You’ve may have heard about it Grant Management. The new grant regulations are making a risk assessment of Federal award recipients a requirement for Federal agencies prior to awarding any grants. In fact, proper documentation of your federal grant processes has become more important than ever! One of the reasons for this is that the […]
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7 Ways to Spot a Subrecipient Relationship
One of the grant management questions we get the most emails on is, “What is the difference between a subrecipient and a vendor?” Subrecipient vs. Contractor: What’s in a Name? The distinction between the terminology causes no end of confusion because the terms subrecipient, subgrantee, subawardee are used interchangeably by federal grant recipients and federal […]
3 Areas for Grant Management Improvement
I recently checked back following a shocking report on the condition of federal grant management in the City of Detroit following their bankruptcy. And I was so happy to see how they were turning around their lack of federal award compliance Not only are their efforts bearing fruit from a grant management improvement standpoint–but even […]
$7 Million Repayment Blues: City Readies Payback for Lack of Grant Management
A few years back I wrote a case study about mismanaged federal grant funds from a highly critical audit report criticizing a lack of grant management. The Baltimore Brew reported that the City of Baltimore was preparing to repay nearly $7 million in federal funding from a $9.5 million federal award earmarked to serve the […]
The Shocking Tale of Grant Management: 71 Programs-0- Compliance?
Ready for a grant compliance “comeback” story? A while back, I wrote about troubles that the City of Detroit had with federal grant compliance. The Detroit News reported that the Ford Foundation had donated $127,000 to review the City of Detroit’s federal grant management and recommend how to improve the grant administration process. At the […]
3 Surprising Reasons for More Grant Management Tools
We asked about grant management tools and boy, did we get an earful! (We conducted a short survey so we could better understand the needs of the grant management community.) Your responses confirmed the trend we are seeing across the grant profession and training industry. The most pressing need is for more grant management tools, not […]