FEDERAL GRANTS SERIES: EVALUATION AND BUDGET

SESSION 3 of the FEDERAL GRANTS SERIES
Cost: $150/session
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These half-day, interactive sessions are designed to support nonprofit professionals before and during their first federal grant.

You’ll learn: 

• When an evaluator must be outside of the program versus outside of the organization
• What are common evaluation services for federal grants
• Where can quality evaluators be found
• What factors should be considered when selecting an evaluator
• How to align service expectations with cost realities
• How to ensure potentially challenging issues are placed into contracts
• The most common federal budget categories
• How to fill out budget forms for the most commons federal departments (Department of Education, Department of Justice, Department of Health and Human Services, National Institute of Health, and the National Science Foundation.
• The most common errors made with each type of form
• The federal definitions of reasonable, allowable, and allocable
• How to justify all of the federal categories using these definitions
• How to ensure your post-award documentation continues to document these areas so expenditures are not rejected by local and federal auditors.

Includes the following sections:

• External Evaluators
• Standard Budget Forms
• Federal Grant Budget Justifications
• Federal Research Grant Budget  Justifications

View the Federal Series Sessions by GPCI Competency

Join our new Federal Grants Community of grant professionals who are just like you seeking advice and someone to ask questions when the federal program officers don’t or won’t answer. AGS’ Communities are moderated by credentialed grant professionals who have been awarded millions in federal grant funding. Our grant experts can guide you and your faculty through the entire grant lifecycle, from planning to reporting.

CEUs

This training aligns with the Grant Professional Certification Institute’s Competencies and Skills and is approved for 3.5 Continuing Education Unit (CEU). Full participation in this training is also applicable for 3.5 points in Category 1.B – Education of the CFRE International application for initial certification and/or recertification.

The trainers for these sessions are all credentialed grant professionals (GPCs) through the Grant Professional Certification Institute, Approved Trainers with the Grant Professionals Association, and experts with multiple federal grant departments. All of the trainings in this series align with the Grant Professionals Certification Institute’s competencies and skills and will be approved for Continuing Education Units (CEU) by GPCI and CFRE International.

Cost: $150/session or $600 for the full series of four sessions

The following training courses are available as scheduled half-day live, interactive webinars, recorded individual trainings, bundled trainings, and custom scheduled trainings. To register for the complete series or for individual sessions:

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