Brown Bag Resources
In an effort to ensure that individuals responsible for the development, implementation,
and management of grants have the resources they need to be successful, GSP facilitates
Grant Manager Brown Bags throughout the year focused on topics of interest to successful
grant management. Upcoming dates and topics, as well as an archive of past presentations
are available here.
Resources
2026
2025
- November 2025: So…. Your Program Needs Money — Strategies for Securing Additional Money to Support Existing Projects [PDF]
- October 2025: Saving Space for Federal Grant Managers — A Few Reminders [PDF]
- September 2025: "Allowable, Reasonable Allocable …. and Documented — The Primary Responsibility of the Project Director” [PDF]
- May 2025: “Hiring Faculty on Sponsored Projects: What You Need to Know” [PDF]
- April 2025: “District Independent Audit: What is it and the Role of the Grant Manager/Grant Team" [PDF]
- March 2025: “It’s That Time of Year – 90 Days to June 30 Planning for Year-End?” [PDF]
- February 2025: “It’s 2025, You Are a Grant Manager, What Do you Do?” [PDF]
2024
- November 2024: “Navigating the 2024 Uniform Guidance Revisions" [PDF]
- October 2024: “Making Cent$ Out of Uncertainty" [PDF]
- September 2024: “New Grant Acceptance & Set-up Process" [PDF]
- May 2024: “Diving Deeper into Grant Navigator" [PDF]
- April 2024: “Year End: Reconciliation, Reflections, and Changes” [PDF]
- March 2024: “New Grant Acceptance and Set-Up” [PDF]
2023
- November 2023:Purchasing - Everything You Need to Know: From Submitting A Requisition to Conducting Business [PDF]
- October 2023: Everything You Wanted to Know About Audits But Were Afraid to Ask [PDF]
- August 2023: Why Time & Effort Reporting [PDF]
- May 2023: Wading into the Black Hole: The Role of Indirect Costs in Grant De velopment & Management [PDF]
- April 2023:Technology as Your Grant Management Friend [PDF]
- March 2023: Too Much of a Good Thing [PDF]
- February 2023: Let's Talk Contracts [PDF]
2022
- November 2022: Grant Reporting - Telling Your Story [PDF]
- October 2022: Travel - Not as Simple as it Seems [PDF]
- September 2022: The Ins and Outs of Purchasing Equipmentwith Grant Funds [PDF]
- May 2022: End of Year Updates [PDF]
- April 2022: Documentation & Reporting [PDF]
- March 2022: End of Year Purchasing Deadlinesand Tentative Budget P reparation [PDF]
- RCCD's Year End Closing [PDF]
2021
- September 2021: Project Management: Effective T ools forFacilitating Project Management [PDF]
- June 2021: New Time & Effort Report, Grant Management Handbook and Other Grant-Related Topics to Help Conclude the Fiscal Year [PDF]
- June 2021: New Time & Effort Report, Grant Management Handbook and Other Grant-Related Topics to Help Conclude the Fiscal Year [PDF]
- May 2021: Preparing for Fiscal Year Closeout [PDF]
- April 2021: Galaxy 101 for Grant Managers [PDF]
- March 2021: Strategies for Reconciling Your Grant Budget [PDF]

