Uniform Guidance

We learned this morning that many of our clients received a “Notification Letter” from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) terminating grant funding. The notice states that the specific [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip A. Escoriaza will present at the State of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration annual training on December 3, 2025. The event welcomes over 200 financial professionals across Tennessee’s [...]

Six-Month Delay in Guide to Audits The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has released the 2025 Compliance Supplement for Single Audit Act audits. Its issuance as Appendix XI to 2 C.F.R. [...]

A conflict of interest (COI) policy is a foundational compliance requirement for many nonprofit corporations.  Most state nonprofit corporation statutes prohibit interested directors from engaging in business with the corporation when a [...]

On November 18, 2025, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released updates to its adoption of Federal grant regulations in the Uniform Guidance at 2 C.F.R. Part 300. As [...]

We are hearing from an increasing number of our federal grantee clients who are facing challenges with their Negotiated Indirect Cost Rate Agreements (NICRAs) as a result of significant staffing shortages at [...]

Increased Competition Thresholds Effective October 1, 2025 This has been a whirlwind of a year in changes in grants, and now, with the beginning of the new federal fiscal year, it is [...]

Feldesman Partners Ted Waters and Mindy Pava will address the rapidly shifting federal grants environment during a DC Bar program on September 30, 2025. Their session, “New Administration, New Challenges: Understanding the [...]

“Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking” Gives Agency Heads More Control Over Federal Grant Review and Provides for Uniform Guidance Revisions A new Executive Order (EO) issued Thursday, August 7 continues—and expands upon—the [...]

Feldesman Partner Phillip Escoriaza will present on federal funding issues impacting Tribal Nations at the 18th Annual Native American Economic Development Conference and the inaugural Tribal Emergency Management Conference, both taking place [...]