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1:00 pm EDT | August 30 Do you understand what employees can and cannot do during a funding gap and government shutdown? Join us for a refresher on the do’s and don’ts of conducting business during a Continuing Resolution.
August 8-9 | September 20-21 | October 17-18 | December 1-2 Grants management is a partnership. To be successful, grantees and grantors must work together and understand each other. Communication between grantees and grantors is a critical—and often overlooked—part of effective stewardship of grant funds. This course will look at how to build relationships, understand other points of view, and communicate effectively. You will develop an understanding of the importance of managing relationships to improve the performance of federal grants.
September 15-16 | October 19-20 | November 14-15 | December 19-20 Grants management is a partnership. To be successful, grantees and grantors must work together and understand each other. Communication between grantees and grantors is a critical—and often overlooked—part of effective stewardship of grant funds. This course will look at how to build relationships, understand other points of view, and communicate effectively. You will develop an understanding of the importance of managing relationships to improve the performance of federal grants.
August 1-2 | September 14-15 | October 17-18 | November 16-17 | December 14-15 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that billions in Federal grant awards are susceptible to waste, fraud, and abuse. Grant recipients and other grants personnel must be vigilant in detecting and preventing fraud in grant administration. You will gain an understanding of potential fraud risks inherent in various programs and entities and learn techniques to mitigate those risks. Case studies will enhance your learning, enabling you to practice identifying and preventing fraudulent activities.This is an elective course in all tracks of the GMCP™.
July 21-22 | August 4-5 | August 18-19 | August 29-30 | September 29-30 You will develop working familiarity with a risk-based approach to monitoring, apply techniques for assessing recipients, and gain insight into potential problem areas in grants administration. These insights inform how you can ensure proper spending of Federal funds on approved activities. This is a core course in the Federal Track of the GMCP™ and is frequently scheduled with Introduction to Grants and Cooperative Agreements for Federal Personnel.
July 27-28 | August 10-11 (Classroom: Denver, CO)
11 a.m. ET / 8 a.m. PT | July 28 How do you know you have a connected team? How do you build trust and foster engagement for optimal performance? Join us Thursday, July 28 at 11 a.m. ET as our panel addresses how to cultivate awareness and improve engagement on your team. Managers and employees will learn how to:
This interactive discussion will feature Mika J. Cross, Jen Marr and Ray Crawford, all prominent workplace experts bringing years of insight and experience.
August 10-11 | September 15-16 | October 3-4 | November 2-3 Auditors, funders and recipients need to understand how well federal grants are managed and perform. Audits provide a mechanism for monitoring grants, ensuring that recipients meet financial and performance goals, and correct issues. You will build foundational knowledge of the audit process, and examine several audit types, including the single audit. You will also examine roles, responsibilities and relationships of all those involved in audits, as well as a comprehensive view of all parties’ perspectives.
August 12 | August 26 | September 15 This one-day course is designed to help grant professionals stay up to date on the changing regulatory and legislative requirements for managing grants. This course reviews the significant updates made to 2 CFR 200 in 2020, as well as the effects of legislation including the CARES Act and American Rescue Plan.
August 19 | September 12 | October 7 | November 4 Ethics training for federal agency grants personnel is not only vital to effectively monitoring awards,it is also required by law. The Office of Government Ethics requires federal agencies to provide annual ethics training for all employees. You will go beyond basic ethics training and learn about standards of conduct, managing and avoiding conflicts of interest, privacy protection requirements and lobbying restrictions within the context of federal grants.
August 1-2 | August 22-23 | September 21-22 | October 3-4 | October 11-12 | November 21-22 | December 19-20 Internal controls are integral to effective grants management. In order to conduct effective internal controls, grants managers need a foundational knowledge of Government Accountability Office (GAO) standards, risk management and requirements outlined in 2 CFR 200. You will practice applying these concepts by reviewing sample policies for compliance and developing an internal control process to use on the job.
August 8-9 | September 8-9 | November 7-8 | December 12-13 Grant funders, both federal and pass-through, need tools and know-how to assess the financial capabilities of their recipients — before, during and after a federal grant award. The ability to know when and how to evaluate recipients, conduct risk assessments, and monitor activities through financial statements, audit reports, and cost analysis is vital to both a recipient’s success and yours. You will learn to apply effective methods and leverage the tools and resources to take on the responsibility of protecting grant funds.
August 1-2 | September 14-15 | October 17-18 | November 16-17 | December 14-15 The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has found that billions in federal grant awards are susceptible to waste, fraud and abuse. Grant recipients and other grants personnel must be vigilant in detecting and preventing fraud in grant administration. You will gain an understanding of potential fraud risks inherent in various programs and entities and learn techniques to mitigate those risks. Case studies will enhance your learning, enabling you to practice identifying and preventing fraudulent activities.
