By Gayle Warner, Director of Grants and Program Strategy Why is program evaluation important? My 25-year nonprofit career challenged me to develop programs that would impact a person’s life – whether it was about finishing high school and/or being the first-generation graduate from college. Often, I worked hand in hand with local and national foundations [...]
The federal Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released the Super Circular on December 26, 2013. This briefing report reviews the most significant regulations and their effect on recipients of federal awards. Make sure to read OMB Super Circular: What You Need to Know thoroughly.
By Jill Bennett Iman, JVA Consulting Last week I wrote about the alignment between personal priorities and funding priorities, but I also hinted that shifting (federal) funding streams to match individual concerns can be an arduous battle, as evidenced by the difficulty simply getting a yearly budget passed, let alone dramatically shifting where the dollars [...]
By Julia Alvarez, JVA Consulting Last Thursday, JVA hosted a panel to discuss the federal sequester and the current budget situation, and to learn what they mean for nonprofits. While the information shared by Congressional panelists left many participants feeling uncertain (at best) of the future of federal funding, I also left the panel feeling [...]