Has there been outreach to the grantee community outside of the NIH Guide for Grants and Contracts?
NIH staffers have reached out and will continue to reach out to the grantee community through websites, notices and presentations to professional associations such as the Society for Research Administrators (SRA), the National Council of University Research Administrators (NCURA), presentations and booths at scientific conferences, press releases, newsletter articles. Many staff are using signature blocks that give notice of the change, information is being added to e-mail notification of summary statement availability and prior approval letters, targeted emails will go out to business officials and principal investigators, “looking ahead” notice on funding opportunity announcements, etc. See http://era.nih.gov/ElectronicReceipt/communication.htm for more information.
