funds…
March 31, 2010
NGMA wants some Hemingways
Maybe not so much with the drunkenness and philandering, but if you’ve got a way with words and a grants management topic that you just have to talk about! then the NGMA Journal folks want to hear from you. To whit:
The Editorial…
October 5, 2006
Complete this survey!
Are you a grantee? Use a grants system? You should complete this survey. (Full disclosure: I’m the Co-Chair of this committee!)
If you haven’t already responded to the National Grants Partnership survey regarding the use of standards in grants management and administration,…
March 14, 2007
Tech Work from Home: A Survival Guide
Eric Spiegel is a fellow work-from-home type who founded a great company, XTS, which provides software for planning, managing and auditing Citrix and other virtualization platforms. He also writes a regular column for IT Management, the latest of which is all about the…
May 1, 2007
Next Grants Policy Committee webcast: June 19, 1pm-3pm
I just heard that the next GPC webcast will be on June 19, from 1pm to 3pm. I don’t believe that the agenda has been issued yet but you can bet that FFATA will be under discussion! The webcast will be held…
April 7, 2008
Thunderbird and Google Desktop
I love Thunderbird. I love using Google Desktop with it — two whaps
at the “Ctrl” button and I get my search box, and I’m seconds away from
finding any message.
Unfortunately, Google Desktop still doesn’t index documents attached
to email messages stored in…
November 10, 2011
TCG’s Dan Turner Participates in Inc. 500|5000 Interview
TCG’s president, Dan Turner, recently attended the annual Inc. 500|5000 awards ceremony to accept TCG’s award and was also invited by Inc. reporters to participate in a q‑and‑a session with other executives from winning companies. To read the full press release…
September 7, 2023
How Federal Agencies Can Get the Most from Their Atlassian Tools
Atlassian offers a powerful suite of tools to manage software development, DevSecOps, data collection, workforce management, ITSM/ESM, data analytics, and more. Agencies often face challenges in configuring these tools to create the value they actually need for their organization.
There are…
May 21, 2007
AZOGroup — tutorials about how to obtain grants
Chad Kimball of AZO Group contacted me by e‑mail to point out their online video tutorials about how to obtain grants from the government, foundations, and other places. I took a quick run through the Grants.gov one, and it looks pretty good.…