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

eGov monitor: Are all government IT projects doomed to fail?

I keep an eye on the UK government IT market because the situation there is often reflective of ours, Stateside. I think this article demonstrates that fact. For example: At the national level, the move from ‘e‑government’ to a ‘transformational government strategy’…

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

Call for articles: USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions newsletter

Just received this call for articles via the National Grants Partnership mailing list. Looks like a good opportunity to raise awareness about those doing good work! USA Services Intergovernmental Solutions publishes a newsletter that reports on trends and successes in information technology…

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…