January 10, 2006

TCG’s David G. Cassidy Appointed to Thompson Federal Grants Management Handbook Advisory Board

Providing subject matter expertise to leading Federal grants management publication

Washington, DC, January 10, 2006: TCG announced today that David G. Cassidy, Vice President of the company, has accepted a post on the Advisory Board of Thompson Publishing’s Federal Grants Management Handbook, the leading publication for government grants managers and recipients. As a member of the Advisory Board, Mr. Cassidy will provide input on Federal grants management news, trends, policies, and guidance, and will publish articles in the Handbook’s newsletter.

In his role at TCG Mr. Cassidy specializes in the implementation of enterprise-level e‑grants systems for the Federal government and provides grants management subject matter expertise to all grants-related projects. He is the co-chair of the National Grants Partnership’s White Paper Series Committee and publishes grants management news on the TCG blog (http://blog.tcg.com/tcg/grants_management/).

“The government enables incredible achievements through grant-making, from rebuilding lives devastated by natural disasters such as Hurricane Katrina to the development of powerful technologies such as the Internet,” said Mr. Cassidy. “The Federal Grants Management Handbook is grant recipients’ first stop for timely, accurate guidance on how to obtain and manage these public funds. I’m excited to work with my fellow Advisory Board members to improve Federal grants management for the benefit of the nation.”

About TCG
TCG is a business process and IT advisory services company with a focus on grants management, bioinformatics, and CMMI mentoring and software engineering best practices.

TCG focuses on helping government agencies use the power of the Internet and the Web to better interact with the public, and to generate internal cost savings and efficiencies. TCG projects have won awards for their groundbreaking achievements, including piloting the first inter-agency grants management system, and creating the first inter-agency government system to receive secure information from the general public.

TCG was one of the fastest-growing privately-held companies in the United States in 2001, as ranked by Inc. magazine, and has been on Washington Technology’s Fast 50. The company was SEI-assessed at Capability Maturity Model Integration Maturity Level 2 in April 2004 and is one of about 70 companies worldwide to have achieved such recognition of process excellence.

For more information, contact David G. Cassidy on 202–742-8471 or david.cassidy@tcg.com, or see https://stage.tcg.com.

About the Federal Grants Management Handbook
The Federal Grants Management Handbook is a comprehensive guide to all of the steps recipients must follow to ensure government-wide compliance with complex administrative requirements for federal grants. From submitting grant proposals to setting up financial management systems for payment and reporting to audits and grant closeout, the Handbook covers every aspect of the grants award and management life cycle and is thoroughly indexed and cross-referenced for easy use. All of the primary source documents grant recipients need are included — OMB circulars, Treasury regulations and other government-wide policies such as lobbying restrictions, debarment and nondiscrimination. Throughout the Handbook, readers find helpful compliance tools such as checklists, sample forms and proven methods of grant management compliance. Newsletters and Handbook updates provide timely news and analysis. For more information, see http://www.thompson.com.