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What's your
Grants Oversight
Challenge?
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Weak Fraud Prevention Protocols
Vulnerable Processes
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
With great funding comes great responsibility.
With great responsibility comes great challenges.
Confusing Processes with Unclear Outcomes
Confusing Processes and Uncertain Outcomes
Organizational silos, undocumented work plans, and lack of grants management manuals and monitoring plans create focusing processes and uncertain outcomes.
Systematize your monitoring program. You'll access specialized tools and systems to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of grants management.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
Systemized and Compliant Program
Complex Regulations and Guidance
Compliance Misteps
Thousands of pages of laws and regulations can make testing standards in the field an intricate endeavour.
You'll keep focused with a compliance matrix of legal standards. We help you keep tabs on ever-evolving Federal standards.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
Compliant Programs
Lack of Technical Assistance
Under-Trained Team
Managing a large-scale grant program requires a highly trained team with 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 train your grantees, especially first-time grantees who are still grasping the lay of the land.
Proficient Team
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
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
Monitoring Standards without Meaning
Too Much Emphasis on
Check-the-Box
Compliance
Oversight that Promotes
Compliance and Impact
With a massive influx of new funds comes vulnerabilities to fraud. Fraudsters take advantage in dynamic environments with processes still being built.
Basic compliance passes Feds' muster, but meaningful programs focus on impact - and flexible grant regulations encourage that.
Today's Reality
Tomorrow's Vision
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
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Why Choose Us?
1. We Know the Law.​​
​Our success depends on deep analysis and current knowledge of federal and state regulatory guidance.
2. We're Experts in the Fields We Serve.​​
We hire skilled professionals with firsthand experience in the fields they cover.
3. We're Impartial.​​
As outsider observers, we’re incentivized to provide you with only objective, defensible, meaningful information.
4. We Take A Comprehensive Approach.​​
Unlike auditing firms, we're more than just accountants. We draw on expertise from multiple professions to ensure robust performance and offer the full spectrum of oversight services.
5. We Make Monitoring Meaningful.​​
We believe that oversight should not be punitive, but a meaningful process that improves both program compliance AND quality.
"Each year, the Vander Weele Group has effectively met or exceeded its monitoring goals on time and within budget. The team has become a true partner, delivering more than monitoring services. They have made significant contributions to enhanced accountability and improved child outcomes in Early Intervention.
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I heartily recommend the Vander Weele Group as a competent, caring, and professional organization."