Author: David Cassidy

November 1, 2007

Does grant-making need an overhaul?

The Atlantic magazine’s cover story last month was about the Clinton Foundation’s efforts to revitalize philanthropy [subscription required to read the full article] by bootstrapping and harnessing market forces for social projects, such as improving the HIV/AIDS drug supply to…
October 24, 2007

NGP seeking Grants.gov improvement suggestions

Just saw this on the NGP mailing list: This is a follow up to an earlier request and comment from the recent NGP Webcast to provide your suggested enhancements for Grants.gov FIND. We are on a short deadline and would like to…

Grants.gov now supports Adobe Reader 8.1.1

Grants.gov made this announcement yesterday. Great progress! Grants.gov now supports the latest version of Adobe Reader (8.1.1), which is available for free download from the Adobe Website http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Grants.gov continues to support Adobe Reader version 7.0.9. Only these two versions…
October 22, 2007

NGP meeting and webcast today

I can’t make the NGP meeting today from 13.30–15.30 EDT so I’ll be catching up via Webcast, but everyone who can attend should! (If you haven’t already registered, you can still join via webcast.) The participation details are below, and the…
October 17, 2007

OMB GMLOB guidance released for Q1 FY08

Thanks to Jerry Ashworth at Thompson Publishing, editor of the Federal Grants Management Handbook (disclosure: I’m a member of the Handbook Advisory Board), for pointing me toward the GrantSolutions.gov site where OMB’s latest guidance has been posted. This is the guidance…
October 10, 2007

Grants.gov Webcast on October 17th

Just a quick reminder that there’s a Grants.gov Webcast next Wednesday from 1pm to 3pm. Here’s how to participate: 1. Go to http://www.hud.gov 2. Go to the bottom right hand corner of the page under the title “Now Playing.” At 12:30 Eastern…

Government IT wiki starts up

[Via FCW] A group of former feds and industry folks have started GovITwiki, a collaborative resource for those seeking information on federal IT budgets, procurement practices, and so on. If this gains traction, it could be a good source of information for any…

Free training on neuroimaging tools clearinghouse tomorrow

If you have an interest in neuroimaging informatics tools and resources, you should attend the free, online training being held tomorrow on the Neuroimaging Informatics Tools and Resources Clearinghouse. NITRC, as the site is known, is being built by NIH…
September 26, 2007

GSA changes tack on FederalSpending.gov solicitation. Again

FCW reports that GSA issued another modification to its solicitation for the data and system to power FederalSpending.gov by January 1st; now they just want data and no software. This is all rather inscrutable to me. From the article: “GSA…
September 25, 2007

FFATA.org launched

You wait ages for an easy way to search federal awards data and then two come along at once! Well, almost. The folks who currently support the Federal Procurement Data System — Next Generation (known as FPDS-NG) have launched a competitor…