Decoding Grant Management-Success Tip: Allowable Costs
I had a conversation with a dedicated and innovative engineer about how to receive funding for his organization, which builds specially designed 3D printers to create prosthetic hands for children […]
Decoding Grant Management-Success Tip: Types of Federal Awards
Does the idea of decoding grant management make you feel unsettled? (Maybe even a little anxious as you pour through all the grant regulations?) Since the founding of the United […]
Decoding Grant Management-Success Tip: Subrecipient Monitoring
One of the (many) things I found very confusing when I started working in the world of federal grant management is the way the terms subrecipient, subawardee, contractor, subcontractor, and […]
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.