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…

FCW reports that GSA issued another modification to its solicitation for the data and system to power FederalSpending.gov by January 1st; now they just want data and no software. This is all rather inscrutable to me. From the article: “GSA…

You wait ages for an easy way to search federal awards data and then two come along at once! Well, almost. The folks who currently support the Federal Procurement Data System — Next Generation (known as FPDS-NG) have launched a competitor…

FDP’s inimitable Ron Splittgerber of Colorado State has taken it upon himself to start a wiki that will document agency grant systems, interfaces, forms, and a host of other great information. The prototype is up here and will be based on data…