February 12, 2021
FTLF Partners Scott Sheffler and Ted Waters will present a webinar hosted by the National Grant Management Association (NGMA) on March 31, 2021, from 1-2 p.m. EDT.The webinar “What Should I Care About? [...]
January 13, 2021
Next month, FTLF Managing Partner Ted Waters will speak at the Society of Research Administrators International’s Financial Management Conference. All types of research grants are prone to fraud, from submitting a false grant [...]
January 5, 2021
On December 27, 2020, the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2021, Pub. L. No. 116-260 (“the Act”), became law. The Act is a $2.3 trillion spending bill that combines $900 billion for stimulus relief in [...]
December 2, 2020
Today, FTLF Partner Scott Sheffler will speak at the State of Tennessee Department of Finance and Administration Annual Training. This annual event for State government CPAs will bring together approximately 200 finance [...]
November 20, 2020
FTLF Managing Partner, Ted Waters, and Partner, Scott Sheffler, were quoted in the most recent edition of the Health Care Compliance Association’s Report on Research Compliance. The article, titled Revised UG Ups Micro-Purchase [...]
November 4, 2020
Today, FTLF Partner Scott Sheffler will present on national policy requirements at the Grant Professional Association’s (GPA) Annual Conference. Almost every federal grant entails employment and anti-discrimination standards, environmental requirements, fraud mitigation obligations, [...]
November 3, 2020
Today, FTLF Managing Partner Ted Waters will present at the Alaska Primary Care Association’s (APCA) Winter Summit Conference. Mr. Waters’ presentation will focus on best practices and emerging challenges for grant management during [...]
September 4, 2020
FTLF Managing Partner and national grant law specialist, Ted Waters was featured in WUSA9’s VERIFY segment about President Trump’s ability to pull grant funding from specific cities and states. The discussion focused on [...]
August 31, 2020
On August 28, 2020, the Office of Head Start (OHS) published a Final Rule, which updated the Designation Renewal System (DRS). Originally established in 2011, the DRS, which is comprised of seven conditions, [...]
August 21, 2020
The U.S. Constitution requires the nation’s population to be counted every ten years through the nationwide census. It is not too late to encourage the population whom you serve to participate in the [...]