Category: Grants Management
May 24, 2007
FFATA/GPC Webcast confirmed for June 19
I’m at the FDP meeting today and Charisse Carney-Nunes, a Senior Staff Associate of the Grants Policy Committee, reported that there will indeed be a webcast about FFATA on June 19th, as I previously reported here, and has been publicized in this Federal…
Cayuse aims to support grant applications superbly
I met with Chris Harker and Al Hooton of Cayuse yesterday, and we had a very interesting discussion about their product and the state of ERA (electronic research administration, which refers to research institution’s management of grants and not simply the similarly-monikered…
May 22, 2007
FDP Meeting this week
I’ll be at the FDP meeting on Thursday afternoon and briefly on Friday morning. My primary interests are the sessions on Grants.gov, Research.gov, and GMLOB, and it’s always fun to bump into new folks. If you’d like to meet up…
Grants.gov reschedules Adobe deployment for “the summer”
More from the NGP meeting… Apparently the deployment of the new Grants.gov is being rescheduled for “some time over the summer”, according to Michael Pellegrino of the Grants.gov PMO. These details are being finalized over the next two days or…
GPC votes unanimously *not* to reauthorize P.L. 106–107
I’m just listening to an NGP meeting and heard Tony Cavataio report that the Grants Policy Committee voted unanimously not to reauthorize Public Law 106–107, the Federal Financial Assistance Management Improvement Act. The purposes of this law, which is set…
May 21, 2007
Press release about Cayuse’s growth
Through the wonders of Google I stumbled upon this press release that gives some high-level information about Cayuse, a company providing software through which grantees can manage their applications:
Leading research and education institutes including The University of California at San Francisco,…
AZOGroup — tutorials about how to obtain grants
Chad Kimball of AZO Group contacted me by e‑mail to point out their online video tutorials about how to obtain grants from the government, foundations, and other places. I took a quick run through the Grants.gov one, and it looks pretty good.…
May 9, 2007
HUD’s Barbara Dorf selected for National Public Service Award
There’s a nice profile of Barbara Dorf, HUD’s Director of the Office of Departmental Grants Management and Oversight, in this Federal Times report about recipients of the National Public Service Award. In it, Barbara is quoted talking about HUD’s Logic Model…
May 1, 2007
Complete Cost/Benefit of Enterprise Grants Management deck
Courtesy of our friends at Grantium, we can post all three presentations [PDF] that were given at a Grantium-sponsored event last week about “Cost/Benefit Analysis of Enterprise Grants Management”. The presenters were:
Sandy Swab, Grants Consultant, talked about The Drivers for…
FFATA data elements memo published
I didn’t know this [PDF] had been published but apparently so! OMB has released a memo detailing the data elements that agencies must collect and provide to comply with FFATA. From the memo:
Agencies now must organize and categorize this information for…