OVERVIEW

Through I Maga’låhen Guåhan’s (the Governor of Guam’s) Executive Order 2007-04, the Guam State Clearinghouse (GSC) has been tasked to provide training opportunities to public-sector employees in the application of federal financial aid; grants management training; consistency review training in federal and local laws, regulations, Executive Order requirements; and, in the assessments related to the effectiveness and performance of existing and continuing grant programs, solicit the expertise and participation of government employees trained and experienced in federal financial assistance, grants management, and related technical activities.

 

Individuals are encouraged to visit the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA), which is an online federal resource on grants and grants information. One feature of this site is called Developing And Writing Grant Proposals. It covers such topics as developing and writing a successful grant proposal, development of budgets, goals, and outcomes.

RESOURCE MATERIALS

 

Federal Programs-Accountability and Audit Conference Summary Report

Final Conference Proceedings [view]

 

A.  Letter of invitation from Mr. Nikolao Pula, Director, Office of Insular Affairs, Department of Interior [view]

 

B. Official list of conference participants from the Government of Guam [view]

 

C. Federal Programs, Fiscal Year 2008 Budget Proposal by Executive Branch [view]

 

D. Summary of Talking Points for June OIA Conference [view]

 

E. June OIA Conference Agenda [view]

 

F. Welcoming letter from Mr. Nikolao Pula, Director, Office of Insular Affairs, Department of Interior [view]

 

G. Guam Action Plan-Action Items presented by Guam Delegation at OIA Conference [view]

 

H. Grants to the Outer Pacific in FY 2006, Federal Regional Council Outer Pacific Committee Region IX [view]

 

I. U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General’s Presentation [view]

 

J. Property Procurement and Management Presentation - Philip Maestri, U.S. DOE [view]

 

K. Administrative Reporting Requirements Presentation – Sefton Boyars, CPA, CGFM [view]

 

L. Internal Controls Concepts and Standards – Sefton Boyars, CPA, CGFM [view]

 

M. U.S. General Accounting Office (GAO), Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government [view]

 

N. Preparing Indirect Cost Proposals Presentation – U.S. DOI, National Business Center [view]

 

O. Indirect Cost Rate Proposals – U.S. DOI, National Business Center [view]

 

P. Strengthening Island Government Cash Management Practices – U.S. Department of the Treasury [view]

 

Q. Understanding the Cash Management Plan [view]

GSC Training

-Guam’s Official Grants Site-

TRAINING RESOURCES

The Guam State Clearinghouse would like to recommend the following other sources of grantsmanship training. This does not mean to imply that these are only training resources:

 

Training Materials by Grants.gov are several tools and documents available to help explain and promote Grants.gov within your organization and among your colleagues and constituents. Save them to your desktop for quick reference, print out copies to have on hand, or forward them electronically to your colleagues.

 

Management Concepts offers a comprehensive federal grants and assistance training curriculum. Their courses focus on government-wide grants requirements and best practices to help federal awarding agencies, pass-through entities, and recipients effectively use scarce federal grant dollars, and include introductory courses on the grants process and application basics to advanced topics like assistance law and performance-based grants.

 

The Chronicle of Philanthropy is the newspaper of the nonprofit world. Published every other week, it is the No. 1 news source for charity leaders, fund raisers, grant makers, and other people involved in the philanthropic enterprise. The Web site offers the complete contents of the new issue, an archive of articles from the past two years, and more than four years' worth of grant listings.

 

The Foundation Center Online is a good source of information on assistance available through private foundations nationwide. The Foundation Center is an independent nonprofit information clearinghouse established to foster public understanding of the foundation field by collecting, organizing, analyzing, and disseminating information on foundations, corporate giving, and related subjects.

 

The Grantsmanship Center, TGCI, offers grantsmanship training and low-cost publications to nonprofit organizations and government agencies. TGCI conducts workshops annually in grantsmanship and proposal writing, and publishes a magazine as well as a proposal-writing guide.

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