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Peak Proposals
APRIL 3, 2023
Grant proposals have at least two parts: the project narrative and the budget (aka cost proposal). There may not be a division of responsibilities between the cost and narrative proposals at a small nonprofit, leaving the project lead (or the grant writer) to both write the proposal narrative and prepare the budget.
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Barrett & Greene
DECEMBER 11, 2023
At the end of November, a survey was released that investigated how local government finance leaders feel about their current budgeting practices and their readiness to embrace modernized approaches. One cautionary note, according to the report which was titled Rethinking Budgeting: Results from the Local Government Budget Survey.
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The City Fix
AUGUST 6, 2024
“Hum faltu hai [in English, “We are useless”] …I don’t even know what the budget of the council is. Nobody tells me about the procurement process [or] the number of tenders that have gone public…I don’t have enough knowledge about.
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The City Fix
JULY 16, 2024
In the stylish Grünerløkka neighborhood in Oslo, construction workers are busy rehabilitating Sophies Minde, an old medical clinic, into a new nursery school and maternal health center. Tidy piles of building materials along the perimeter of the construction site wait.
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GovLoop
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
Cloud FinOps is a financial management discipline that creates accountability around cloud usage to help your agency successfully budget for this tech.
GovLoop
JANUARY 24, 2023
“What people are expecting is personalized, online, digital services for those things that can be digitized,” said Charlie Francis, Senior Consultant at Questica, which provides multi-user budgeting, performance measures, transparency and data visualization software for governments.
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Death and Taxes
NOVEMBER 28, 2023
Blog post by Whitney Afonso, Zach Mohr, and Scott Powell Questions for Practitioners: When (as in time of year) should you engage citizens in budget simulations? Can I expect trust in our government to increase if we engage citizens in budget simulations?
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Grant Writing Made Easy
MAY 1, 2024
If hearing about nonprofit budgets makes you cringe a little ( or a lot ), keep reading. In 2024, the grant landscape for nonprofits has evolved significantly, emphasizing the need for meticulous financial planning and transparent budgeting to meet funder expectations. We’ve got you.
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American City & Country
SEPTEMBER 18, 2024
Transparency and accountability are crucial to maintaining public trust and require clear policies on surveillance use and data access.” Cross-departmental collaboration and scalable solutions are important to maximizing ROI and adapting to changing citizen demands within budget constraints.”
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Open Access Government - Technology News
SEPTEMBER 28, 2022
Field Chief Technology Officer Wade Ellery discusses identity sprawl, IAM, and how organisations can overcome identity sprawl issues and combat budget restraints. It’s also creating complexity in terms of effectively provisioning and de-provisioning user accounts when an employee joins, changes departments, or leaves the company.
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Grant Training Center
AUGUST 21, 2023
Project Management Abilities: Grant writing often entails creating project plans, budgets, and timelines. Financial Literacy: Grant writers often work on budget development and financial projections. This financial literacy is relevant to jobs in finance, accounting, and budget management.
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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
AUGUST 17, 2023
The United States’ nuclear weapon stockpile depends on facilities that are, on average, about 50 years old. In fact, the processing of enriched uranium used in nuclear weapons is still conducted in an Oppenheimer-era facility built in 1945.
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American City & Country
AUGUST 28, 2024
Louis struggle with resource constraints and grapple with the significant challenges cities face in balancing budgets, maintaining public services and managing infrastructure needs. It results from past budget deficits and requires ongoing management through interest and principal repayments.
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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
DECEMBER 3, 2024
Each year, Congress budgets billions of dollars for programs that could support American Indian and Alaska Native communities. But much of this money doesn’t reach Tribes. In a new report, we looked at the barriers and other challenges Tribes face.
