Author: David Cassidy
May 22, 2007
Grants.gov reschedules Adobe deployment for “the summer”
More from the NGP meeting… Apparently the deployment of the new Grants.gov is being rescheduled for “some time over the summer”, according to Michael Pellegrino of the Grants.gov PMO. These details are being finalized over the next two days or…
GPC votes unanimously *not* to reauthorize P.L. 106–107
I’m just listening to an NGP meeting and heard Tony Cavataio report that the Grants Policy Committee voted unanimously not to reauthorize Public Law 106–107, the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act. The purposes of this law, which is set…
May 21, 2007
Press release about Cayuse’s growth
Through the wonders of Google I stumbled upon this press release that gives some high-level information about Cayuse, a company providing software through which grantees can manage their applications:
Leading research and education institutes including The University of California at San Francisco,…
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.…
May 9, 2007
Call for articles: USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions newsletter
Just received this call for articles via the National Grants Partnership mailing list. Looks like a good opportunity to raise awareness about those doing good work!
USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions publishes a newsletter that reports on trends and successes in information technology…
HUD’s Barbara Dorf selected for National Public Service Award
There’s a nice profile of Barbara Dorf, HUD’s Director of the Office of Departmental Grants Management and Oversight, in this Federal Times report about recipients of the National Public Service Award. In it, Barbara is quoted talking about HUD’s Logic Model…
May 1, 2007
Complete Cost/Benefit of Enterprise Grants Management deck
Courtesy of our friends at Grantium, we can post all three presentations [PDF] that were given at a Grantium-sponsored event last week about “Cost/Benefit Analysis of Enterprise Grants Management”. The presenters were:
Sandy Swab, Grants Consultant, talked about The Drivers for…
FFATA data elements memo published
I didn’t know this [PDF] had been published but apparently so! OMB has released a memo detailing the data elements that agencies must collect and provide to comply with FFATA. From the memo:
Agencies now must organize and categorize this information for…
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 30, 2007
Dan advocates FreeCycle
Dan Turner, the chap who runs TCG, has been quoted in a Washington Business Journal article about how some local businesses save money while growing:
Dan Turner, president of TCG, says the company’s goal is to save the government a total of…