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A Post-Award Mindset for Pre-Award Grant Professionals

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grant award) quickly becomes a ball of string. Each string represents a critical compliance element necessary to manage grant awards, which is especially true for federal grant management. This checklist will help you become grant compliance warriors to be better prepared during the pre-award phase.

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Collaborative Grant Seeking and Management? Yes, Please!

Grant Professionals Association

Seek more information around why an organization is seeking grant funding, ask questions around the project components, and seek clarity around ambiguous information. Do research around grant projects or programs that entities seek to fund. Report back your findings and recommendations as a grant professional.

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You CAN Evaluate Your Program! How to Gather Data through Observation By: Michelle Dykes-Anderson, Ed. D, GPC, CFRE

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Observation is a method to gather data by watching events or behaviors that can give information beyond what you can draw from numbers and is helpful in several situations: To collect data that is unavailable through other methods. However, this can lead to ethical considerations like a need for informed consent and invasion of privacy.

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Certifications for the Grant Professional By: Kellie Brungard, GPC

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Below is an overview of professional credentials related to the grants profession and the requirements for obtaining them. Certified Grants Management Specialist (CGMS) There are just over 300 CGMS professionals at the end of 2023; only five have also received their GPC, including two AGS staff.

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New Rules in Procurement – Managing the Award towards the Finish Line

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It is no surprise that with all the fast-moving federal funding that has been distributed over the past few years, those who receive federal awards may not be aware of all of the rules pertaining to award management. When it comes to post-award grants management, a huge focus area (and an area ripe with single audit findings) is procurement.

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You CAN Evaluate Your Program! How to Conduct an Environmental Scan and Needs Analysis (Part 1 of 11) By: Michelle Dykes-Anderson, Ed.D, GPC, CFRE

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Inform program strategic planning—outcomes, activities, services, policies, and procedures—resulting in improved performance. Only ask for information that you need and that you were unable to answer using other methods. Use this information to inform strategic planning and ongoing decision-making processes.

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AGS’ Guide to GrantSummit: Kansas City by Kellie Brungard, GPC

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GPA has more information on these in the frequently asked questions section and a helpful YouTube video. Tracks include consulting, evaluation and collaboration, federal grants, grants management and budgets, proposal development and communications strategies, and prospect research and donor relations.

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