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3 Ways Grant Management Software Supports Compliance

AmpliFund

APRIL 30, 2024

In wrapping up our latest webinar series , I shared insights into how a grant management system, specifically, AmpliFund, plays a vital role in supporting compliance. Here are 3 ways grant management software supports compliance: 1. Imagine this: You’re trying to find an important form for one of your awards.

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How to Successfully Close Out an Award

AmpliFund

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

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.  Other resources can help too. (Check out our Award Closeout Checklist.)

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Your Cheat Sheet to Better Grant Budgeting & Financial Reporting

AmpliFund

MARCH 13, 2024

In our recent webinar, I detailed ways to improve grant budgeting and ease financial reporting. Key considerations for your budget planning process: Strong financial planning in the early grant stages sets the stage for successful program implementation and reporting. Photo by kanchanachitkhamma from Canva.

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Choosing the Right Path: ERP + GMS

AmpliFund

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Unfortunately, w hile ERP systems offer a broad range of functionalities to manage various aspects of business operations, their grant management capabilities are not robust enough to enable most organizations to properly manage grant funding. So how does an ERP benefit grants management ? My recommendation.

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

AmpliFund

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Over the past year, grant professionals have turned to our resources for guidance to deal with the challenges they face managing grants. Grant Management Centralization Guide Centralization is not just a best practice; it has become fundamental to keep programs in compliance and teams functioning efficiently.

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Five Grant Recipient Monitoring Best Practices

AmpliFund

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Monitoring your organization’s grant recipients is crucial for accurately measuring outcomes and making informed decisions for future funding. While you may not be able to control everything, you can put best practices in place for monitoring grant recipients—and this can have a big impact on the success and sustainability of funded projects.

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IIJA Explainer: Leveraging Available Funds

AmpliFund

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Funds have been distributed at the expected pace with competitive grants taking longer than formula or direct spending. 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. To tackle this successfully, consider two areas of focus: 1.

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3 Tips for Managing Grants

AmpliFund

JUNE 12, 2023

We know that managing grants can be confusing, and we’re here to help. When you don’t have an effective strategy in place to manage and store your grant data and documents, it is easy to make mistakes. In some cases, they can result in having to pay back the award. Helps you stick to the project timeline.

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Save Time and Effort by Standardizing Data Collection

AmpliFund

AUGUST 16, 2023

When the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) introduced revisions to the Uniform Grant Guidance (UGG) in 2020, there was a notable focus on performance. After the UGG revisions, federal grant awarding agencies must provide recipients with performance plans, and recipients, in turn, must report to these agencies on their performance.

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Best Practices for Creating New Opportunities with a Grants Management System

AmpliFund

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

We know many grant makers publish new funding opportunities in the spring, and using purpose-built tools to create and manage them saves organizations a lot of time and effort. Grants management software like AmpliFund gives you unlimited application forms, sections, and questions that you can use to build out applications.

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The Top 10 Resources of 2022

AmpliFund

DECEMBER 19, 2022

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. Read more #6 – Congratulations on Becoming a Grants Manager.

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3 Ways to Improve Your Chances of Winning Federal Infrastructure Funding

AmpliFund

JANUARY 30, 2023

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. Prioritize projects that have the potential to be sustained after the grant funding ends. Assess the capacity needed for each project.

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OMB’s 2023 Compliance Supplement: Updates & Changes

AmpliFund

JUNE 16, 2023

OMB worked with federal agencies to provide additional guidelines, clarifications, and expectations for federal grant recipients, pass-through entities, and auditors. It’s relevant to note that federal awarding agencies are encouraged to continue to focus grants management on both compliance and program performance.

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Preparing to Manage Your Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act Funding

AmpliFund

JANUARY 3, 2023

Grant programs across the country have an unprecedented opportunity to construct vital infrastructure for their communities with the $1 trillion in funding from the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA). The IIJA has created and begun awarding new formula and competitive grants, and many existing grant programs will receive a boost.

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