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May 25, 2011
TCG Is a Top Small Company Workplace Winner
Inc. Magazine and Winning Workplaces have named TCG as one of the nation’s Top Small Company Workplaces for 2011. The Top Small Company Workplaces awards—an annual contest that recognizes the nation’s best small and mid-sized company work environments—was announced in…
Are you a project manager with grants management experience?
We’re currently looking for a project manager with extensive grants management experience to join TCG. To find out more, check out the job listing on our web site, and send us your resume. Among other things, the right person will have:…
May 24, 2011
Announcing AABPA’s Summer Intern Program
AABPA is pleased to announce that it is once again offering a specialized education program for summer interns who are interested in pursuing a career in budgeting or program analysis. The program will be held Thursday, July 7, 2011 at George Washington…
NGMA to Host Monthly Training Session on Internal Audit
The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) will host its monthly training session tomorrow, May 25th, starting at 11:30 a.m. at Maggiano’s Little Italy Restaurant, 5333 Wisconsin Avenue, NW, Washington, DC. This month’s training session is on “Internal Audit.” Click here…
May 23, 2011
NIH Awards First-Time Grant to Long-Time Grants Management Experts
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has awarded TCG a Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant to develop a cloud-based data sharing system for neuroscience. While TCG has helped agencies manage tens of thousands of grants for others for 17 years,this is…
May 19, 2011
GAO report on Grants.gov is critical (again)
GAO is charged with monitoring the performance and progress achieved by Grants.gov over its lifetime and its latest report was released earlier this month. The highlights include:
Agencies are being charged by Grants.gov based on their size and not their…
Pass-the-hat funding gets a slap from OMB Watch
NextGov highlights an OMB Watch report that discusses the challenges facing e‑gov initiatives that are funded using a “pass-the-hat” approach. Grants.gov is one of these initiatives, and faces multiple challenges in this area, as a recent GAO report about Grants.gov examined.…
May 18, 2011
LAMHDI Exhibits at Immunology 2011
TCG’s LAMHDI Team–Judith Turner, Matt Travers, and Haig Evans-Kavaldjian–manned an exhibit at Immunology 2011, the 98th Annual Meeting of the American Association of Immunologists in San Francisco, May 14th-17th. The conference, which is the largest annual immunology meeting worldwide, featured…
Grants.gov will be competed among 8(a) firms
Much of the discussion lately in the grants management systems community has been about the upcoming recompete of the Grants.gov IT support contract, currently held by General Dynamics IT. A sources sought was issued in April and now word reaches me…
May 17, 2011
AABPA Conducting Survey of Federal Budget Professionals
The American Association for Budget and Program Analysis (AABPA) has joined forces with Grant Thornton LLP to conduct a survey of Federal budget professionals. This survey covers budget formulation, budget and performance integration, budget execution, resource constraints, congressional issues, systems and…