Grants Management Articles

In this Hero Highlight, we sat down with eCivis’ Customer Success Manager, Kailee Wolterstorff. At eCivis, her role is to advise clients on how they can save time and hassle when it comes to finding and managing grants through their grant management systems.

2021 drove home the need for grant modernization in a new and urgent way.

If you’re a state, local or tribal government agency that is seeking to secure and properly manage federal and/or non-federal grants, you know it's getting increasingly harder without technology. Investing in modern grants management software today is no longer an option, it is a necessary step to keep up with today's demands and changing federal requirements. 

Have you heard it? There has been a lot of chatter about the changes to procurement with the advent of 2 CFR Part 200 (aka Uniform Guidance). And it’s true that this section of the Administrative Requirements has changed more than any other part of the new grant regulations.

It is time to revisit supplanting vs. supplementing with examples from the Office of Justice Programs (OJP).

But you may supplement. If you’ve ever read through a NOFA from the Department of Education, chances are you’ve come across the clause stating that federal funding may “supplement, but not supplant,” state/local funding. But what exactly does that mean?

The grant close-out process is the responsibility of both the funding agency and the awardee, but award recipients can/should take steps to ensure an effective close-out, making everyone—funding agencies, auditors, and especially taxpayers—happy.

The kick-off meeting is an opportunity to gather your energized grant team and discuss the project you are about to collectively tackle. This article provides an overview of grants management goals for the kick-off meeting and useful tools to ensure a successful endeavor.

As a department or organization striving to initiate or enhance its grant-writing capacity, it is important to understand your baseline expertise and establish realistic targets. This article identifies a simple 1-2-3 action plan to establish goals that measure success when starting from scratch.

Organizations that include grant funding in their strategic planning and goal setting processes can benefit from a comprehensive system that assists staff in the development of proposals as well as grants management.