Preparing for a grant audit can be quite intimidating. I can recall spending countless hours at work, sometimes even staying the night, creating new report templates, performing data quality checks, reading last minute updates to the Federal Register, finalizing budget narratives, and updating performance measures. Grant writing professionals are generally regarded as first-line technical assistance… Continue reading 3 Lessons Learned: Grant Auditing
Here are some tips to help you develop a competitive and creative grant or project budget. Many of these tips apply to nonprofit organizations, to include those organized as charities, membership or trade associations and chambers of commerce, and private businesses alike. This list is published, in part, to provide a fresh perspective and to… Continue reading 3 Tips For Developing a Grant or Project Budget
Here are some tips to help you prevent common elements of breach to most grant contract awards. Often, the environment that may have once fostered the innovation of a grant project changes and instead works against that innovation and jeopardizes a grant project’s success. The reality of the impossibility of grant project success comes when plans do… Continue reading The Impossibility of Grant Project Success
What will it take to improve diversity at conferences? We know diversity in teams is the key to innovation and makes us smarter. This panel with Tiffany Haddish discussed ways to incorporate diversity into conferences and other public events. We must acknowledge the systematic barriers holding back people of color from being recognized as experts. It has long been evident… Continue reading San Antonio Black Entrepreneurs, Experts Who Can Speak at Your Next Event
SMART goal-setting is attributed to George T. Doran, a consultant and author of “There’s a S.M.A.R.T. Way to Write Management’s Goals and Objectives” (1981). In the paper, he offered SMART in the following way: Specific – target a specific area for improvement. Measurable – quantify or at least suggest an indicator of progress. Assignable –… Continue reading Agile SM(A)RT Goal-Setting