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AWS Public Sector Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
With this solution, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. Organisations should consider enabling multi-factor authentication (MFA) to protect these highly privileged accounts. userIdentity.userName = "breakGlassUser0*") && ($.userIdentity.invokedBy
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FedTech Magazine
APRIL 30, 2024
A recent Government Accountability Office report highlights both the continuing benefits of telework and the challenges that agencies face, plus best practices that they should follow as they continue to adapt how they operate. The Office of Management and Budget directed agencies to bring employees back to the office post-pandemic in…
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AWS Public Sector Blog
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
Contact your account team if you are interested in learning more about a Working Backwards workshop. Managing costs – Select tools that help track and manage project resources to keep the budget on track. Example AWS Services: AWS Cost Explorer and Cost and Usage Dashboards Operations Solution (CUDOS; for enterprise accounts).
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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
AUGUST 8, 2023
Coast Guard plays a key role in national defense and security—patrolling areas like our ports and waterways, and operating in the Arctic and Antarctic. However, efforts to build and buy two types of ships that are critical to the Guard’s.
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American City & Country
OCTOBER 25, 2024
LeMaster continues: “If someone clicks on the link, they may be directed to a phishing site and asked to provide credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens, or surveillance-ware could be installed on their device, allowing attackers to access their government accounts or monitor device activity.
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FedTech Magazine
AUGUST 29, 2024
Agencies’ push to enhance the customer experience has reached a critical juncture, according to a recent Government Accountability Office report. The Office of Management and Budget has been at the forefront of this effort by setting CX goals, identifying leaders and dedicating resources to staffing and technology improvements.
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Open Access Government - Technology News
MAY 12, 2023
In England and Wales, cyber-related fraud incidents accounted for 61% of all fraud cases last year. Imagine your accounts team gets hacked and, after scanning through their previously sent emails, the hackers know how to word an email to convince you it is really them. trillion for the global economy by 2025.
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NLC (National League of Cities)
APRIL 28, 2023
Federal grants accounted for 66 percent of state/local public welfare spending in 2020, up from 55 percent in 1977. Federal assistance helps city finances and budgets by providing resources to […] Source Federal assistance is a significant source of funding for state and local governments in the U.S.,
AWS Public Sector Blog
JULY 17, 2023
The common reasons customers may need to invoke Amazon Web Services (AWS) services in a standard account from an AWS GovCloud (US) account (or vice versa) include: cross-domain applications, feature parity, and if the AWS service doesn’t exist in AWS GovCloud (US). An AWS Lambda function triggers the email in AWS GovCloud (US).
Microsoft Public Sector
AUGUST 20, 2024
Resource Allocation: Optimize budget planning and resource distribution. Finance departments can use Copilot in Excel to perform complex budget scenario analyses and generate easy-to-understand reports for stakeholders, making the budget process more efficient and transparent.
AWS Public Sector Blog
DECEMBER 11, 2023
A landing zone is a well-architected, multi-account AWS environment that is scalable and secure. Using LZA on AWS, customers with highly-regulated workloads and complex compliance requirements can better manage and govern their multi-account environment. What is a landing zone?
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Death and Taxes
MARCH 27, 2023
Local governments in North Carolina are required to engage citizens in their budget process by following the guidelines set forth by the Local Government Budget and Fiscal Control Act. In addition to these legal requirements, many local governments in North Carolina have taken further steps to engage citizens in the budget process.
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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
MARCH 31, 2023
An accounting of every penny is necessary. And the more work necessary, the higher the percentage of a nonprofit’s budget will be dedicated to overhead – the essential operations needed to run a nonprofit. Yet these same foundations require hoop after hoop for nonprofits to jump through during the grant management process.
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GovLoop
JANUARY 31, 2024
The further behind your technology is, the more financially difficult modernization becomes because agencies must anticipate their budgets years in advance — often before the tools they need fully exist, Kowalski said. “Not only are you not benefiting from what these tools can provide, … you also can’t contribute anything,” she added.
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Open Access Government - Technology News
JULY 14, 2023
However, internal actors account for nearly a third (30%) of breaches, and collaboration between external parties and government employees or partners accounts for 16% of data breaches. Limited budgets, in-house skills, complex cyber threats, and a growing compliance burden will all take their toll.
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GovPilot
DECEMBER 21, 2023
From budget constraints, to crime and public safety , to environmental issues, local government officials deal with numerous problems on a daily basis. While tackling these problems, they must keep their constituents happy by being transparent and holding themselves to the highest standard of accountability.
