Author: Pete Sinnott
January 15, 2014
Guidance on Uniform Guidance: Learning What’s in the Supercircular
If you are involved in grants or grantmaking in any capacity, you know that the Office of Management and Budget has attempted to bring together all those pesky federal regulations, rules, advisories, and guidance notices; standardize them; and publish them in…
December 25, 2013
One More Present to Open: New (Simplified) Rules on Federal Grants
OMB's new grants rules published December 26.
May 14, 2013
They’re Here to Help
Site visits are for grantees, not federal agencies, says National Science Foundation officials.
Last week at the National Grants Management Association Annual Meeting a session on virtual site visits — using shared desktops, conference lines, and videoconferencing — had an underlying…
November 16, 2012
Collaborating Across Agencies
The secrets to effective collaborative efforts across federal agencies are the same as the keys to good projects within agencies.
October 10, 2012
You Are What You Measure: Accountability
When states were forced to make their spending public, the process helped the states learn what they were doing well.
September 12, 2012
Getting the Edge on Jobs in Grantmaking
New credential for jobs in grantmaking may give some people an edge.
August 21, 2012
NGMA Training Series Begins With a Bang
NGMA presents GAO, the agency that has had as much of an effect on grants management as any organization but Congress itself.
July 28, 2012
Senator Coburn: “Fraud, Waste, and Stupidity” in Grants Management
$687 billion in unspent grant money is sitting in accounts all around the country -- Senate committee wants to find out why.
July 13, 2012
GAO Report Dumps Grants Overlaps in Wrong Lap
The GAO Report released this week that looked at overlap in Department of Justice grants programs found an alarming number of overlapping programs and, not surprisingly, grants applications that repeated the same language for programs at different DOJ agencies.
“DOJ…
July 10, 2012
First Certified Grants Management Professionals
Grants management is getting more complicated with every new funding bill that passes Congress or in state legislatures, and with every new grants program created in federal, state, and local governments and in private foundations. Perhaps once grants could be…