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…
The Association of Government Accountants (AGA) is launching a new project to help identify accomplished grants managers. AGA just issued a call for volunteers to develop a “Candidate Assessment Tool” for use by managers at all levels of government in screening candidates…
GAO is charged with monitoring the performance and progress achieved by Grants.gov over its lifetime and its latest report was released earlier this month. The highlights include:
Agencies are being charged by Grants.gov based on their size and not their…
Much of the discussion lately in the grants management systems community has been about the upcoming recompete of the Grants.gov IT support contract, currently held by General Dynamics IT. A sources sought was issued in April and now word reaches me…
Thompson Publishing is responsible for the Federal Grants Management Handbook, the bible of anyone with responsibility in managing government grants and ensuring compliance to agency and Federal law and regulations. They’ve now launched Funding Attractions, a new blog that will post…
Mark Forman, the former OMB leader responsible for initiation of the Grants Management Line of Business (GMLoB), has announced that he will be “joining a colleague of mine in government reform, jumping into the cloud, with a cloud-computing initiative around grants filing.”…
Grants.gov will be talking about its future tomorrow, at 1pm. At that time, go to http://videocast.nih.gov to join the session. The complete agenda looks like this:
Introduction – PMO
FY2010 Highlights
Security Build Implementation/Resources
Operational Status – System Outages/Impact
System-to-System
Next Release…
From our friends at the National Grants Partnership:
The team at Grants.gov is soliciting your input to the below questions concerning the next generation of Grants.gov. We would appreciate if you could provide you thoughts to thengp@aol.com no later than…
OK, this is getting silly now. Another grants management announcement today! This time it’s Grants.gov’s fall newsletter. Some interesting stuff here:
54% increase in application submissions during FY 2009.
Recovery Act information on Grants.gov.
Submissions now being validated at Grants.gov in record…
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…
