October 14, 2009

NGP meeting / webcast — October 20th

These are exciting times for the National Grants Partnership! A big announcement will be made by Tom Cooley of the GPC and the NGP co-chairs on October 20th, at the next meeting and webcast, so be sure to join us there. As…

Grants.gov webcast October 21st

Grants.gov’s next webcast will be on October 21st…or so Bob Beattie (aka “Cheeky Monkey”) tells me. And it’s true, too! See? Turns out that Bob is a special guest star of this webcast — the first time a non-government person will be…
October 9, 2009

TCG Ranked #25 on Washington Business Journal List of Small Technology Companies

TCG has been recognized by Washington Business Journal as one of the Top 25 Small Technology Companies in the Washington, DC metropolitan area.  TCG came in at #25. The list, which is based on rankings by 2008 metro-area revenue and…
September 29, 2009

OMB mandating Grants.gov again?

I was unable to attend the FDP meeting last week but colleagues tell me that some mention was made of OMB’s plan to once again mandate agency use of Grants.gov for all incoming grant applications. OMB allowed agencies to use…
September 28, 2009

Interior chooses PRISM-Grants

I see today that the Department of the Interior has selected Compusearch’s PRISM-Grants product for their end-to-end grant lifecycle. From the Compusearch press release: “At the conclusion of a comprehensive analysis of all of the available options, one of which was…
July 29, 2009

We like it when the government saves money

TCG has a corporate goal of saving the US taxpayer $1 billion by 2016, by improving how government works. So we love it when we see news like this, showing how the government is saving $100 million in budget cuts for…
July 25, 2009

Grants.gov GAO report news links

GAO’s recent report about Grants.gov has garnered a lot of coverage across the web and in print. Here are some of the links I’ve been following: Senators, GAO Criticize Grants.gov [National Journal] GAO: Grants.gov has serious weaknesses [Federal Computer Week] GAO:…
July 16, 2009

ARRA grantee webcasts now scheduled

Following up from an earlier post, I see that NGMA has announced the ARRA training provided by OMB: July 20, 2009  10:00am — 12:00pm SECTION 1 — General Information 2:00pm — 4:00pm SECTION 2 — Basic Principles and Requirements of Recovery Act Recipient…

A Rising Star is among us — congratulations to Rich Renomeron!

One of TCG’s senior technical staff, Rich Renomeron, has been honored as a 2009 Rising Star by 1105 Government Information Group, publisher of Federal Computer Week, Washington Technology, and other government IT industry publications. From the announcement… Now in its fourth…
July 15, 2009

Have I moved to California?

Grants.gov held its latest webcast (I believe) at 1pm today. So how come I got an e‑mail inviting me to attend that webcast at 1.44pm? Answers in the comments, please……