In the Beginning-MyFedTrainer.com
To honor our first 10 years as one of the premier federal grant management training companies, I pulled this post out of moth-balls that I wrote when I first started the company.
What is an Advance?
An advance for a federal grant is a payment method where the funder pays the non-Federal entity in advance of spending the grant funds. (Doesn’t that sound better than waiting […]
What is a Contract?
When it comes to federal grant management, these terms award, subaward and contract are NOT interchangeable. And when grant recipients AND funders and federal regulations seem to use them in that way it is SLOPPY communication.
How Transparent is Your Organization?
Transparency in the News Transparency has been in the news a lot lately! It might even feel like that expecting transparency with federal funding is the norm. In truth, the […]
Happy International Grant Professional Day!
International Grant Professional Day #IGPD is a reason to celebrate our profession! Can you say you have an international perspective when it comes to grants? I must say even though […]
Why Should You Care About Grant Compliance?
In November 2012 President Obama signed the Whistleblower Protection Enhancement Act of 2012. (WPEA) This piece of legislation significantly improved the whistleblower protections for federal whistleblowers. Whistleblowers play a critical […]