Federal Grants Deep Dive: Benefit-Cost Analysis in Grant Applications

Published Date: March 31, 2026

FY 2024–2025 BRIC NOFO Released 

Published Date: March 26, 2026

Can You Liquidate ARPA Expenses After December 31, 2026? 

Published Date: March 16 , 2026

BABA Compliance for BEAD - Funded Broadband Builds: What ISPs Need to Know (and Do)  

Published Date: March 4 , 2026

Federal oversight is entering a new phase

Published Date: February 13 , 2026

State Readiness for the Next Era of Federal Financial Assistance

Published Date: February 6 , 2026

Why State and Local Grant Teams Are Struggling — and Why It Isn’t Their Fault

Published Date: January 22, 2026

Why Today’s Federal Financial Assistance Environment Demands Forward-Thinking, Not “How We’ve Always Done It

Published Date: January 16, 2026

Fraud Is Now a National Enforcement Priority: What Federal Grantees Must Do Next

Published Date: January 8, 2026

Why the Minnesota Federal Aid Fraud Case Is a Wake-Up Call — Including for ARPA-CSLFRF Recipients

Published Date: December 30, 2025

Grants Were Never Meant to Fix Bad Government

Published Date: December 10 , 2025

2025 ARPA-SLFRF: This Isn’t Your Father’s Grant Program

Published Date: December 9 , 2025

The Grants Pendulum Isn’t About Money — It’s About the W’s

Published Date: December 5 , 2025

Beyond Ethics: Confronting Our Biases as Grant Professionals

Published Date: December 3 , 2025

Preparing ISPs for BEAD Subrecipient Agreements: What to Expect and How to Get Ready

Published Date: December 2 , 2025

The Goals Remain the Same: Continuing the Work of Community Impact while Navigating the False Claims Act  

Published Date: November 4, 2025

When Inefficiency Becomes a Business Model: Why States Must Break the “Tacit Knowledge” Cycle in Grants

Published Date: November 4, 2025

Termination-for-Convenience in Grants: What Recipients Should Do Now—and Next

Published Date: October 24, 2025

ARPA-SLFRF: Re-Obligate Now or Risk Leaving Money on the Table

Published Date: October 20, 2025

The Critical Need to Modernize State & Local Payment Processing: A Guide from Submittable and Witt O'Brien's

Published Date: October 13, 2025

Cutting Grants → Cutting People: Why Program Eliminations Precede Federal RIFs (and What Recipients Must Do Now)

Published Date: October 12, 2025

A Looming Federal Shutdown: Last-Minute Moves for State & Local Grant Programs

Published Date: September 30, 2025

ARPA SLFRF Annual Reporters: Use October to Prep for the April 30, 2026 Report

Published Date: September 29, 2025

Why a “Clean” CR Is Bad News—and Why a Shutdown Is Worse (Plus the Scenario Plan You Need)

Published Date: September 23, 2025

Why Every City Needs an Annual Grant Plan

Published Date: September 17, 2025

AI in GovTech Shouldn’t Just Replicate—It Should Reinvent

Published Date: September 10, 2025

The New Reality of Federal Funding: Why States and Locals Must Track Real, Pocket, and Process Rescissions

Published Date: September 3, 2025

Enhancing Grant Streamlining: The Impact of the 2025 Executive Order on Federal Grantmaking

Published Date: August 7, 2025

Why Grant Deadline Pressure Increases Potential Fraud Risk

Published Date: July 31, 2025

Ensuring Compliance with Federal Antidiscrimination Laws: What Government Grantees and Contractors Need to Know 

Published Date: July 31, 2025