News and information for organizations managing a current Fund for Veterans’ Assistance grant.
Each budget category in FVA grants consists of subcategories, in order to assist staff and grantee in managing and reporting expenses.
The budget categories and subcategories are listed below. Additional details of what costs are allowable within each subcategory are listed in the right column.
Only costs listed are allowable costs within FVA grants. An applicant/grantee must have the subcategory/cost listed in the approved budget to be claimed. An explanation of the cost must be included in the budget narrative, relating the ...
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2019
As a condition of FVA funding, Grantee organizations are required to provide information regarding grant performance along with expense documentation on a regular schedule. The dates for these reports (either due from Grantee, or initiated by Grant Officer) are listed here:
Standard 2019-2020 Grant Reporting Schedule
August 15, 2019
- First Payment Reimbursement Request due
September 15, 2019
- Second Payment Reimbursement Request due
October 15, 2019
- Third Payment Reimbursement Request due
- First Quarterly Progress Report due
November 15, 2019
- Fourth Payment Reimbursement Request due
December 15, 2019
- Fifth Payment Reimbursement Request due
January 15, 2020
- Sixth Payment Reimbursement Request due
- Second Quarterly Progress ...
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JUL
2019
Fund for Veterans’ Assistance staff has prepared a webinar to train grantees on how to report data back to TVC in your organization’s monthly Payment Reimbursement Request.
With FVA’s transition to the GovGrants system, returning grantees will learn about important updates to FVA’s procedures. New grantees will learn the nuts and bolts of how to submit the Payment Reimbursement Request report in GovGrants, and how to work with the PRR spreadsheet customized by your Grant Officer.
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JUL
2019
New Fund for Veterans’ Assistance grantees across the Lone Star State geared up to start their awarded projects with staff’s July 11th tutorial. This training provides more basic information about working with the FVA staff, and the mechanics of managing a grant funded by the Texas Veterans Commission.
Click here to register and view a recording of the Newly Awarded Grantee webinar. This training covers:
- Working With Your Grant ...
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JUL
2019
All Requests for Application (RFAs) from the Fund for Veterans Assistance include a definition of approved budget:
Approved Budget. The budget included in a grant application that corresponds with the amount awarded by the Commission.
Explanation
Because some grantees propose costs that are unallowable in their initial application, FVA staff must negotiate the Approved Budget. Unallowed costs are removed from the grant in these negotiations.
Therefore, the Approved Budget may not match exactly with the initial budget submitted with your application.
This means the Approved Budget ...
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JUL
2019
The Fund for Veterans’ Assistance staff has published Grant Application and Award Policies (“Policies”) and the Expenditure Supporting Document Policy (“SDP”) to support awarded grantees in the 2019-2020 grant year. The Tables of Contents for both documents are reproduced below.
Click on the name of the document you wish to view below, and the PDF will open in a new browser window.
- Application Phase
- Application Timeline
- GovGrants
- One Account
- Registration
- Password ...
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JUL
2019
Administration
Robert J. Harriss, Staff Services Officer
I’m from Houston and served 20+ years on active duty in the U.S. Army. Various deployments include Iraq, Haiti, Kosovo, and Afghanistan. As a small part of the ‘well-oiled machine’, I take pride in helping bring aid & assistance to veterans and their families in their time of need.
Grants Management
Ervey Leos Jr., Lead ...
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JUL
2019
As part of the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance (FVA) application process, you will have to define a veteran. This exercise is a practical one, rather than philosophical.
Requests for Application from the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance all include definitions of surviving spouse and disabled veteran because these terms are set by our governing statutes. But some organizations have a specific population or experience in mind when designing their grant programs, so FVA asks applicants for their own definition of a veteran ...
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JUN
2019
FVA Staff has prepared a guide to help you complete contract negotiations in the GovGrants portal.
Negotiations are required to ensure the costs and services in your application are allowable, and to make any minor changes to the approved project that you have considered since the submission of the application.
The Grant Officer with FVA will Send Request for Negotiation to the grantee. Once initiated, the applicant will be ...
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JUN
2019
Awards for the 2019-2020 grant year are about to begin. Do you know how to work with the Fund for Veterans’ Assistance? FVA staff conducted an Awarded Grantee webinar on Thursday, June 6th to introduce 2019-2020 grantees to their FVA grant awards.
This training covers:
- FVA Staff (1:29)
- Expectations (3:20)
- Introduction To Your New FVA Grant (5:26)
- Maintaining Your FVA Grant (10:15)
- Compliance (14:05)
- Communications (19:48)
- GovGrants (30:56)
- Next Trainings (42:02)
- Questions (42:49)
- Contact Information (1:00:40)
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