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What's your
Grants Oversight
Challenge?
With great funding comes great responsibility.
With great responsibility comes great challenges.
Complex Regulations and Guidance
Compliance Missteps
Thousands of pages of laws and regulations can make testing standards in the field an intricate endeavor.
You'll stay focused with a compliance matrix of legal standards. We will help you keep tabs on ever-evolving Federal standards.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
Compliant Programs
Too Few Staff to Manage Large-Scale Grants
Overwhelm
Managing funds and coordinating oversight for large-scale grant programs is complicated. Insufficient staffing hampers timely retooling, expansion, or creation of oversight programs.
Expand your oversight capacity with our grant experts. Avoid delays caused by in-house hiring processes and avoid pension, onboarding and off-boarding costs.
Achieved Outcomes
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
Weak Fraud Prevention Protocols
Weak Fraud
Prevention Protocols
With a massive influx of new funds comes vulnerabilities to fraud. Fraudsters take advantage in dynamic environments with processes still being built.
Institute a continuum of effective controls to prevent, detect, investigate, and respond to fraud.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
A Complete
Oversight Continuum
Confusing Processes and Uncertain Outcomes
Confusing Processes & Uncertain Outcomes
Organizational silos, undocumented work plans, and lack of grants management manuals and monitoring plans create confusing processes and uncertain outcomes.
Systematize your monitoring program. You'll access specialized tools and systems to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of grants management and monitoring.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
Systemized &
Compliant Program
Monitoring Standards without Meaning
Too Much Emphasis on Check-the- Box Compliance
Quick and efficient compliance programs are important, but over-emphasis on insignificant standards can distract program leadership from the mission.
Basic compliance passes the Federal government's muster, but meaningful programs focus on impact - and flexible grant regulations encourage that.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
Oversight that Promotes Compliance and Impact
Lack of Technical Assistance
Under-Trained Team
Managing a large-scale grant program requires a highly trained team with the appropriate knowledge, skill, and discipline. A lack of any of these elements can jeopardize your program's success.
Your team will be trained on the intricacies of Federal grant principles and requirements. Then we will train your grantees, especially first-time grantees who are still grasping the lay of the land.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
Proficient Team
The Vander Weele Group is here to help.
The Vander Weele Group provides turn-key grants oversight programs. We systemize your management, training, and report operations. We provide expertise and capacity to help your organization operate smoothly.
Want to refresh your grants program? We help you visualize your ideal program and develop pathways to achieve it. We streamline your grants operations to make them more effective, efficient, and compliant.
Ready to turn your roadmap into action? Whether you need work procedures, risk assessment methodologies or monitoring tools, let us build your program infrastructure.
Need to train your team on your work procedures, internal controls, fraud prevention, or the latest rules? We develop customized training for your team and your grantees on a broad array of grant topics.
Not enough staff to execute your vision? Make your grants oversight program turn-key with our grants oversight programs. With our extensive experience in fraud mitigation, we expertly identify and address indicators of fraud.
What We Do
The Vander Weele Group provides turn-key oversight solutions for federal and state grant programs. We specialize in monitoring large-scale programs nationwide, combining grants monitoring expertise with industry-specific program experience. The firm offers traditional fiscal and compliance reviews, programmatic monitoring, risk assessments, internal control reviews, data analytics to detect fraud, best practice recommendations, and technical assistance for grantees.
Industries We Serve
Education
Labor
Utilities
Community Affairs
Early Childhood
Construction
Why Hire a Grants Oversight Firm?
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Gain specialized expertise that otherwise would take years to build in-house.
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Spend less time on day-to-day management and more time on big-picture implementation.
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Retool oversight programs quickly.
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Avoid delays caused by government hiring processes.
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Access logistical experience and technical tools.
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Avoid pension, onboarding, and off-boarding costs inherent in government agencies.
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Benefit from fresh perspectives based on national trends.
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Create an independent source of insight and fraud prevention expertise.