March 31, 2010

Next NGP Meeting and Webcast: May 11th

I neglected to post earlier that the National Grants Partnership’s next meeting is on May 11th, 1.30pm‑3.00pm, on the usual BatChannel (http://acrobat.tcg.com/thengp). Registration is free but required for those attending in person at the Department of Education in Washington, DC,…

NGMA wants some Hemingways

Maybe not so much with the drunkenness and philandering, but if you’ve got a way with words and a grants management topic that you just have to talk about! then the NGMA Journal folks want to hear from you. To whit: The…

FDP May 2010 registration now open

Get your hotel room while you can! Click on this link — http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?i=8f9fcf86-4805–4f7a-bab1-2dae2ae4d35c — to register.…

OMB Releases Updated Guidance on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Via our friends at the NGMA… On March 22, 2010, the Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum outlining updated guidance on the Recovery Act. This Memorandum: Highlights the steps Federal agencies must take to review data quality of recipient…
March 19, 2010

2010 Excellence.Gov Awards Top 20 Announced

Just received the good word from ACT-IAC that the top 20 finalists for this year’s Excellence.Gov Awards can be announced. So here goes…! Each year, the Excellence.Gov Awards recognize the federal government’s best IT projects. This year’s theme, “Game Changers:…
March 15, 2010

GAO issues FFATA report

On Friday GAO issued its expected report on FFATA. The summary is here and the full document is available here. The key findings are that: Subaward data isn’t close to be collected, and should be Data quality is questionable, with…
February 23, 2010

2010 Excellence.Gov Awards registration now open

The Excellence.Gov Awards recognize the very best in government IT programs every year, and registration for this year’s awards luncheon is now open at the ACT/IAC web site. The event will be held on April 29, starting at 11.30am. (Disclosure:…

Tom Cooley joining Deloitte

I thought others would be interested to learn that Tom Cooley, former CFO of the National Science Foundation, chair of the Grants Policy Committee, and mover-‘n’-shaker in grants management in general, is set to join Deloitte & Touché. More information is…
February 12, 2010

Global Warming Can Cause Snow!

Watching the evening news, I saw yet another person ponder the unusually cold weather and claim “I thought global warming was supposed to be a bigger deal…”.  Here’s the fun fact: global warming causes amazing new patterns of snow and heat, consistent…
February 9, 2010

NGMA webcast moved to 2/17/10 (confirmed)

This is still in flux a little but the NGMA webcast scheduled for tomorrow (February 10th) is tentatively rescheduled to February 17th. NGMA will confirm this soon, I’m sure. Update 2/9/10 14:52: The rescheduled meeting is now confirmed for 2/17/10. All…