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How to Successfully Close Out an Award

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Award closeout is a vital part of the grant lifecycle. It’s when you gather all documentation you’ve created during the life of the award to be compliant with reporting requirements and ensure all expenditures are accounted for. Check out our Award Closeout Checklist.)  Other resources can help too.

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Choosing the Right Path: ERP + GMS

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T o benefit from this information, a grant manager needs a good grant management system ( GMS ) , such as AmpliFund , that takes that data from the ERP system, brings it into the GMS , and adds value as necessary by adding additional data elements, such as performance and recipient data, needed for detailed and compliant grant management.

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Your Cheat Sheet to Better Grant Budgeting & Financial Reporting

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When it comes to reporting requirements and financial management, I touched on the impact of Uniform Guidance, agency guidance, and the specific award documentation. Then consider how your budget and plans impact each stage of your grant lifecycle—and how each phase impacts your budget and plans.

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IIJA Explainer: Leveraging Available Funds

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1 The good news for governments of all sizes is that as of the act’s two-year anniversary in November, 80% of competitive funding had yet to be awarded. Let’s take a look at both—how to access IIJA grant funds and how to manage your awards to maximize and demonstrate the impact of the IIJA funding.

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In Case You Missed it: Our Top Grant Management Learning Resources of 2023

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This guide provides recommendations and resources for enhancing your organization’s risk assessment procedures—including a pre-award risk assessment template and a subrecipient monitoring risk assessment tool to use as a starting point. Sub-Recipient Monitoring Checklist It's critical to ensure that your subrecipients are in compliance.

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The Top 10 Resources of 2022

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Grant professionals from various sectors turned to AmpliFund this year for guidance on grants best practices, ensuring they’re in the best position to stay compliant, and resources to help them understand Federal funding.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Winning Federal Infrastructure Funding

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You can take concrete steps to improve your chances of receiving these awards, but getting the right information for a winning proposal may require a different approach than your program typically uses. Organizations that start preparing their project proposals now will be at a significant advantage later. Take lead remediation, for example.