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This introductory course provides core knowledge and practice exercises for participants to directly operate Microsoft Project 2016. Participants use the software to develop a usable project plan, schedule tasks, manage project resources and more. Participants navigate the Microsoft Project 2016 environment by defining a new project plan, organizing and linking project tasks, optimizing the critical path, setting the project baseline, adding and managing resources to the project plan, setting up resource calendars, resolving resource conflicts, customizing Gantt charts, creating timelines, custom reports and more.managment analysis.
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3 p.m. ET | August 10 Recipients of the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund, created under the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 (Public Law 117-2), may provide critically needed pandemic response and recovery services directly or by making subawards to nonprofits and other private sector subrecipients. Recipients may obligate SLFRF funds through the end of 2024. Program rules require recipients to manage and monitor their subrecipients to ensure compliance with SLFRF award conditions.
Join us for this webinar as we discuss the return of earmarks to the Congressional appropriations process. We will cover what earmarks are, a look at the terms and conditions imposed by HHS and other federal agencies in administering Congressional earmarks and thoughts about how your Institution should formulate a strategy for getting on the list so to speak.
A three-day overview of the federal grants system, covering everything from the legal underpinnings of the system through procurement and subaward requirements, cost issues, and audit resolution.
Fundamentally, a grant from the federal government is simply an agreement by the government to reimburse a non-federal entity for certain costs of certain activities. The limits of the government’s agreement are expressed primarily through the federal cost principles and are defined as “allowable costs.” Join FTLF Partner Scott S. Sheffler to evaluate and discuss the scope and limitations on reimbursable costs and key risk areas inherent in this system.
Treasury’s SLFRF program Final Rule, effective April 1, 2022, reiterated that recipients of the State and Local Fiscal Recovery Fund may pay for programs or services that address housing insecurity, lack of affordable housing, or homelessness. Program rules require compliance with capital expenditure rules, procurement and management requirements and additional reporting requirements for applicable to certain housing expenditures.
One of the most challenging compliance obligations of federal grantees is ensuring that they charge only “allocable” costs to their federal awards. At its core a very straightforward concept, in practice, cost allocation can prove a complex endeavor. From direct allocation, through cost allocation plans and federally approved indirect cost rate agreements, an understanding of cost allocation principles aids grantees in efficiently and properly recovering project costs from the federal government. Join FTLF Partner Scott S. Sheffler to build from cost allocation basics to intermediate allocation concepts, examine practical examples and walk through the indirect rate agreement negotiation process.
Based upon straightforward principles of competition and transparency, the federal procurement standards are one of the areas of the federal grant management regulations that contains numerous specific rules and remains an area of compliance focus for auditors and agency reviewers. In this webinar, FTLF Partner Scott S. Sheffler will concisely address procurement considerations, building from the underlying legal principles to the key specific regulatory requirements.
Though technically distinct regulatory concepts, the issues of cost share and program income are two sides of the same coin in the federal-grantee relationship. This webinar will discuss the key requirements relating to each, including common compliance considerations. To truly control one’s cost share and program income situation, one must build from their existing knowledge base of allowable costs and cost allocation to clearly define relevant “scopes of grant projects” within their own corporate structure.
The federal grant management requirements take into account, and are even derived in many ways, from related concepts in federal tax regulations and not-for-profit corporate governance structures. The relationship can often be seen when preparing one’s IRS Form 990 or considering the establishment of a subsidiary for-profit or not-for-profit affiliate. In this webinar, FTLF Partners Scott S. Sheffler and Michael B. Glomb will discuss common areas of overlap and the relationship between the two, including areas where similar terminology may have different meanings or where adopting consistent approaches can simplify practices and where transactions with affiliates may have additional implications.
A three-day overview of the federal grants system, covering everything from the legal underpinnings of the system through procurement and subaward requirements, cost issues, and audit resolution.
In an era of heightened federal funding agency scrutiny, research grant administrators must understand the federal research grant framework. Over two days, FTLF attorneys will cover the essential research grant lifecycle, including compliance risks, concerns, and strategies. From pre-award planning through closeout and audits, our attorneys will discuss the current issues research institutions face and the latest developments in grant law.
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Mon Aug 22, 2022Management Concepts: Cost Principles For Federal Grants: 2 CFR Part 200 (Subpart E) And FAR 31.2 Category: Partner Events |
Mon Aug 29, 2022Management Concepts: Monitoring Grants And Cooperative Agreements For Federal Personnel Category: Partner Events |
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