Evaluating Grant Proposal Submission Success Rates
Monitoring grant submission success rates is a key part of evaluating the financial health of a research organization. It identifies training opportunities and areas of focus for future proposal submissions, as well as aiding planning for growth. Any good grant...
Why Researchers Need Prompt Grant Accounting Reports
Learn how to create and deliver grant accounting reports on a reliable schedule, which will make your research teams happy.
The Grant Lifecycle: How to Improve Post-award Grants Management
Today we're talking about the post-award phase of the grant lifecycle (a previous post discussed the pre-award phase). As a quick refresher, pre-award activities include activities like: Searching for funding Developing proposals Working with internal teams on grant...
3 Tips for Effective Grants Management
Effective grants management is critical to keep the flow of research funding in support of today’s leading research organizations. Since Cayuse serves the nation’s leading research-focused organizations, we're always on the lookout for informative, timely, and helpful...
The Grant Lifecycle: How to Improve Pre-award Processes
"The grant lifecycle" refers to all the phases of a research grant: from the initial idea about what to research and submitting a proposal to receiving funding, doing the actual research, and reporting on the findings and how funding was spent. Each phase of the grant...
3 Grants Management Lessons Learned Recently
Why it’s so important to reduce complexity and other grant management lessons we’ve learned this year.
How to Manage Issues Requiring Administrative Oversight
Pre-award administrative oversight is key to prevent adverse situations and ensure research projects are successfully completed.
Prorating Grant Budgets to Help Estimate the Availability of Funding
It's exciting when a sponsor approves a research proposal. Suddenly researchers have money to fund their studies! But the last thing you want to happen is overspending: going through the funding too fast. Ideally, the money will be evenly spread out throughout the...
Limitations of Grant Tracking Spreadsheets
Research administrators use grant tracking spreadsheets at everywhere from nonprofits and independent research institutes to large, research-intensive universities. They're easy to set up and sort by names of key personnel, funding agency, agency number, project start...
Grants Management Software for Research Administration
Successful research organizations use grants management software for oversight and administration of funding portfolios. These organizations rely on grants to fund their research enterprises, which are composed of highly skilled scientists, post-doctoral fellows, and...
How to Prepare Your Research Office to Go Paperless
You’ll love the benefits of an electronic research administration system! Learn how your research team can ease the transition to an all-digital office.
4 Ways Grant Management Systems Can Help Your Research Organization
Learn how grant management systems can help solve the challenges of administering federally sponsored research projects.
What Are Shadow Accounting Systems, and Should You Have One?
A shadow accounting system is a set of records maintained at a local level that is independent of the centralized system of record, especially if high-level records aren’t specific enough.
Best Practices for Subrecipient Awards Management
Managing subrecipient awards (subawards) may seem daunting, but with a little preparation, the whole process can be made seamless. Here’s what to do.
Common Grant Accounting Challenges
We’ve worked with some of the nation’s most respected research universities, healthcare organizations, individual departments, and others. Each of these settings has its own unique mission and funding environment, yet each entity faces a common set of challenges...
5 Grant Management Problems and Red Flags
Not long ago, I read that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) was facing dwindling federal budgets and political gridlock. However, they wanted to raise record-low grant approval rates, so they wanted researchers to apply for fewer grants. Seems frustrating and...
Top 3 Frustrations for Research Administrators – and How to Address Them
No one ever said research administration is easy. Demanding PIs, complex applications, ambiguous agency regulations, and tight deadlines. Learn how to handle each.
What’s FAIN and How Does it Improve Data Quality for Federal Spending?
In 2013, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) ordered each federal agency to assign a unique number, or FAIN, to all financial assistance awards. This post will explain what FAIN is, how it increases transparency, and how to find a FAIN. What’s FAIN? It's an...