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Our Trainings
•Sink or Swim: Building a Strategic Planning Process for Spending your ARPA Funding* •Watch Your Step: Navigating the Political Pitfalls of Spending Your ARPA Funding* •What does ARPA have to do with the Price of Eggs? 96 Ways to Spend Your ARPA Funding* •Review the Guide: Mandatory Compliance Reporting for ARPA SLFRP Funds* •Staffing your ARPA Program: A Human Resources Planning Guide* •How to Select an ARPA Grants Management Firm* •Replacing Lost Public Sector Revenue •Premium Pay for Essential Workers •Water, Sewer, and Broadband Infrastructure •Determining Revenue Loss under ARPA •Responding to the Public Health Emergency under ARPA •Impacted Industries under ARPA •Responding to Negative Economic Impacts and Impacted Classes under COVID •Building Economic Development under ARPA •How ARPA can be used to Address Crime •Capital Expenditures under ARPA •How ARPA combats Child Poverty
Some of the trainings we offer include:
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​The American Rescue Plan Act
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​​The Uniform Guidance​​
•What is the Uniform Guidance?* •What is an OMB Circular?* •Where is the Uniform Guidance located?* •Who Created the Uniform Guidance?* •What does the Uniform Guidance say about Subrecipient Monitoring?* •What is a Pass-Through Entity?* •What is a Subrecipient?* •What does the Uniform Guidance say about Internal Controls?* •What does the Uniform Guidance say about Conflicts of Interest* •What does the Uniform Guidance say about Allowable and Unallowable Costs* •What does the Uniform Guidance Say about Documentation?* •What does the Uniform Guidance say about Equipment?* •Questioned vs. Unallowable Costs: There's a Difference*
Other Legal Authorities
•Legal Authorities for BIE Schools including: - Indian Education Act - Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act - Public Law 95-561 – Education Amendments of 1978 - Public Law 100-297 Indian Education Act of 1988 - Tribally Controlled Schools Act (1988) - No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 - Every Student Succeeds Act of 2015 - Administrative Cost Grants, also called Tribal Grant Support Costs
Monitoring and Oversight
•Sequencing an Oversight Program* •6 Ways to Make Your Monitoring More Meaningful* •Public Interest or Self Interest? Conflicts of Interest in Grants Monitoring* •What the Watchdogs Say: Where Grant Monitoring Programs Fall Short* •10 Ways to Improve your Monitoring* •Keeping your Monitoring Program on Track with a Compliance Matrix* •Monitoring vs. Auditing: Knowing the Difference Protects Your Program* •How Buttoned Up is Your Grants Monitoring?* •How Auditors Get it Wrong on Risk Assessments* •Building Your Monitoring Program* •Beyond Subrecipient Monitoring: Using Data Analytics to Protect Grant Funds*
Detecting Fraud
•Definition of Fraud •Ten Signs of a Compromised Organization •The Fraud Triangle •Common Characteristics of Fraudsters •Oversight Continuum
Common Fraud Schemes, which includes:
•Bribes, Kickbacks, and Extortion •Bidding Schemes •Billing Schemes •Inventory Schemes •Payroll Schemes •False Statements and Claims •Conflicts of Interests •Other Schemes
Grant Management
•How Grants Flow •The Grants Lifecycle •Key Terms •The Application Process •Legal Standards •Allowable Costs under Grid Deployment Grants •Key Compliance Standards •Reporting •Monitoring and Audits