Federal Agencies
This department serves as the nation's forefront of such exploration and continues to pioneer in aeronautics, exploration systems, science, and space operations.
What is The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)?
A type of financial assistance award distinctly different from a grant.
What is a cooperative agreement?
The federal grant lifecycle is comprised of these three phases.
What are Pre-Award, Award, and Post-Award?
A comprehensive plan to determine the effectiveness of the program in meeting stated objectives
What is an evaluation plan?
R.F.A.
What is Request For Applications?
This department provides the military forces needed to deter war and protect the security of the United States through five major areas: peacekeeping and war-fighting efforts, Homeland Security, evacuation and humanitarian causes.
What is The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD)?
The shortest of the three federal grant life-cycle phases.
What is The Award Phase?
What is A Logic Model?
The continuous assessment of program effectiveness and progress towards achieving its objectives.
What is a formative evaluation?
S.M.A.R.T.
What is Specific, Measurable, Actionable/Acheivable, Realistic, Timebound?
This department's goal is to advance national, economic, and energy security in the U.S.; to promote scientific and technological innovation in support of that goal; and to ensure environmental cleanup of the national nuclear weapons complex
What is The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)?
The four main types of federal grant funding.
What are Competitive Funding, Formula Funding, Continuation Funding, and Pass-Through Funding?
What is a process objective?
The measurement of objectives at the end of a pre-defined period.
What is a summative evaluation?
This department is the federal government's principal agency for protecting the health of all Americans and providing essential human services, especially to those who are least able to help themselves.
What is the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)?
These are the six basic components for a logic model.
What are Situation, Input, Output, Outcomes, Assumptions, and External Factors?
Describes an outcome which is the result of something you did.
What is an outcome objective?
Programs, activities, and services provided by federal agencies to strengthen the capacity of grant recipients and to improve their performance of grant functions
What is technical assistance?
F.F.R.
What are Federal Financial Requests?
This department has three primary missions: Prevent terrorist attacks within the United States, reduce America's vulnerability to terrorism and minimize the damage from potential attacks and natural disasters.
What is The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)?
The office that issues guidance for implementing legislation.
What is the Executive Office?
The purpose behind framing any statute to curb public evil or effectuate public benefit.
What is legislative intent?
Intended to review the capacity performance and compliance of a grant recipient agency.
What is a site visit?
What is the Payment Management System?
This department protects and provides access to the nation's natural and cultural heritage, including responsibilities to Indian tribes and island communities. Departmental goals include resource protection and usage, overseeing recreational opportunities, serving communities, and excellence in management.
What is The U.S. Department of the Interior (DOI)
The 5 federal bodies involved in grant policy formation.
What are Congress, The White House, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), Grant-making federal departments and agencies, and the Government Accountability Office (GAO)?
This is the government-wide framework for grants management across different federal agencies.
What is the uniform guidance for federal awards?
This is the length of time that grant records need to be retained.
What is 3 years?
C.F.D.A.
What are the legal hierarchies involved in federal grant policy making?
Congressional: Statutes and Regulations
Executive Office: Executive Orders, Memoranda, and Circulars
Grant Making Agencies: Administrative policies and procedures