Federal grants management training built around how your agency awards, administers, and monitors grant dollars

Taught by federal grants practitioners who have awarded, administered, and audited real programs, and delivered your way: onsite, live online, or self-paced.

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Since 1921
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500,000+
government employees trained
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All levels
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Three ways to train your team

Every format draws on the same practitioner-built grants management curriculum and instructors who have done the work. Choose what fits your headcount, timeline, and budget, or combine them.

  • Private group training: we bring Uniform Guidance, cost principles, and monitoring to your grants office and work from your own awards.
  • Open enrollment: send award and program staff to scheduled classes on indirect rates, subawards, and audit prep, live online or in Washington, DC.
  • Self-paced eLearning: staff cover grant law, allowable costs, and monitoring on their own schedule, without pausing an active award cycle.
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Private group training

Bring a class onsite and the cases come from your own award file: the indirect cost rate you are negotiating, the special conditions you attach, the subrecipient findings you are chasing, the closeout you have not finished. Grant-making offices and recipient organizations each work their own side of 2 CFR 200.

  • Any course or certificate in our grants management catalog, delivered onsite, live online, or blended
  • A new course built to your specification when nothing off-the-shelf fits
  • Scheduled around your calendar, for a cohort of any size
  • Rostering, progress, and completion reporting for the whole group
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Open enrollment

Send the new grants specialist, or the program officer who just inherited an award portfolio, into a scheduled session on the Uniform Guidance, cost principles, or monitoring, alongside grants staff from agencies that structure and administer awards differently.

  • A published schedule across the federal grants management curriculum, entry to advanced
  • Live online, or in person at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW in Washington, DC
  • No minimum headcount and no setup: register and go
  • The same instructors and materials as our private cohorts
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Self-paced eLearning

Grants work runs on the award calendar, not the training calendar. Self-paced study carries the foundations, grant law, the Uniform Guidance, ethics, and cost principles, to staff who cannot step away from a closeout deadline or an application review to sit in a scheduled class.

  • Finish a self-paced grants course, then take the same instructor-led class live and free within a year.
  • Work through allowability calls, indirect rate scenarios, and subaward monitoring decisions, not just slides.
  • An AI coach available at any hour, grounded in the course material on 2 CFR 200 and cost principles.
  • Enroll one grants specialist or an entire program office, with completion tracking toward a certificate.
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A grants curriculum that follows the award lifecycle

From foundations and Uniform Guidance through pre-award design, financial administration, monitoring, and audit, these courses map to every role that touches federal grant funds. Mix and match them for your agency, or ladder them into a certificate.

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Grants Management Foundations

Ground your team in the law, the Uniform Guidance, and the ethics that govern every federal award.
Introduction to Grants Course Federal Grant Law and Policy Framework Course Uniform Administrative Requirements for Federal Grants Course Federal Grant Management Ethics Course

Cost Principles & Indirect Costs

Get allowable costs, indirect rates, and day-to-day grant financial administration right.
Cost Principles for Grants Course Developing and Negotiating Indirect Cost Rates Course Financial Administration of Federal Grants Course

Pre-Award, Applications & Award Structuring

Design programs, assess risk, and structure awards before the money goes out the door.
Developing a Federal Grant Application Course Program Design and Risk Assessment Course Pre-Award Risk Assessment and Award Structuring Course Negotiating Award Terms and Special Conditions Course

Monitoring, Subawards & Cooperative Agreements

Oversee recipients, subrecipients, and cooperative agreements from award through closeout.
Monitoring Grants Course Managing and Monitoring Subawards Course Monitoring and Managing Cooperative Agreements Course

Internal Control, Audit & Fraud Prevention

Build internal controls, prepare for the audit, and detect and stop grant fraud.
Internal Control for Grants Course Auditing Grants Course Audit Prep Workshop for Federal Grants Course Detecting and Preventing Federal Grant Fraud Course

Performance, Results & Emerging Practice

Drive measurable outcomes, oversee compliance, and put AI to work across the grants lifecycle.
Grant Performance, Outcomes, and Results Management Course Monitoring, Performance, and Compliance Oversight Course AI for Federal Grants Management Course

Certificate programs

Three certificate programs, each 14 days, divided by role rather than by level: one covering the full 2 CFR 200 lifecycle, one for agency grant-making staff, and one for award recipients. Choose by which side of the award your people sit on.

Certificate

Grants Management Certificate Program

The full federal grants lifecycle under 2 CFR 200: Uniform Guidance, cost principles, monitoring, internal control, and audit prep.

