Category: Grants Management

April 20, 2007

Open source Grants.gov tools available from UC Berkeley

Ken Geis of UC Berkeley sent me this e‑mail today and I thought others would be interested in his Grants.gov tools. They help with the PureEdge forms right now and Ken plans to update them for the new Adobe forms (and…
April 18, 2007

Notes from Grants.gov Stakeholder Meeting 4/18/2007

Grants.gov posts the Webcasts about a week after the event so I thought these notes may be helpful for some folks.…

Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast today

Just a reminder that there’s a Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast today, open to one and all. Participation instructions are below. Please join us for the Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will…
April 10, 2007

FFATA pilot rumored

Word reaches me that OMB is moving ahead with a pilot FederalSpending system, relying on federated search technology coming from the Navy. Agencies that will apparently participate in the pilot include the three GMLOB leads (Education, NSF, and HHS/ACF), HUD, and…
April 4, 2007

How I Find Grants — blog dedicated to identifying grant resources

I came across a new blog today, called How I Find Grants. Its author, Becky McCray, says: I’m looking for grants for local city governments, nonprofit organizations, and community development. I keep tabs on grants from the government and from private foundations. I share what…
March 20, 2007

HandySoft crows about BizFlow at Labor for e‑grants

I see that HandySoft has released a statement about the Labor department’s use of their BizFlow suite for DOL’s E‑Grants system. Here at TCG, we’re big proponents of business process management software, so it’s encouraging to see a tool like BizFlow being fully…
March 19, 2007

Grants.gov and the NSF experience

Earlier this month, Science magazine’s ScienceCareers site had a nice article about Grants.gov, from the perspective of people from NSF, the developers of FastLane. If you’ve ever used FastLane, reading this article gives a good sense of how that system began and…
March 2, 2007

Grants Policy Committee webcast — March 8, 1.30pm‑3.30pm

The National Grants Partnership just sent out a reminder about the next Grants Policy Committee webcast, to be held next Thursday, March 8, from 1.30pm‑3.00pm. Details about how to attend and view the meeting are on the Grants.gov site. Looks like…
February 15, 2007

Profile of HHS/ACF GMLOB provider

Somehow I missed this when it was published earlier in the month (bad, Google Search, bad!) but GCN has a nice profile of the Administration for Children and Families’ GMLOB offering, GrantSolutions.gov. The article explains what the motivations were behind ACF nominating…

Federal Spending is up!

I see that the Web site intended to help guide development of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) system is live! Through the Federal Spending site, anyone can submit comments to the FFATA Task Force that’s working on the…