Federal Grant Resources

Compilation of all webinars hosted by LCI on all aspects of federal grants, including pre-application steps like grant writing and post-award grant management compliance.

Webinar providing a high-level overview of Title VI requirements and resources to support the development of your organization’s equity strategy and Title VI plan.

Guidance on funding opportunities within the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA)/Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL), and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). This session includes best practices for vetting, preparing, and applying for funding, as well as the benefits of intergovernmental coordination.

High-level overview of administrative costs that are permitted for ARPA State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds and the designation of direct and indirect costs, including de minimis total modified direct costs. Through examples and discussion, this training session provides key compliance considerations for grant administration.

Overview training in the Compliance Supplement Addendum, focus on Single Audit Basics: Threshold, Auditor Focus, and Preparation, and provide specifics for vendors and beneficiaries. Includes best practice for internal controls.

Understand how to build a budget for a federal grant funded project. Topics include the most common federal budget categories; how to fill out budget forms for the most commons federal departments; the federal definitions of reasonable, allowable, and allocable; how to justify all of the federal categories using these definitions; and how to ensure your post-award documentation continues to document these areas so expenditures are not rejected by local and federal auditors.

Effectively plan and design a federal grant project. Topics include how to design and run a series of proposal design meetings, tools to get consensus and information about project activities quickly, clear definitions of evidence-based and research-based programming, and commonly used evidence levels.

Identify potential organizations who could make strong collaborative partners, how to build initial relationships between organizations, the level of involvement of partners in program design and proposal creation, and the level of financial compensation and commitment of partners in grant budgets.

Guidance from the U.S. Department of the Treasury on Coronavirus State and Local Fiscal Recovery Funds (CSLFRF) from the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) and how to implement grant management best practices.

Understand the major trends in federal funding, how to research federal grants and track your research, how to read and understand a federal RFP, and how to present and discuss federal opportunities with your organization.

Unexpected circumstances can arise during federal grant implementation. Delve into common issues that arise when plans change, and how to best address change through the amendment process that requires approval by awarding agencies.

Provisions in the Uniform Guidance that require written policies and procedures, and presents other suggestions for updating policies and procedures including templates.

Updated procurement provisions of the Uniform Guidance for 2020-21

Changes in requirements of the Uniform Guidance made in 2020 and 2021

Plans Technical assistance about requirements for indirect costs and cost allocation plans

Overview of the logic model used by several federal agencies and private funders

Changes in federal grant requirements for 2020

Introduction to the preparation of a competitive research grant application and other grantmaking and grant management resources

Information on the Single Audit Update on common audit findings and how to avoid them