July 9, 2007

Grants.gov reaches major milestone

This news was posted to the Grants.gov technical alerts Web page today. It’s really a wonderful achievement.  Grants.gov Processes 150,000th Federal Grant Application! Grants.gov has received its 150,000th electronic grant application for fiscal year 2007, far exceeding a program milestone for the…
June 28, 2007

Next GPC Meeting: 2pm 10/30/07

At the Grants Policy Committee meeting last Wednesday, Tom Cooley announced that the GPC is working on a new strategic plan, and would appreciate input from the grants community. To provide it, send comments to gpcwebcast@nsf.gov. The next GPC meeting is…
June 25, 2007

FFATA presentation now online

Received from Cornelia Chebinou of NASACT, via The NGP: A copy of the presentation on the Federal Financial Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) given by Tom Cooley, Chair of the Grants Policy Committee, and presented during the recent Grants Policy Committee…
June 8, 2007

Webcast on New FFATA Legislation & Strategic Planning

Got this from the Grants Policy Committee, as a reminder for the June 19 webcast:  The Grants Policy Committee (GPC) continues to lead federal grant management and administration streamlining activities. The next GPC Stakeholder Webcast & Meeting will be held on Tuesday,…
June 3, 2007

What systems do you use to store and manage proposals and their content?

We have a LOT of content that’s used in proposals. We’d like a better way to store, retrieve, and reuse that content. How does your organization do this? We’re looking for something that can work over the Web and is more sophisticated…
June 1, 2007

NIH seeking grants IT people

NIH has posted several government payscale GS-15 (senior level, effectively) job openings in the area that builds and operates their grants management system, eRA. Here are the links to the postings:  Chief, Operations Branch Chief, Customer Relations Branch Chief, Design…

Warning re Grants.gov’s expected high submission volume

Just got this from Vince Sprouls at Grants.gov, via the NGP. Take heed!  Due to high volume of submissions expected through Grants.gov due to multiple agency closings through June 5 the response time for processing applications may be longer than usual. …
May 29, 2007

Grants.gov Update from FDP Meeting, 5/25/2007

Feeling refreshed from a long weekend of being exhausted by children, I’m pleased to finally write up my notes from the Grants.gov Update session at last week’s FDP meeting. Michael Pellegrino, Vince Sprouls, and a gentleman whose name I didn’t catch presented the…
May 27, 2007

Scott Adams on Peer Review

The Great Philosopher of our Age, Scott Adams (yes, the Dilbert cartoonist), has a little ditty about the peer review process which is, in his usual style, hilarious and damning at the same time.…
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…