February 28, 2014 – 3:02 pm
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…
February 18, 2014 – 4:53 pm
Back in 2009, it seemed like everything that came across my computer included the word “recovery.” This made perfect since as Congress had just passed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Now, it seems that the key buzzword is “transparency.”…
January 14, 2014 – 3:39 pm
The Office of Management and Budget’s new uniform grants reform guidance may be grabbing the headlines in the grants world these days, but important work still goes on in other areas. For instance, the Government Accountability and Transparency Board, also known…
February 17, 2012 – 10:59 am
Three years ago today, President Obama signed the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 – otherwise known as the stimulus bill, the Recovery Act or ARRA – into law. And the opinions about it have been flying…
One of my favorite phrases when discussing numbers is the familiar refrain “lies, damn lies and statistics.” It seems as if statistics can be interpreted in any fashion to make a certain point. Such is the case with USASpending.gov.
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Awards, Compliance/Reporting, Congress, Foundations, Grants Management, Monitoring/Subrecipients/Subawards, OMB Circulars and Regulations
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Also tagged accountability, CFDA, data quality, National Grants Partnership, OMB, reporting, statistics, Sunlight Foundation, USASpending.gov
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It was a packed room and an absolute gush-fest for the work of Earl Devaney and the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board that he chairs at the full hearing of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform that I…
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