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GovLoop
NOVEMBER 21, 2022
Health care and care for dependents take more out of some household budgets than shelter. Flexible spending accounts (FSAs) allow them to set aside money to pay for care in pre-tax dollars. For federal employees in participating agencies, the Federal Flexible Spending Account Program ( FSAFEDS ) is already an available benefit.
AWS Public Sector Blog
NOVEMBER 3, 2023
About to be handcuffed, the individual remembered their Kiip account. They explained to the officers that HOPICS set them up with an account that saved all of their identifying documents when they first entered the shelter. Unable to prove they were not the perpetrator, police prepared to take the individual into custody.
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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
OCTOBER 14, 2022
We handle funder site visits, write reports, spend the money, account for said money correctly, and ensure everything we promised in that grant application is delivered on time and managed on budget. No stress there.) Then we do it again.
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GAO (US Government Accountability Office)
MARCH 21, 2023
is expected to continue providing significant financial support, as indicated by the President’s FY 2024 budget request. As Ukraine enters its second year of conflict with Russia following the 2022 invasion, the U.S. In addition to responding to.
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Microsoft Public Sector
OCTOBER 29, 2024
This need aligns with the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) M-24-10, which mandates the appointment of Chief AI Officers, the formation of agency AI governance boards, the development of compliance plans, and the creation of AI use case inventory. Specific sectors have additional regulatory requirements.
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Let's Talk Parks
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Have you ever experienced: a limited budget? And when developing quality programs, I think you have to take into consideration one what the objectives are, but what’s your budget for it? So in Columbus, we had a zero marketing budget. So one of the programs that we developed was a digital media account.
Grant Writing Made Easy
OCTOBER 30, 2022
I get more questions about budgets and nonprofit financial information than any other component of grant writing. This is such a huge topic, but I will say that one of the first things you need to do if you haven’t already is hire an accountant who specializes in nonprofits. 5: Keep your finances in order.
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AWS Public Sector Blog
JUNE 24, 2024
In March 2024, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) released a memo that provides more specific directions to agencies for compliance with the guidance outlined in the executive order. By using these capabilities, agencies can proactively identify and mitigate potential biases, fostering trust and accountability in their AI systems.
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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
SEPTEMBER 23, 2022
Accounting Tools. Creating user accounts with limited access can help ensure your nonprofit maintains effective data security. . DNL OmniMedia’s guide to nonprofit consulting firms recommends factoring consulting costs into your overall budget when purchasing new software. Accounting Tools. Grant Management Software.
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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services
DECEMBER 6, 2024
Effective grant management goes beyond tracking funds in your CRM its also about budgeting effectively, prioritizing programs that need financial support, and delivering timely reports to grantmakers. Many grantmakers request a proposed budget along with grant applications to show youre thinking about these goals from the start.
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GovLoop
SEPTEMBER 8, 2022
Where once both hardware and software could be budgeted as one-time purchases, cloud-based solutions require ongoing contracts that need a maintenance-style budget. The rise of cloud and of software-as-a-service (SaaS) based tools has changed the way expenses are accounted for. What do you do when it spikes?
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Barrett & Greene
JANUARY 29, 2024
We agree that officers should be held accountable and that strong actions are needed to prevent racial profiling. But while our administration supports efforts to make law enforcement more transparent, more just, and more accountable, this bill would take officers away from policing our streets and engaging with the community.
GovLoop
OCTOBER 30, 2024
UCMM has proven invaluable when talking about cyber investments not just with IT experts, but with chief financial officers, budget examiners and lawmakers, he added. DHS highlighted UCMM in its “Integrated Strategy for High-Risk Management,” a biannual update to the Government Accountability Office. OK, we got $5.
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GovLoop
APRIL 22, 2024
“Agencies have had difficulty finding employees with such knowledge and may have to pay a premium for specialized staff or contractors,” according to a recent report on modernization from the Government Accountability Office (GAO). This is called technical debt.
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