Ever wish you had a FAQ guide to identify the major areas of grant monitoring risk? As a grant management professional, you probably know that you have responsibility for monitoring subrecipients to ensure the federal grant funds are spent appropriately. But what exactly does that look like? Here are seven areas of monitoring help you […]
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How to Select the Best Types of Contracts for Grants
When you are managing a grant, one of the decisions you may need to make is what type of contract to use for procurement of goods and services. And when that grant is a federal award, it becomes even more critical as the federal funding comes with rules and preferences about what types of contract […]
Happy International Grant Professional Day!
Join me March 8th, 2019 in celebrating International Grant Professional Day #IGPD! Can you say you have an international perspective when it comes to grants? I must say even though I work in the Federal grant realm, I wasn’t aware of the broad scope of people working around the world on grants until I started […]
Decoding Grant Management-Success Tip: Revision of Budget and Program Plans
Maybe I’m a dreamer, but I like to believe that it is rare that a grantee would intentionally misuse funds. However, without proper planning and documentation, an organization places itself at risk for misuse of funds. Prevention of these undesirable outcomes starts at the beginning of the grant application and writing process. Organizations that carefully construct […]
3 Tips for Coping with Questioned Federal Grant Costs
It can happen to the best of us. The auditors come in and start asking uncomfortable questions. Sometimes you can feel like you are on solid ground with your defense, but then… Oh, there’s the little item you missed in the award terms and conditions. Or maybe your notice of funding opportunity put in place […]
What’s In a Name? 5 Tips to Spot Subrecipients
One of the (many) things I found very confusing when I started working in the world of federal grant management was the way the terms subrecipient, subawardee, contractor, subcontractor, and vendor were bandied about-seemingly interchangeably. It didn’t’ matter if I was talking with my colleagues or the federal agency personnel, there always seemed to be lots […]