Category: Grants Management
April 18, 2007
Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast today
Just a reminder that there’s a Grants.gov Stakeholders Webcast today, open to one and all. Participation instructions are below.
Please join us for the Grants.gov Stakeholder Webcast on Wednesday, April 18, 2007, from 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be…
April 10, 2007
FFATA pilot rumored
Word reaches me that OMB is moving ahead with a pilot FederalSpending system, relying on federated search technology coming from the Navy. Agencies that will apparently participate in the pilot include the three GMLOB leads (Education, NSF, and HHS/ACF), HUD, and DOD. …
April 4, 2007
How I Find Grants — blog dedicated to identifying grant resources
I came across a new blog today, called How I Find Grants. Its author, Becky McCray, says:
I’m looking for grants for local city governments, nonprofit organizations, and community development. I keep tabs on grants from the government and from private foundations. I share what…
March 20, 2007
HandySoft crows about BizFlow at Labor for e‑grants
I see that HandySoft has released a statement about the Labor department’s use of their BizFlow suite for DOL’s E‑Grants system. Here at TCG, we’re big proponents of business process management software, so it’s encouraging to see a tool like BizFlow being fully…
March 19, 2007
Grants.gov and the NSF experience
Earlier this month, Science magazine’s ScienceCareers site had a nice article about Grants.gov, from the perspective of people from NSF, the developers of FastLane. If you’ve ever used FastLane, reading this article gives a good sense of how that system began and…
March 2, 2007
Grants Policy Committee webcast — March 8, 1.30pm‑3.30pm
The National Grants Partnership just sent out a reminder about the next Grants Policy Committee webcast, to be held next Thursday, March 8, from 1.30pm‑3.00pm. Details about how to attend and view the meeting are on the Grants.gov site. Looks like…
February 15, 2007
Profile of HHS/ACF GMLOB provider
Somehow I missed this when it was published earlier in the month (bad, Google Search, bad!) but GCN has a nice profile of the Administration for Children and Families’ GMLOB offering, GrantSolutions.gov. The article explains what the motivations were behind ACF nominating…
Federal Spending is up!
I see that the Web site intended to help guide development of the Federal Funding Accountability and Transparency Act (FFATA) system is live! Through the Federal Spending site, anyone can submit comments to the FFATA Task Force that’s working on the…
January 24, 2007
Misnomer of the week: E‑gov = shutting down old systems
Wyatt Kash at GCN has a message for OMB: by shutting down legacy e‑gov systems, “the administration can strengthen its case for cross-agency funding of these, and future, e‑government projects.”
Grants.gov is perhaps the best example of an e‑government initiative that…
January 15, 2007
Grants.gov’s Windows limitation on Slashdot
I see that Grants.gov’s Windows limitation has been mentioned on Slashdot today. Odd that it should appear now, when Grants.gov’s on the road to making it a non-issue by April, but also interesting to see tech-ire in the wild!…