Category: Grants Management
November 8, 2006
Altum acquires Easygrants from defunct Arlington Group
I see that our friends at Altum have acquired Arlington Group’s Easygrants software! This is a great development for Easygrant users because support was non-existent as a consequence of Arlington Group shutting up shop. Altum’s a great company and their founder, Ken Fang, is…
October 31, 2006
Solpath: an open source grants management package
Well I’m glad that someone has finally found the courage and means to start an open source grants management system project! These folks have just launched and are focused on foundations and non-profits. (Their chosen technology stack — PHP, MySQL,…
October 26, 2006
Grants.gov Stakeholder’s Meeting 10/25/06. And I don’t mean to be annoying. Honest!
The Grants.gov PMO held their bi-monthly Stakeholder’s Meeting yesterday and while I couldn’t attend (we’re responding to a large proposal and I’m — how can I put it? — going nuts) I got the notes from a colleague. The presentations should be on the Grants.gov…
Google seeks access to Grants.gov data (and others) — what about RSS?
They’re already indexing every book on the planet, so why not government data? GovExec reports that Google is trying to open government data to Internet search engines (though I can’t imagine which one they have in mind!) to better enable users…
October 23, 2006
GCN article about FM and GM integration
Jason Miller just filed new story for GCN discussing how the Financial Management Line of Business (FMLOB) and Grants Management Line of Business (GMLOB) are working together to figure out how they intersect. Yours truly is quoted in there (I’m…
October 6, 2006
OMB Watch launching FedSpending.org
OMB Watch just sent out invitations to the launch of FedSpending.org, the database of Federal funding and awards that is something of a model for the Federal Financial Transparency and Accountability Act (FFATA), formerly known as bill S.2590. I can’t attend but…
October 5, 2006
Complete this survey!
Are you a grantee? Use a grants system? You should complete this survey. (Full disclosure: I’m the Co-Chair of this committee!)
If you haven’t already responded to the National Grants Partnership survey regarding the use of standards in grants management and administration,…
Grants.gov outages and SI transition
Grants.gov just released a notice about their plan for transitioning to the new system integrator, Anteon/General Dynamics. Headline: The system will be down this Sunday, October 8th, from 10am ET to 6pm ET! All other planned outages are contained in this…
Unannounced Grants.gov file format change causes problems
Users of Grants.Gov’s XML downloads of funding opportunity announcements got an unpleasant surprise recently: the XML files changed, without any announcement or forewarning. The problem is apparently in the XML date elements:
PostDate
ApplicationsDueDate
ArchiveDate
Up to now, the ISO…
Grants performance accountability and the PART
GovExec has a nice piece about GAO-06–1046, the report I blogged about a while ago. GovExec’s article has a nice summary of why the report was requested:
The study was requested by Rep. Todd Platts, R‑Pa., chairman of the House Government Reform Subcommittee on…