What is it with the Office of Management and Budget and holidays? After issuing the uniform grant guidance last year on the day after Christmas (and setting an implementation date for Dec. 26 of this year), OMB and the Council…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services plans to issue guidance to states explaining their responsibilities for participating in the Medicaid Interstate Match in response to a…

After witnessing the recent violence in Ferguson, Mo., and the presence of fully armed police departments, a New York University School of Law think tank is calling for President Obama to reform criminal justice grant programs that fund state and…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) Officials with the Wisconsin Department of Administration planned to determine if a separate annual audit of the state’s Home Energy Assistance and Weatherization Assistance programs was warranted…

Have you ever experienced first-hand that old expression of “waiting for the other shoe to drop?” That’s essentially what the grants community is feeling right now. We’ve been told what to expect as far as the uniform grant guidance is…

If this doesn’t get you “fired up,” nothing will (excuse the pun!). The increasing amount of federal dollars being spent to put out forest fires is threatening the Forest Service’s budget, according to two federal department heads.

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Department of Health and Human Services Departmental Appeals Board recently upheld an Administration for Children and Families disallowance of almost $1.4 million in federal Head Start…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) Audit organizations should be aware that the quality of their single audits will be under federal scrutiny in four years under a provision in the Office of…

Leave it to Gil Tran of the Office of Management and Budget to come up with a new way to view grants. Tran, whose presentations at conferences and events are typically amusing and full of anecdotes ranging from songs from…

Fill up the gas tank because we’ll be hitting the road over the next month or so, traveling to various forums and conferences that we expect will provide some worthwhile information on the latest on federal grants management and single…