Guardrails 360™
Like a massive ship setting out to distant ports, distributing grant funds to pass-through entities and subrecipients is an endeavor that deserves to be protected. Without the right defenses, that voyage risks failure and compromise through fraud, waste, and abuse, resulting in costly corrective actions and damaged programmatic performance. At the Vander Weele Group, we build the guardrails to ensure your valuable cargo reaches its destination safely and successfully.
Challenges and threats to your grant programs can come from any direction. Mitigating risk takes time, staff and resources that your agency may not have. The Vander Weele Group can help identify vulnerabilities and prevent adverse events before they occur.
We specialize in full-lifecycle grants oversight. Following our comprehensive Guardrails 360™ platform, we act as your independent and experienced quality control team, aligning spending to program goals and setting up critical safety checkpoints that prevent compliance and operational issues.
We take a bird's-eye view of your grant programs and build a powerful system of oversight that proactively identifies and mitigates risks, prevents fraud, and ensures your program is not only compliant but also operationally effective and successful. Our integrated services provide the essential safety and support you need at every stage of the grant lifecycle.
Oversight begins with a 360° perspective.
How We Batten Down Your Grant Program
Shore Up Your Defenses
We examine every part of your program through 748 grants lifecycle activities. We then identify and fill any gaps. When processes are missing or not well defined, we draw from our vast resources to help your team build and document them properly.
Plotting the Course
We map the legal and regulatory framework, charting requirements from the Uniform Guidance, Executive Orders, federal policy and authorizing legislation, correlating each standard to the appropriate activity to ensure every stage of your grant is both compliant and secure.
Preventing Piracy
With decades of experience in the fraud control arena, our team provides an added measure of safety by inspecting fraud prevention measures including analyzing internal controls, applying expert analysis to data, and asking thoughtful questions across the stakeholder ecosystem. We bring creative policy solutions to prevent, detect, and resolve matters involving fraud and abuse.
Making Monitoring Meaningful
Our integrated grant oversight services are designed to work synergistically to reinforce and protect your grants programs and ensure compliance and programmatic performance. Our Meaningful Monitoring service is a strategic approach to grants monitoring that asks not only if programs are meeting objectives, but whether they are meeting them well.