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 January 23, 2025 by Grants Works for its Federal Grant Insights newsletter on LinkedIn. In the Unleashing American Energy executive order (EO), the current president orders all agencies to “immediately pause the disbursement 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...
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....