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Welcome Grantee Recipients:
This website is designed as a simplified guide for non-profit leaders, finance (fiscal) staff, grant managers, auditors, and grants management accountants. You will gain a wealth of knowledge and technical expertise in managing your federal grant awards by Certified Grants Management Professionals with federal work experience. It will provide guidance on budgeting, compliance, reporting, audits, and closeout for federal grants, including the latest 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance updates (2CFR200).
Grant Sense (Mini-playbooks)
Session 1: What Expenses Can Be Included In Your Budget? - $74.99
Session 2: Understanding The Federal Financial Reports (FFRs) - $49.99
Session 2: Understanding The Federal Financial Reports (FFRs) - $49.99
✅ Identify allowable vs. unallowable costs
✅ Breakdown budget categories with justification
✅ Prepare a compliant SF-424A budget
✅ Write a budget narrative that aligns with program
Session 2: Understanding The Federal Financial Reports (FFRs) - $49.99
Session 2: Understanding The Federal Financial Reports (FFRs) - $49.99
Session 2: Understanding The Federal Financial Reports (FFRs) - $49.99
✅ Explain the purpose of the FFR (SF-425)
✅ Identify and report each key section:
cash, expenditures, match, program income
✅ Submit timely and accurate reports
✅ Reconcile reports with accounting records
✅ Avoid compliance issues by documenting and reporting properly
Session 3: How To Closeout Your Grant Award? - $64.99
Session 2: Understanding The Federal Financial Reports (FFRs) - $49.99
Session 4: Single Audits (When, How, and Why) - $69.99
✅ Explain the purpose of grant closeout
✅ Identify required closeout reports and forms
✅ Reconcile final expenditures with drawdowns
✅ Apply record retention requirements
✅ Use best practices to avoid delays in closeout
Session 4: Single Audits (When, How, and Why) - $69.99
Session 6: Advanced Budget And Narrative *Sample Detailed Budget Narrative Added - $119.99
Session 4: Single Audits (When, How, and Why) - $69.99
✅Explain what a Single Audit is and when it’s required
✅Understand audit components (financial + compliance)
✅Identify submission requirements and deadlines
✅Recognize common audit findings
✅Apply best practices to prepare and succeed
Session 5: How To Calculate And Apply Indirect Costs? - $64.99
Session 6: Advanced Budget And Narrative *Sample Detailed Budget Narrative Added - $119.99
Session 6: Advanced Budget And Narrative *Sample Detailed Budget Narrative Added - $119.99
✅ Explain the purpose of indirect costs
✅ Differentiate between NICRA and de minimis methods
✅ Calculate MTDC and apply indirect rates correctly
✅ Identify common mistakes and avoid them
✅ Provide appropriate budget narrative justification
Session 6: Advanced Budget And Narrative *Sample Detailed Budget Narrative Added - $119.99
Session 6: Advanced Budget And Narrative *Sample Detailed Budget Narrative Added - $119.99
Session 6: Advanced Budget And Narrative *Sample Detailed Budget Narrative Added - $119.99
✅ Link the budget-to-budget narrative
✅ Write clear, detailed justifications for all costs
✅ Demonstrate compliance with federal cost principles
✅ Learn best practices for writing narratives
✅ Apply advanced techniques to strengthen your proposal
Session 7: How To Drawdown Funds? - $44.99
Session 8: How To Document Expenses And Avoid Audits? - $39.99
Session 8: How To Document Expenses And Avoid Audits? - $39.99
✅ Explain the purpose of drawdowns
✅ Use PMS or ASAP to request funds correctly
✅ Maintain documentation to support drawdowns
✅ Avoid common mistakes in cash management
✅ Reconcile drawdowns with expenditures in FFRs
Session 8: How To Document Expenses And Avoid Audits? - $39.99
Session 8: How To Document Expenses And Avoid Audits? - $39.99
Session 8: How To Document Expenses And Avoid Audits? - $39.99
✅ Identify required documentation for common cost categories
✅ Establish practices to prevent unallowable costs
✅ Understand regulations governing financial management and internal controls
✅ Maintain audit-ready records at all times
✅ Apply best practices to avoid waste, fraud, and abuse
Session 9: What is Match? - $69.99
Session 8: How To Document Expenses And Avoid Audits? - $39.99
Session 10: What is SAM and How it ties to Grants?
✅ Define cash vs. in-kind match
✅ Calculate match requirements based on project cost
✅ Identify allowable contributions under 2 CFR 200
✅ Document and track match contributions properly
✅ Avoid common mistakes that lead to disallowed match
Session 10: What is SAM and How it ties to Grants?
Session 10: What is SAM and How it ties to Grants?
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