Category: Grants Management
May 25, 2011
Are you a project manager with grants management experience?
We’re currently looking for a project manager with extensive grants management experience to join TCG. To find out more, check out the job listing on our web site, and send us your resume. Among other things, the right person will have:…
May 23, 2011
NIH Awards First-Time Grant to Long-Time Grants Management Experts
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded TCG a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a cloud-based data sharing system for neuroscience. While TCG has helped agencies manage tens of thousands of grants for others for 17 years,this is…
May 19, 2011
GAO report on Grants.gov is critical (again)
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…
Pass-the-hat funding gets a slap from OMB Watch
NextGov highlights an OMB Watch report that discusses the challenges facing e‑gov initiatives that are funded using a “pass-the-hat” approach. Grants.gov is one of these initiatives, and faces multiple challenges in this area, as a recent GAO report about Grants.gov examined.…
May 18, 2011
Grants.gov will be competed among 8(a) firms
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…
May 16, 2011
NGMA Announces Federal Grants Management Training Webinar
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) in alliance with Feldesman Tucker Leifer Fidell LLP is hosting a grants training webinar “Program Income–What Federal Strings Are Attached?” on Tuesday, May 17th starting at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Click here for more information and…
May 4, 2011
TCG Exhibits at NGMA Conference
TCG exhibited at the National Grants Management Association’s (NGMA) 32nd Annual Grants Management Training Conference at the Hershey Lodge and Conference Center in Hershey, PA, May 1–4, 2011. The conference was attended by over 300 grants professionals—representing both grantors and…
February 18, 2011
FDP January presentations now online
The Federal Demonstration Partnership held its last meeting in late January, and all the presentations are now available on their web site. There’s some very informative data here:
Updates from NIH, NSF, NASA, ONR, AFOSR, and USDA
The Future of…
Thompson launches new grants blog
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…
January 26, 2011
Rumors of a new cloud-based grants filing initiative
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.”…