May 31, 2010

FDP releases slide decks from May meeting

The FDP has made available all of the presentations from its meeting earlier in May. You can grab the whole lot here: http://sites.nationalacademies.org/PGA/fdp/PGA_057092. They include updates from NIH, NSF, Research.gov, ARO, AFOSR, among many others.…

GAO’s Recovery Act report released

Some pretty amazing numbers are included here. LIke this: “Across the United States, as of May 7, 2010, the Department of the Treasury has paid out $114.8 billion in Recovery Act funds for use in states and localities. Of that amount,…
April 28, 2010

Grants.gov — back to normal

I just returned from a little vacation to find this announcement [M‑10–16] from OMB regarding Grants.gov, confirming what many already understood: agencies are instructed to resume using Grants.gov’s “Apply” functionality for all grant programs that are eligible. This is not a surprise…
March 31, 2010

Next NGP Meeting and Webcast: May 11th

I neglected to post earlier that the National Grants Partnership’s next meeting is on May 11th, 1.30pm‑3.00pm, on the usual BatChannel (http://acrobat.tcg.com/thengp). Registration is free but required for those attending in person at the Department of Education in Washington, DC,…

NGMA wants some Hemingways

Maybe not so much with the drunkenness and philandering, but if you’ve got a way with words and a grants management topic that you just have to talk about! then the NGMA Journal folks want to hear from you. To whit: The Editorial…

FDP May 2010 registration now open

Get your hotel room while you can! Click on this link — http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Agenda.aspx?i=8f9fcf86-4805–4f7a-bab1-2dae2ae4d35c — to register.…

OMB Releases Updated Guidance on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act

Via our friends at the NGMA… On March 22, 2010, the Office of Management and Budget released a memorandum outlining updated guidance on the Recovery Act. This Memorandum: Highlights the steps Federal agencies must take to review data quality of recipient…
March 15, 2010

GAO issues FFATA report

On Friday GAO issued its expected report on FFATA. The summary is here and the full document is available here. The key findings are that: Subaward data isn’t close to be collected, and should be Data quality is questionable, with most…
February 23, 2010

Tom Cooley joining Deloitte

I thought others would be interested to learn that Tom Cooley, former CFO of the National Science Foundation, chair of the Grants Policy Committee, and mover-‘n’-shaker in grants management in general, is set to join Deloitte & Touché. More information is…
February 9, 2010

NGMA webcast moved to 2/17/10 (confirmed)

This is still in flux a little but the NGMA webcast scheduled for tomorrow (February 10th) is tentatively rescheduled to February 17th. NGMA will confirm this soon, I’m sure. Update 2/9/10 14:52: The rescheduled meeting is now confirmed for 2/17/10. All existing…