Author: Pete Sinnott
May 7, 2012
DATA Act Sets Taxpayers Against Grants Recipients
H.R. 2146 provides no money to grantees and contractors for the reporting they will be required to do.
May 3, 2012
Lack of Documentation a Common Audit Finding
If you don't write it down, you might as well not do it when it comes to A133 audits.
March 28, 2012
GAO to FEMA: Make Sure Grants Programs Do Not Overlap
The GAO can't tell whether four of FEMA's grants programs overlap, because FEMA doesn't collect enough information on recipients.
March 15, 2012
Adrianne Fielding New NGMA Executive Director
Adrianne Fielding is taking over as Executive Director of the National Grants Management Association. She comes from Thompson Publishing, where she was Grants Managing Editor, steering some 30 of their products. Adrianne was a member of the NGMA board and…
March 1, 2012
Online Grants Manual Part of Maryland’s Grants Library
The Maryland Governor’s Grants Office has put its grants managers’ manual on its website along with other resources that applicants and administrators might need. One link on the site, for instance. lets businesses download a document that contains finance programs for…
February 28, 2012
OMB: What Do You Think About Reforming Cost Principles and Single Audit?
OMB heads up: comments are going to be solicited soon on proposed changes to grants and cooperative agreements.
December 27, 2011
Standardized Grants Forms: It’s Hard to Make It Easy
Council on Financial Assistance Reform is trying to make it easier for people and organizations to apply for financial assistance.
Identifying Grants Fraud an Updated Old-fashioned Way
Recovery.gov has been touting its ability to identify waste and fraud in Recovery Act grants, and other grantmaking efforts are taking note. But the most successful methods are also the old-fashioned ones (albeit updated with technology).
The outgoing head of…
December 25, 2011
GAO Says FMCSA Grant Management Still a Risk
A new report, issued this month, faults the agency for not doing a better job formalizing its grants management policies, training its staff in those policies, and involving its lawyers in reviewing grants.
December 21, 2011
GATB Proposes Standard Grants Identification System
Government Accountability & Transparency Board addresses grants in first report.