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Learn how to budget, track, and report federal funds correctly—
without audit risk or compliance confusion.
Led by a Certified Grants Management Professional with 30+ years of federal experience.
This website provides simplified guidance to help organizations successfully manage federal grants and strengthen compliance.
Who These Training Sessions Are For
These digital playbooks are designed for:
✔ Nonprofit program managers
✔ Fiscal staff responsible for grant budgets
✔ New grants managers learning federal requirements
✔ Organizations managing federal awards for the first time
✔ Teams preparing for audits or grant closeout
What You Will Gain From These Sessions
Each session includes practical tools that can be applied immediately:
✔ Budget development examples
✔ Indirect cost calculation guidance
✔ Federal Financial Report walkthroughs
✔ Compliance checklists
✔ Real-life grants management scenarios
✔ Strategies to reduce audit risk
These guides were developed by a Certified Grants Management Professional with over 30 years of federal grants management experience in budgeting, financial reporting, compliance, and grant closeout, including the latest 2024 updates to the Uniform Guidance updates (2CFR200).
Whether you need a single session or a complete training series,
we offer flexible options to support your organization.
Each mini playbook is a digital download of self-paced training sessions, but together they form a powerful playbook for learning financial aspects of grants. Inside, you'll find checklists, reviewer tips, mini-exercises, and real-life examples that you can apply immediately to strengthen your knowledge of grants.
You’ll learn:
✅ Identify allowable vs. unallowable costs
✅ Breakdown budget categories with justification
✅ Prepare a compliant SF-424A budget
✅ Write a budget narrative that aligns with program
You’ll learn:
✅ 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
You’ll learn:
✅ 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
You’ll learn:
✅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
You’ll learn:
✅ 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
You’ll learn:
✅ 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
You’ll learn:
✅ 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
You’ll learn:
✅ 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
You’ll learn:
✅ 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
Before Your Grant Is Approved…
Your SAM Registration Is Reviewed.
You’ll learn:
✅ What reviewers actually check in SAM
✅ How risk is assessed under 2 CFR 200.206
✅ Common issues that delay funding
✅ How exclusions, debt, and certifications are reviewed
✅ Where responsibility & integrity (FAPIIS) comes into play
✅ How to avoid red flags before submission

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INCLUDES:
- What Expenses Can Be Included In Your Budget
- Understanding Federal Financial Reports
- How to Closeout Your Grant Award
- How to Calculate and Apply Indirect Costs
- How to Document Expenses and Avoid Audits
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- Understanding Federal Financial Reports
- How to Closeout Your Grant Award
- Single Audits (When, How, & Why)
- How to Calculate and Apply Indirect Costs
- How to Drawdown Funds
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- How to Closeout Your Grant Award
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- How to Calculate and Apply Indirect Costs
- Advanced Budgets and Narratives
- How to Drawdown Funds
- How to Document Expenses and Avoid Audits
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