If you’re a grant manager, sponsored research administrator, or another aptly titled post-award specialist, you likely have had to cite regulations or award terms to provide additional clarity about a specific requirement. I recently had to cite several areas of...
On October 5, 2023, the Office of Management and Budget released proposed changes to revise several sections of OMB Guidance for Grants and Agreements to integrate statutory requirements and administration priorities, reduce agency and recipient burden, clarify and...
Imagine you’re surrounded by darkness as you’re steering a ship at night and suddenly you see a light in the distance. You maneuver the ship toward the light and as you approach, it gets brighter and brighter. You realize the light is from a beacon atop a lighthouse....
Let’s start by defining a passthrough entity. A passthrough entity (PTE) is a non-federal entity that provides a subaward to a recipient to carry out part of a federal program. If you are a PTE of a federal grant, there are prescribed requirements you must...
If you are a federal grantee and you have subawardees, you may have questions about how to select, manage, and monitor subawardees. If you are a subawardee of a federal grant, you may want to know more about your responsibilities. What is a subaward? According to...
The Inflation Reduction Act is described by the current administration as a “promise to build an economy that works for working families.” But, what is in the Inflation Reduction Act and what does it have to do with grants? First, grants are not the only funding...
