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By: FEDweek StaffIn the year since its creation, the Council on Federal Financial Assistance has spurred better coordination among agencies in the awarding of grants and has reduced burdens on applicants and recipients, the White House has said.
“The federal government has progressed from an uncoordinated approach that led to sometimes conflicting strategies by different agencies for implementing government-wide guidance to the current approach with clear, aligned expectations for implementation and a coordinated governance structure,” it said.
It cited developments including:
* issuance earlier this year of a revision to the Uniform Grants Guidance to use plain language and streamline requirements for recipients of funding, and development of training for federal employees on applying those policy changes;
* sponsoring a pilot program of simplified “notices of funding opportunities” that will be expanded until those practices are government-wide in 2026;
* making information regarding programs that provide grants, loans, or direct payments more readily available through the Federal Program Inventory and coffa.gov.
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