Category: Grants Management
November 22, 2005
DOJ IG Lists Grant Management as Top Management Challenge
The Department of Justice’s Inspector General has included Grants Management on its list of Top Management Challenges in the Department of Justice. Several audits have found some grant administration difficulties in Justice’s handling of the $3.5 billion appropriated to Department…
November 21, 2005
Grants.gov Find and Apply merger — now December 19
Just received an e‑mail about this from Grants.gov. Highlights below:
Grants.gov is pleased to announce the new date for its Find and Apply merge will occur on December 19th. This marks another important accomplishment for Grants.gov
initiative. On this date,…
NGMA Lunch, 11/17/2005
Following a fender bender on Dolly Madison Parkway last Thursday, I made it to the National Grants Management Association’s monthly lunch at Maggiano’s in Tenleytown. Tom Cooley, CFO of the National Science Foundation, was the speaker and he had a lot of interesting…
Grants.gov and Macs — update
Over at Partial Recall,
Rob gives us an update on what NIH is doing regarding PureEdge’s
inability to provide a Mac client to Grants.gov. The latest news is
that the Mac client will be available in November 2006. Now, I could be
wrong,…
November 17, 2005
PMA Scorecard shows eGov disappointments
OMB released the PMA Scorecard for September 30, 2005, and grades on e‑government have dropped for six agencies, as FCW reports here. Meanwhile, Transportation and Labor maintained their green status, and HHS and Treasury moved from yellow to green on…
August 30, 2005
NGP article in GCN
Before I went on vacation last week I was interviewed by Government Computer News’ Jason Miller about the National Grants Partnership’s first white paper. The resulting article was published yesterday and I think it captures the core of the white paper very well,…
August 9, 2005
Vienna using social software for grant applications peer review
(Via Boing Boing) A Viennese art group called netznetz has decided to use a “reputation system” to decide how it will distribute the grant money it receives from the local government. The aim is to encourage collaboration among the grantee community…
August 8, 2005
NGMA Conference 2006
If you didn’t already know, registration for the National Grants Management Association’s 27th Annual Conference, running from 26–27 April in Washington DC, is now open. The 2005 conference had several highlights for me, which I posted about on my blog.…
July 25, 2005
IBM acquiring PureEdge
Woah! Government Technology reports that IBM is buying PureEdge, the producer of the e‑forms software that’s used by Grants.gov,
among many others. I think this has been in the works for a while now,
given that PureEdge seems to have obtained quite…
July 18, 2005
Accelerating Grants Streamlining — NGP paper #1 released!
The first NGP White Paper, Accelerating Grants Streamlining: Furthering the Recommendations of GAO’s Grants Streamlining Report,
was released a few hours ago. I’m the co-chair of the NGP White Paper
Series Committee and the team did a really fantastic job in putting
this…