Albert Einstein once quoted that immortal line that I’m quite sure you’ve heard before, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Well, this slogan is appropriate now that it’s March Madness time again….

Anyone who has read through the Office of Management and Budget’s grant reform guidance (and I would hope that all grants stakeholders already have) knows that improving performance is a critical goal for the future of grants management. Although not…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Government Accountability Office encouraged the Department of Transportation, Federal Highway Administration to provide specific criteria to states to help them determine whether local entities are capable…

After focusing so much on the details of the Office of Management and Budget’s grant reform guidance, we failed to notice an important announcement recently posted on the Recovery.gov website. The Section 1512 reporting requirement for American Recovery and Reinvestment…

Recipients of grants from the National Science Foundation should be aware that the agency recently revised its Grant General Conditions, along with some of its other key grants policies. The revisions, effective Feb. 24, 2014, aren’t overly extensive, but they…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) As the Office of Management and Budget works with federal agencies to help them implement regulations based on its new grants reform guidance, also known in the…

GuideStar, a nonprofit organization that seeks to promote transparency among the nonprofit community, delivered its first “impact call” Feb. 24 to publicly report its own results and “to jump-start the conversation on how transparency is defined and conveyed.” Transparency is…

(The following was excerpted from an article in the Single Audit Information Service.) The Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services plans to take steps to recoup overpayments made from 2011 to 2013 to individuals in the Assistance to the…

Today we want to piggyback on the Office of Management and Budget’s recently released Frequently Asked Questions on the new grants reform guidance. Rather than letting you know our thoughts on a particular topic, we want to solicit your feedback…

If you’ve ever purchased a home, you may have gotten this nervous feeling in your gut during the closing. Remember how you were presented with a stack of documents to sign with tons of legal language. Then you were asked…