Welcome to Management Concepts’ Grants Blog.

We created this site as a tool to help you stay up to date on the latest information that affects the administration of federal grants and assistance programs. You’ll find posts about new governmentwide policies and directives, congressional activities, federal awarding agency issuances, answers to common grants management questions, and much more. We’ll also be passing along grants management tips, helpful resources, interesting facts and news briefs, and other tidbits that can help you in your daily work. And occasionally you’ll find a posting by a grants management subject matter expert who will share some real-life experiences, thoughts about current developments, and insights into federal grants management issues.

About the author…

My name is Lisa Hayes, and I’ll be posting most of the entries for the Management Concepts Grants Blog. I’m a curriculum developer in Management Concepts’ Grants division – which basically means I help write and update our training materials. One of my responsibilities is to constantly monitor developments affecting federal grants management, and this blog will offer me an opportunity to share some of that information with you. As we developed this blog, I envisioned that its contents would span three c’s: current, constructive, and casual. If you have questions or comments about anything you read on the blog, please feel free to email me at grantsblog@managementconcepts.com.

About Management Concepts…

Established in 1973, Management Concepts is a global provider of quality training programs in federal grants and assistance, acquisition and contracting, analytics, business analysis, financial management, leadership, professional skills, project management, and retirement planning.

For those who work with federal financial assistance programs, we provide a broad array of courses that address your practical and professional education needs. We offer the only comprehensive federal grants and assistance training curriculum available, with more than two dozen classroom and Internet-based courses focusing on governmentwide grants requirements and best practices to help federal awarding agencies, pass-through entities, and recipients effectively use scarce federal grant dollars. Representatives from federal, state, local, and Indian tribal governments; colleges and universities; nonprofit organizations; commercial organizations; and private individuals attend our courses.In addition, we offer the Grants Management Certificate Program™, an industry standard for grants professionals.

For more information about Management Concepts Grants training, visit us online at http://www.managementconcepts.com/grants. Information about our other training and consulting services is available on the homepage at http://www.managementconcepts.com.