Grant Closeouts and Unobligated Balances
Watch this webinar to better understand the closeout process for your Head Start grant awards.
These resources feature strategies for managing cash flow, projecting receipts and expenditures, and creating a budget. Discover best practices for crafting a budget narrative and avoiding common budgeting mistakes. Learn about the types of costs that are allowable under the program award and find electronic tools and resources to calculate unobligated funds.
Watch this webinar to better understand the closeout process for your Head Start grant awards.
In this webinar, staff from the Office of Head Start and the Office of Grants Management discuss how to close out COVID-19 grants.
Use this electronic worksheet to calculate unspent salary and fringe benefit dollars related to understaffing and to make decisions on how to re-budget those funds.
Learn more about cost allocation principles and practices. Find out how they help Head Start programs organize their funding sources and comply with federal regulations.
This publication provides per diem rates for Federal travel in the continental United States. Federal travel customers will find this resource useful when planning and arranging their travel activities.
This resource discusses cash flow, its management through projecting receipts and expenditures, and developing a cash flow budget. Nonprofit grantees may find this information useful in managing their cash flow.
Costs to develop and administer a program cannot be excessive or exceed 15% of the total approved program costs. Read about the limitations on development and administrative costs, as well as waiver requests.
A detailed budget, which is consistent with instructions in the funding opportunity announcement and application instructions, is required as part of the application process. Applicants will find this information helpful in understanding the types of costs that are allowable under the program award.
This publication provides clarification on the need to seek prior approval for carryover of unobligated funds. Grantees will find this information helpful if they have unobligated balances and have a need to address programmatic goals and objectives. Prior approval is necessary for written request for notice of award, offset of the current award, or subsequent award, and expanded authority.
This publication provides a chart listing four uses of Program Income Alternatives with detail explanations and use. Grantees or delegate agencies will find this chart useful when deciding or making decisions on the use of program income.