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Grants Management

Congratulations! You have been awarded a federal grant! Now the real work begins.

The Grants Office receives the Notice of Award from the federal awarding agency and distributes it to all appropriate leadership, program, and financial management contacts. The Office then schedules a meeting to bring the program and financial management personnel together to remind everyone what we proposed to do and plan the next steps. This ensures that the new grant project gets off to a running start.

The Grants Office maintains accounts in all of the federal grants management systems for FSSA grant awards. As needed, the office provides technical assistance for those systems as well as assistance with some administrative activities such as: key staff changes, budget revisions, sole source justifications, requests for additional information, submission of reports, etc.

The Grants Office also obtains SBA approval for all new funding source requests, both formula and discretionary grants, prior to the new federal fiscal year. The office coordinates with program staff to update and revise approval forms, as well as with federal funding staff who make the requests, to provide SBA with the information that they need to approve the new funding sources.