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Grants Management Office
Webinars
NJ Department of the Treasury - Grants Management Office Lunch and Learn Series
The New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Grants Management Office is excited to invite you to our free online Lunch & Learn webinar series! Each month, we’ll bring together experienced grants professionals to share insights on every stage of the grant lifecycle—from researching and writing to managing awards and navigating challenges. These sessions are designed to give you practical tools, timely updates, and the chance to engage directly with experts through a live Q&A. Grab your lunch, log in, and join us to strengthen your grants management skills one webinar at a time!
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Upcoming Webinars
Managing Multiple Grants Without Chaos
March 10, 2026 | 12PM ET
The New Jersey Department of the Treasury’s Grants Management Office invites you to a free Lunch & Learn webinar, Managing Multiple Grants without Chaos: Overlapping grants do not have to mean constant crisis. This session offers practical systems for tracking deadlines, budgets, and reporting while improving coordination across program, finance, and leadership teams. Participants will leave with tools to prioritize work and reduce last minute stress.
We are pleased to partner with the Rutgers University Office of Continuing Professional Education and instructor Elaine Griffin for this informative session.
Grab your lunch, log in, and join us to sharpen your grants management skills—one webinar at a time.
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Past Webinars
Managing Up When the Stakes Are High: What Leadership Needs to Hear (and How to Say It)
Effective compliance communication is the backbone of successful grants management. Whether you’re delivering updates to executives, explaining requirements to program staff, or reassuring the public, the way you convey compliance information determines how well it’s understood and followed. This training will provide tools and strategies to communicate requirements with clarity, confidence, and impact.
Improving Your Grant Writing Skills
No matter what field you are in, the hunt to secure any type of grant funding has become highly competitive. Preparing a competitive grant proposal requires good research, careful preparation, and smooth writing. Through lessons and real-life examples, learn strategies and tools to help you research, prepare, and write grant applications that will give you an edge and put you on the road to funding.
Strategic Grant Management - Navigating Changes and Litigating Risks
In today’s unpredictable environment, it’s crucial to develop adaptive grant management strategies. This course equips participants to manage sponsor relationships, navigate change, and ensure project success. It also emphasizes the role of internal controls in guiding sponsored projects, minimizing liability, and making informed decisions to maintain compliance, financial stability, and flexibility amid federal disruptions.
Best Practices for Documenting Grant Impact and Success
Funders want to see the impact of their funding before, during, and after the proposal and funding cycle. This course is designed to help participants effectively document and share their project impact.
Managing and Reporting Grants in the Age of AI: Smart Tools, Smarter Oversight
AI tools can be powerful allies in managing and reporting on grants by helping speed up brainstorming, drafting, and organizing tasks. But they’re not a substitute for sound judgment, compliance awareness, or solid documentation. Through a realistic, grant-focused example, you’ll discover how entering program-specific variables into AI generates draft content, and then how to proof and edit the results for accuracy, allowability, and audit readiness. Along the way, we’ll flag key risks including data privacy concerns, unsupported claims, and audit vulnerabilities. We’ll also investigate how to avoid the most common (and costly) AI missteps.
Budgeting for the Fiscal Cliff
The “fiscal cliff” is coming into sharper focus as pandemic-era funding expires, political priorities shift, and compliance demands increase. This session goes beyond budget math to focus on strategy, clarity, and adaptability. We’ll cover budgeting fundamentals, the role of performance measures, and the warning signs that an organization may be vulnerable to funding shortfalls. Attendees will learn practical strategies to adjust their baseline budgets, create contingency plans, and communicate early with stakeholders.
Executive Orders and Federal Grants - What You Need to Know
Executive Orders (EOs) can reshape grant requirements and priorities overnight, sometimes without directly changing a single regulation. In this session, we’ll break down what EOs are, how they influence federal grant policy, and why understanding their impact is critical for compliance. Using recent and historical examples, we’ll show how EOs have affected procurement rules, eligibility criteria, reporting requirements, and funding priorities. Participants will learn how to identify relevant EOs, assess their compliance implications, and implement proactive strategies to mitigate risk, adjust budgets, and maintain alignment with shifting federal priorities. They’ll walk away with practical tools for monitoring EO changes, building flexibility into programs and budgets, and communicating effectively with funding partners.
Why Good Proposals Get Rejected
Even well-written grant applications can fall short. This session pulls back the curtain on how reviewers assess and score proposals, the early red flags they notice, and the common weaknesses that lead to rejection. Participants will gain practical, reviewer-informed strategies to strengthen proposal clarity, alignment, and credibility before submission.