OBI Office Hours (Webex or in-person) – 30 Day Wellness Check (Using the ICC Dashboard and others to Reconcile Accounts)

Wednesday, June 21^st 1-2pm

Cambridge, 1033 Mass Ave, 5th Floor, Room 559

Please join us for a discussion on using OBI Dashboards to manage your end-of-year grant closeout. We will focus on the Invalid Code Combinations Dashboard, Subagreements Dashboard, and Committed Funds Report Dashboard. Bring all your questions about reconciling accounts to ensure a smooth closeout process! Read more about OBI Office Hours (Webex or in-person) – 30 Day Wellness Check (Using the ICC Dashboard and others to Reconcile Accounts)

Please be advised that the NSF website and NSF’s Fastlane and Research.gov systems will be unavailable over the upcoming July 4^th long weekend from 8:00PM on Friday, June 30 through 6:00PM on Tuesday, July 4^th.  See below for the full text of the message issued by Jean Feldman of the NSF Policy Office describing the sites and systems affected by outage.

See below for a recent NSF communication re:the outage.

"The National Science Foundation (NSF) is moving its Data Center IT servers to the Foundation’s new headquarters in Read more about NSF.gov, FastLane, and Research.gov Unavailable from Friday, June 30 at 8:00 PM EDT until Tuesday, July 4 at 6:00 PM EDT

REACH Advanced Training Session - It Takes Three: Using the Three Lines of Defense Model to Help Manage Risk

Date: Thursday June 15^th, 2017

Time: 9:00am-10:30am

Location: Cambridge, 1414 Mass Ave, 5^th Floor, Room 561

Description: Come explore ways in which departmental management, risk control and compliance functions and internal audit can help manage compliance risk. Presenters will discuss how the unique skills and complementary perspectives of Read more about REACH Advanced Training Session (6/15) - It Takes Three: Using the Three Lines of Defense Model to Help Manage Risk

Subrecipient Monitoring Training – 2 trainings in May/June 2017

May 23^rd and June 6^th from 2-3:30pm in the Lamont Library Forum Room. Please enroll through the Harvard Training Portal.

The training sessions will focus on the following:

• Changes to University Subrecipient Monitoring Policy
• Read more about Upcoming Trainings - Subrecipient Monitoring & Cost Sharing

Announcement from Patrick Fitzgerald, FAS Associate Dean for Research Administration and Jay Herlihy, FAS Associate Dean for Finance

April 27, 2017

The FAS/SEAS will be issuing a new policy governing assessments on gifts and sponsored awards (“grants”).  The new policy, which will be effective on gifts received on or after July 1, 2017 and on sponsored awards submitted for funding on or after July 1, 2017, will standardize the collection of assessments on current use gifts and grants made by non-federal entities (excluding industry sponsored research agreements) at 15%. Read more about New Policy Governing Assessments on Gifts and Sponsored Awards (“Grants”)