July 25, 2009

NGMA calling for ARRA articles

The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) publishes a peer-reviewed bi-annual journal on a wide variety of grants management topics. They’re currently seeking new articles from the community. Here’s their information release: Call for Articles — American Recovery and Reinvestment Act The Editorial…

Grants.gov GAO report news links

GAO’s recent report about Grants.gov has garnered a lot of coverage across the web and in print. Here are some of the links I’ve been following: Senators, GAO Criticize Grants.gov [National Journal] GAO: Grants.gov has serious weaknesses [Federal Computer Week] GAO:…
July 16, 2009

ARRA grantee webcasts now scheduled

Following up from an earlier post, I see that NGMA has announced the ARRA training provided by OMB: July 20, 2009 10:00am — 12:00pm SECTION 1 — General Information 2:00pm — 4:00pm SECTION 2 — Basic Principles and Requirements of Recovery…

A Rising Star is among us — congratulations to Rich Renomeron!

One of TCG’s senior technical staff, Rich Renomeron, has been honored as a 2009 Rising Star by 1105 Government Information Group, publisher of Federal Computer Week, Washington Technology, and other government IT industry publications. From the announcement… Now in its fourth…
July 15, 2009

Have I moved to California?

Grants.gov held its latest webcast (I believe) at 1pm today. So how come I got an e‑mail inviting me to attend that webcast at 1.44pm? Answers in the comments, please……

GAO releases new Grants.gov report; recommends changes

Today GAO has released a report called “Grants.gov Has Systemic Weaknesses That Require Attention”; you can grab it here. The report highlights spell out some serious flaws in the governance, funding, design, and operation of Grants.gov, which are reasonably well known…
July 10, 2009

NGMA offering federal grants online training

It’s late on a Friday, so of course I’m posting grants management news to the blog. What? You mean you don’t post information about the business of grants at the start of the weekend?! Anyway, the NGMA announced earlier this week…

OMB ARRA guidance webinars in two weeks

As posted over at the NGP blog… The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Recovery, Accountability and Transparency Board have announced that webinars will be held the week of July 20,2009 to provide information on implementing the guidance…
July 7, 2009

GSA funds new Grants.gov pilot

According to this posting on FedBizOpps, GSA is giving Symplicity Corporation some funds “to acquire a pilot that will facilitate the need to support the efforts of the Recovery Act of 2009 and rebuild and possible deployment (sic) of a working pilot…
June 1, 2009

NGMA lunch canceled

The NGMA training lunch at which Dominic Sale, the OMB GMLOB Portfolio Manager, was scheduled to speak has been canceled. Apparently things are so hectic at OMB that it’s proven impossible to schedule any appropriate time. The next NGMA lunch…