Defenestrated

Stacie Boyd leads NSF grants efforts, leaves OMB

Stacie Boyd has left her post as an OMB E-Gov portfolio manager to lead governmentwide grants management initiatives at the National Science Foundation. Tim Young will take over her responsibilities at OMB, which included Disaster Management, E-Vital, Geospatial One-Stop, Grants.gov and Project Safecom.

In her time at OMB, Stacie played a significant role in defining the future of Grants.gov and the Grants Management Line of Business. Her move to NSF is encouraging because it demonstrates a maturing of management and thought about GMLOB service centers.

Free DUNS, IRS validation, and CCR registration training, December 18

TCG is sponsoring some free training from the State of Maryland Governor's Grants Office. Here are the details. Attend if you can -- it promises to be a great program!

GRANTS ON THE LINE:
“How to successfully complete the Grants.gov registration process”

Monday, December 18
9am – 12noon

With electronic filing now the reality on all federal grants, this session will cover how the DUNS number system works, how the Central Contracting Registry is coordinating registration data, and how the IRS fits in…all before being able to complete the submission of a grant application on Grants.gov.

INSTRUCTORS: Brian Williams, Dun & Bradstreet
Bill Reed, Internal Revenue Service
Stan Dubowski, Central Contractor Registry
Vince Sprouls, Grants.gov

First come, first served for the first 200 who tap into the free web-cast starting promptly at 9:00 a.m., Monday, December 18 via www.gov.state.md.us/grants. No registration (or pre-registration) is required. There will be an opportunity to e-mail, fax, or call into the conference with your questions. Those who rsvp’d to participate on-site at Towson University will be part of the audience and a taped version of the training will be available (at no charge, through our website) beginning at 2 p.m. on December 18, and indefinitely afterwards.

We are grateful to our partners: Towson University and Maryland Public Television; and to our sponsors: Grantium, Inc., Dun & Bradstreet, Turner Consulting Group, and SAIC for making the conference and the web-cast possible, free of charge.

Technical Specifications required on your pc to view the web-cast:

For Mac Users: Mac OS X
For Windows Users: Windows 95 or later version, Internet Explorer 5.0 or later, or Firefox 1.0 or later, or Windows Media Player 6.4 or later (plus codec updates if required.)
You can test your software after December 11 via www.gov.state.md.us/grants and clicking on the example provided there.

At this time there remain a few available seats at the event. If interested, please contact the Maryland Governor’s Grants office at: [email protected] and ask for a registration form.