Category: Grants Management
July 15, 2009
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…
May 29, 2009
NGP Meeting — June 9th — be there!
The agenda for the NGP’s June 9th meeting has been announced. Register at , and join us at 1.30pm at the Department of Education at 550 12th Street SW, Washington, DC, or via webcast at https://stage.tcg.com.acrobat.com/thengp.
GAO Study of Grants.gov…
May 26, 2009
NGMA lunch to be rescheduled
If you were planning on attending the NGMA training luncheon tomorrow, featuring Dominic Sale of OMB talking about “The Use of Technology in Managing Grants: Guidance and Direction — Recovery.gov and GMLOB”, then you can stop right now because it’s…
May 4, 2009
Grants.gov report from GAO cites concerns
Last week the GAO released a report (GAO-09–590R) on the status of Grants.gov, in response to enquiries from Congressmen Voinovich, Towns, Lynch, and Davis. The report echoes many of the concerns expressed by OMB several weeks ago but GAO goes a few…
Federal grants management systems landscape
Last week I gave the presentation below at the Compusearch PRISM Educational Conference. On the panel with me were Katie Hermosilla (Booz Allen Hamilton) and Chae Shim and Tracy Mosson (Compusearch). Katie talked about the policy side of the grants management…
April 29, 2009
Grants.gov gets applause for recent build
Monday was the deadline for a large grant opportunity, and Grants.gov performed very well! Whatever measures the team has taken seems to have really helped. As one submitter from a university wrote on the Grants.gov system-to-system mailing list:
“Like most folks, we…