October 5, 2011

NGMA Announces Monthly Training Luncheon and Webcast Series Schedule

The National Grants Management Association (NGMA) has announced its monthly training series schedule for 2011–2012. The series will have 8 sessions running from October through June and registration is now open. Here is the full schedule: 10/19/11  Grants 101: Featuring Stephen…
August 3, 2011

FDP Fall General Meeting Registration Now Open

The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP), which is an association of federal agencies, academic research institutions, and research policy organizations that works to streamline the administration of federally sponsored research has announced that registration for the FDP Fall General Meeting, September…
August 2, 2011

OMB Seeks Comments

In the July 28, 2011 Federal Register, OMB requested comments on the renewal of the SF-425, Federal Financial Report. They are particularly interested in comments on how the SF-425 and SF-426A are an improvement over the data collections they replaced…
July 27, 2011

ACT-IAC releases results of grants management survey

ACT-IAC’s Collaboration & Transformation SIG recently released a white paper titled “Industry Survey of Challenges to Improve Federal Grants Management”. The group surveyed industry participants to identify opportunities for improvement of the Federal grants management process and associated systems. The conclusions are…
July 26, 2011

FDP Posts Draft Agenda for September Meeting

The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP), which is an association of federal agencies, academic research institutions, and research policy organizations that works to streamline the administration of federally sponsored research, has posted a draft agenda for the FDP’s September 2011 meeting on…
July 15, 2011

Grants.gov Announces Stakeholder Webcast

Grants.gov has announced that its next Stakeholder Webcast will be held on Wednesday, July 20, 2011 from 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. ET. This meeting will be a webcast only and registration is NOT required. The program agenda is as follows: …
July 6, 2011

AGA Call for Volunteers: Candidate Assessment Tool for Grants Managers

The Association of Government Accountants  (AGA) is launching a new project to help identify accomplished grants managers. AGA just issued a call for volunteers to develop a “Candidate Assessment Tool” for use by managers at all levels of government in screening candidates…

GPA Announces 13th Annual Conference and Expo

The Grants Professionals Association (GPA) has announced that the 13th Annual GPA Conference & Expo and CharityChannel Summit will be held at the Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel and Casino, October 5–8, 2011. This event, which will feature 50 plus workshops for…
July 5, 2011

FDP registration for September 2011 now open

The Federal Demonstration Partnership (FDP) has opened registration for their September 14–16 meeting. Go to this page to register. The agenda is still being finalized but the FDP meetings are always full of great content for research administrators and government…
June 13, 2011

All your Federal reporting are belong to us

Wow! Well, it looks like government reporting may be changing significantly if Rep. Darrell Issa’s proposed new DATA Act legislation is passed (summary here). This act will consolidate the tracking and reporting of all Federal spending, on contracts, grants, loans,…