14 days
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Certificate

Grants Federal Personnel Certificate Program

For agency grant-making staff: program design, pre-award risk, award structuring, and performance and compliance oversight.

14 days
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Certificate

Grants Recipient Certificate Program

For award recipients: grant law, application development, financial administration, subawards, and audit readiness.

14 days
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Vetted procurement, right from the GSA Schedule

Graduate School USA is a GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract holder, allowing federal agencies and other qualifying organizations to confidently purchase our services.

  • GSA MAS contract 47QRAA24D004K, SINs 611430 (professional training) and 541611 (management/administrative consulting)
  • Held as American Public Training LLC d/b/a Graduate School USA; UEI LA83MCFN1ST3; CAGE 99AA0
  • We work with your training office on the paperwork, whether a Schedule order, purchase order, or an SF-182.
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An established federal training institution

Graduate School USA's federal grants management curriculum is designed and taught in-house by practitioners who have managed federal grant programs end to end, not licensed from a generic library.

  • Founded 1921 as the USDA Graduate School; 500,000+ government employees trained across 125+ agencies
  • ACCET-accredited (ACCET is a U.S. Department of Education-recognized accreditor)
  • Center for Leadership and Management runs ECQ-aligned executive development, including the Executive Potential Program since 1995
  • 200+ federally experienced subject-matter experts across 400+ courses and certificates
  • Available on an active GSA MAS Schedule (SINs 611430 and 541611)

Questions agencies ask

The answers training officers and program directors ask for most, in one place.

How does my agency buy training from Graduate School USA?
Graduate School USA holds GSA Multiple Award Schedule contract 47QRAA24D004K (SINs 611430 and 541611), so you can place a pre-priced order directly under FAR Subpart 8.4 without running an open-market procurement. We accept the SF-182, Schedule orders, government purchase orders, and purchase cards for micro-purchases.
Can we pay with an SF-182?
Yes. We accept the SF-182, purchase orders, and GSA Schedule orders under contract 47QRAA24D004K, and our group training team works with your training office on the paperwork.
What is the difference between private group training and open enrollment?
Open enrollment classes are scheduled public sessions anyone can register for, taken live online or at our Washington, DC campus at 1050 Connecticut Ave NW. Private group training delivers a course for your agency's own cohort, tailored to your mission and delivered onsite, live online, or blended.
Can employees train self-paced, and still take the live class later?
Yes. Our self-paced online courses let a learner start anytime and work at their own pace, and when you buy the self-paced course the learner may also attend the live instructor-led course for free within one year.
Can courses be tailored to our agency?
Yes. We tailor existing courses to reflect your agency's mission, policies, and real cases, and we can develop new courses for unique requirements, all delivered under GSA contract 47QRAA24D004K.
Can training be delivered virtually or in person?
Both. Courses are offered as live virtual instruction or in-person onsite at your facility or at our Washington, DC location, and some programs blend live sessions with self-paced work.
What if an employee needs to repeat a class?
We offer one free retake of a class within one year, so a first attempt is never wasted if someone is reassigned, deployed, or needs a refresher before applying the material.
What's new in your federal grants management training?
Our curriculum is refreshed to current federal law, policy, and practice; we added new AI courses for the federal workforce; courses now run in a modern learning portal, and self-paced courses add an always-available AI coach; and self-paced online options let a learner start anytime and still take the live class for free within a year.
We have staff who make awards and staff who receive them. Which certificate goes to which group?
The Grants Federal Personnel Certificate Program is built for agency grant-making staff and covers program design, pre-award risk, award structuring, and performance and compliance oversight. The Grants Recipient Certificate Program is for award recipients and covers grant law, application development, financial administration, subawards, and audit readiness. If you want one program that walks the full lifecycle under 2 CFR 200, the Grants Management Certificate Program covers Uniform Guidance, cost principles, monitoring, internal control, and audit prep. All three run 14 days.
An audit is coming and our grant files are uneven. What do we send people to first?
The Internal Control, Audit and Fraud Prevention area is built for that point in the cycle: Internal Control for Grants, Auditing Grants, the Audit Prep Workshop for Federal Grants, and Detecting and Preventing Federal Grant Fraud. Offices whose exposure sits on the cost side usually pair those with Cost Principles for Grants and Financial Administration of Federal Grants. If the weak files are subrecipient files, Managing and Monitoring Subawards addresses the pass-through side directly.

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