The Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking Executive Order (EO) released by the White House on August 7, 2025 lays out new guidelines on how grant funding opportunity announcements (FOAs) will be monitored and released, how federal grant applications will be...
This post was originally published on April 12, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn. Why Do Universities Receive Federal Grants? Universities, particularly top research universities such as Columbia, Johns Hopkins University,...
This post was originally published on February 25, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn. As the country learns more about the DOGE team’s access to government systems, we may find ourselves faced with three questions: Who is...
This post was originally published on February 18, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn. USAID is becoming more and more of a household name these days because it is the first agency that has been significantly restructured by the...
As a new federal grantee, there are certain pitfalls you must avoid. One of the pitfalls is focusing solely on the programmatic output of the funded project without ensuring your organization’s financial management systems are reinforced. Below are five of...
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...
