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CNCS grantees are required to report their sub-awards (subgrants) over $25,000 using www.FSRS.gov. Reporting input is due by the end of the month, following the award of each sub-grant. Please ensure that your reporting is complete and current.
Once your sub-grant data is entered into FSRS, it becomes available through USASpending.gov. If you need technical assistance uploading sub-grant records, you will find help desk resources at www.FSRS.gov. CNCS tests reporting compliance only for sub-awards over $25,000. Questions on compliance with this requirement should be directed to your grants officer.
Congress uses USASpending.gov as its first stop for grant data, and missing subgrant award records can delay clearance for access to services from our FBI Channeler which you might be using as part of your National Service Criminal History Check protocol. For these reasons and in the spirit of government transparency, grantees are encouraged to voluntarily report all sub-awards including $0 subgrants awarded to support non-financial volunteers, federal benefits, as well as sub-awards designed to pass-through matching funds. If you operate service sites and stations and similar locations where individuals are placed to perform their volunteer service but do not make a subgrant to those locations (e.g. AmeriCorps VISTA), please do not report those non-subgrant associations.
We are aware that under some circumstances a prime grant is not found in the FSRS system, and in those cases you cannot report subgrants into FSRS. If it has been 30-days or more since CNCS awarded the prime grant, contact Jonathan Ottke at jottke@cns.gov. He will work with FSRS to correct the problem, and he is working with the system owners to eliminate the cause of this problem.
Grantees are encouraged to familiarize themselves with the FSRS reporting system and data accessible at the recently upgraded USAspending.gov.
In Service,
Joseph Liciardello, Acting Chief Grants Officer
Corporation for National and Community Service Grant Offices
Washington, DC and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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