Upcoming Webinars
The New Grants Paradigm: A Regulatory Overview
Date: Wednesday, February 18, 2026
Time: 1 p.m. EST (12 p.m. CST)
Location: Microsoft Teams
Federal grants recipients have been buffeted by changing eligibility, funding, reporting, and oversight requirements in recent years, through Executive orders, circular letters, the Federal Register and court decisions, to name a handful.
Regulatory revisions and directives have run the gamut from providing Federal agencies more flexibility (implementing the National Environmental Policy Act),and providing states more flexibility (options re: funding and reporting for childcare facilities), to streamlining Federal processes (efforts by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to shorten the permitting wait time) and adding to the Federal process (Defend The Spend), to abolishing programs wholesale (Solar for All).
We will use this webinar to explore the means by which the Administration is advancing its new paradigm, the implications for practitioners, and how to adapt to a shifting compliance landscape.
A Q&A session will follow the presentation.
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About the Speaker
Elizabeth MacKay serves as the Vander Weele Group's Director of New Initiatives, leading the firm’s growth and service development efforts in emerging industries. Since 2023, she has focused on developing training programs and educational content for state agencies and utilities participating in new Department of Energy grid resiliency programs. She also serves as a project manager for several of the firm’s fiscal oversight engagements, including with the New Jersey Housing and Mortgage Finance Agency.
Liz is a regulatory and compliance expert with more than 10 years of experience in state and Federal procurement; internal audits; waste, fraud, and abuse prevention and mitigation; and disaster recovery programs. She has been invited to speak at national conferences in both the government and private sectors, including by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development and the National Hurricane Conference.
In her previous role as the Chief Legal Officer at the New Jersey Division for Disaster Recovery and Mitigation, Liz managed compliance for more than $10 billion dollars in Federal disaster recovery funds, including relief aid for Hurricanes Sandy and Ida and American Rescue Plan Act funds. Prior to that, she served as the Deputy Director for New Jersey’s Department of Consumer Affairs, a policy advisory to the Lt. Governor and Secretary of State, and a Federal prosecutor for the Eastern District of New York. A chartered financial analyst, Liz is a former Wall Street analyst, portfolio manager, and Chief Investment Strategist for several major investment firms, for which she was profiled in the New York Times. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Pace University and a Juris Doctorate from the Columbia School of Law.