Grants.gov struggles to track its expenses while managing $500 billion in grants

By Laurel Adams

Grants.gov, created to streamline bureaucracy for grants, is failing

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"… to show that they spend 40 percent of resources on posting activities. …"

"… federal agencies must handle, the Office of Management and Budget created Grants.gov in 2002 to simplify and streamline the federal grant process. But in 2 …"

"… y and streamline the federal grant process. But in 2009, OMB described the Grants.gov system performance as “noticeably degraded” and at “serious risk …"

"… d” and at “serious risk for failure”. OMB was so concerned about the Grants.gov ability to handle the onslaught of stimulus grant applications that it …"

Homeland Security marked by waste, lack of oversight

By G.W. Schulz

Records show that communities across California had difficulty managing millions in anti-terrorism grants handed out by Congress after Sept.

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"… meetings and conferences across the state to help guide grant recipients. Grants director Murphy told California Watch that requiring the state to collect …"

Lax controls raise doubts about millions awarded by Fish and Wildlife Service

By Ben Wieder

Questions raised about Hawaii distribution of grants for endangered species