December 4, 2015 – 8:37 am
(The following was excerpted from a recent article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook.) The Office of Management and Budget’s (OMB’s) uniform grant guidance requires federal agencies and pass-through entities to clearly define the intended performance outcomes of recipients and…
QUACK! Here we are again, comparing grants to ducks. Why? Because the more things change, the more they stay the same. Let me explain.
(The following was excerpted from an article in the Federal Grants Management Handbook). Nonprofit organizations receiving funds from pass-through entities should not simply rely on the pass-through entity to tell them whether or not they are receiving federal grant funds,…
April 12, 2013 – 10:39 am
Sometimes you don’t really realize how much you miss something until it’s gone. What’s worse is missing something because you weren’t even aware that that particular thing would soon be gone. At least with this blog post, you won’t fall…
December 26, 2012 – 11:41 am
So, just how well do you understand the grantee-subgrantee relationship? One of the most common audit findings occurs when a prime grant recipient has failed to correctly identify a subrecipient as such and has instead executed a contract. Such a…
Call me stubborn but I’m still not convinced that the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (H.R. 2146), more famously known as the DATA Act, is exactly a good thing — or at least in its current form. Like most others…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Awards, Compliance/Reporting, Congress, Funding Agencies, Grants Management, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Professional Organizations, Recovery Act/ARRA/Stimulus, State and Local Governments, Technology/Systems
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Also tagged Congress, DATA Act, implementation guidance, notice of proposed guidance, OMB, Recovery Act, reporting
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November 28, 2011 – 12:19 pm
You may have noticed that Funding Attractions had a couple of days off over the Thanksgiving holiday. We hope that you were also able to get a little downtime with your nearest and dearest.