October 23, 2014 – 12:34 am
Federal awarding agencies are preparing their regulations to integrate the Office of Management and Budget’s uniform grant guidance, which OMB will release in December, but that’s no reason for you as a grant recipient to sit back and wait for…
September 30, 2014 – 10:53 am
Quick! Clear your schedules for Thursday afternoon (assuming you have that option). The Council on Federal Financial Reform and the Office of Management and Budget are hosting a two-hour webinar Oct. 2 starting at 1 p.m.
August 26, 2014 – 10:06 am
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…
February 3, 2014 – 3:39 pm
Remember the key words of the Boy Scout motto? Be prepared! Thinking back on a webinar hosted by Thompson last Thursday featuring Tiffany Winters, partner at Brustein & Manasevit, PLLC, that motto seems to ring true for grantees now that…
January 29, 2014 – 4:14 pm
Did you get a chance to attend the webinar on the new grants reform guidance hosted on Monday by the Council on Financial Assistance Reform and the Office of Management and Budget? If so, were you among those of us…
January 10, 2014 – 6:55 pm
You’ve heard about it; now’s your time to learn more about it. The Office of Management and Budget last month issued its uniform grants guidance, previously referred to as the “supercircular,” which is the most expansive grant reform since the…
January 7, 2014 – 8:31 pm
At the Federal Demonstration Partnership meeting in D.C. this morning, Victoria Collin of the Office of Management and Budget was comparing the new grants reform guidance to marriage. In essence, the proposal stage was the dating stage and now that…
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Cost Principles/Direct Costs/Indirect Costs, Funding Agencies, Grant Seeking, Grants Management, Grants/Funding Announcements, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Professional Organizations, Single Audits, State and Local Governments
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Also tagged Federal Demonstration Partnership, grants reform guidance, OMB
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February 20, 2013 – 7:56 am
So I’m sure all you have diligently spent the last couple of weeks reading every word of OMB’s 244-page proposed grants reform guidance, as well as all the various crosswalks, and now know them word-for-word.
By Jerry Ashworth
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Posted in Grants Management, Improper Payments, OMB Circulars and Regulations, Single Audits, Technology/Systems
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Also tagged fiscal cliff, grant, grants, IPERA, OMB, proposed grants reform guidance, Thompson
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February 14, 2013 – 11:05 am
With all the big hoohah in the grants community lately over OMB’s proposed grants reform guidance, one may have missed this nugget coming out of the General Services Administration, which could be very important to many of you out there.
February 6, 2013 – 9:23 am
If you didn’t get your fill of popcorn yesterday, here’s a second helping (we’re still on this food kick it seems!). Since publishing yesterday’s blog post about the Office of Management and Budget’s upcoming webcast on the new grants reform proposal,…