The next NGP meeting is on Monday. I can’t attend (TCG’s annual planning meeting odyssey starts Sunday) but that should only encourage you to go yourself! The new NGP white paper, “The Need for Federal Grants Management Standards,” will be formally…

The inimitable Jason Miller of FCW has just detailed the latest on FFATA and FedSpending.gov. Highlights here are: OMB wants agencies to test their processes for submission of data to FPDS-NG and FAADS GSA awarded a contract to Global Computing Enterprises…

Oh dear. The exact reasons why the application were late are not stated in this article but I think two of the comments have it spot-on: This is why my institution requires all electronically-submitted federal grants to be completed 7 business days…

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 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…

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…

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…

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…