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General TRIO Questions

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Membership Renewals for TRiO SSS

Hello! Could someone please provide guidance on which Code of Federal Regulations section covers allowable costs for memberships such as COE and NAEOP? When I submit a purchase request, I like to include a direct CFR citation that supports the expense. For this particular situation, the only citation that seems somewhat relevant is 34 CFR 646.30(c) regarding in‑service training of project staff, but I’m not sure this is the correct one to use. Any clarification would be greatly appreciated.


Thank you in advance!

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Lisa
Lisa
3 days ago

Institutional Memberships are allowable.


https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-2/section-200.454


§ 200.454 Memberships, subscriptions, and professional activity costs.

(a) Costs of the recipient's or subrecipient's membership in business, technical, and professional organizations are allowable.

(b) Costs of the recipient's or subrecipient's subscriptions to business, professional, and technical periodicals are allowable.

(c) Costs of membership in any civic or community organization are allowable.

(d) Costs of membership in any country club or social or dining club or organization are unallowable.

(e) Costs of membership in organizations whose primary purpose is lobbying are unallowable. See § 200.450.

Blumen - Ipads Needed?

Hey - we are starting our database migration to Blumen and are looking forward to streamlining our logging contacts process - will purchasing iPads be helpful for this process with the Blumen software? or Would that process be easy enough on a staff laptop?


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Lisa
Lisa
Dec 12, 2025

Hello - logging services provided (documentation) in Blumen is easy to do via staff laptops. Still, you can do it on iPads and even on your iPhone (too small for me!) via the Blumen App, which you can download. You can also use the iPads to have students sign in electronically (verification) via the BOLT feature in Blumen. Feel free to let me know if you have any more questions about migrating to Blumen.

Dawna Walls

Moderator

Attended the NEC TS PWW and has access to the TS Competition Forum

NEC TS PWW

TRIO Umbrella Regulations Free Course

Congratulations to all of you who have completed our TRIO Umbrella Regulations Free Course! You should have received a certificate and NEC digital badge.


We would love to get your feedback on the experience if you wouldn't mind completing a short survey at https://forms.wix.com/f/7394819635201180085.


If you enrolled in the course but have not yet started, here is your reminder 😀and the link: https://www.nosotrosedu.org/challenge-page/trio-umbrella-regulations-free-course


As you go through the course, please post questions for Lisa here in this group.


As always, contact me if you have any technical issues: dwalls@nosotrosedu.org


Have a great Monday!

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Returning Student

What would be the proper way to handle a student from the 2021 cohort who returned this year? She withdrew from the Summer Bridge Program and the college in 2021 when she was a new summer participant, and she was reported on the APR for that year. She returned for 2 summer classes this past summer, Summer 25, which means we will be reporting her as a prior participant who is not receiving SSS services on the 24-25 APR. She was not an active participant with us during the summer. We noticed she was enrolled again when we pulled data to work on the APR. She filled out an application to join the program. Would it be out of compliance to start her as a new student since we are starting a new grant cycle?

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Jennifer Cottrell
Oct 28, 2025

Her first service date was 6/30/21, and her last was 7/30/21. She has Ws on her transcript for the summer bridge classes that summer, so I know she didn't finish. We are a 2 year college.

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