Why your tribe needs to standardize your grant management practices and how you can achieve centralization 

• Introduction
• History of the need for standardization in grant management
  • ATB 
  • UGG
  • Cares Act
• How legislation has defined “standardization” for the grant management industry
  • Transparency
  • Compliance
• How to standardize your grant management efforts
  • Unique Challenges for Tribal Governments
  • Create a Central Grants Office
  • Adopt software
  • Create structured policies 
  • Define data reporting requirements and standards
    • Have configurable reporting to filter for COVID-19 funds
    • Give the central team access and visibility to the funds 
    • Tag funds with meta-data to allow for tracking down through the award to the recipient 
    • Link all outputs to the meta-data 
    • Allow for report segmentation
    • Link outputs to funds  
    • Code funds for central tracking and reporting
• Conclusion 

Presenter:

Adam Roth is the founder and President of AmpliFund, the leading enterprise grant management software platform.

Adam is one of nine grant reporting executives to sit on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) DATA Act pilot program board. Adam works closely with industry and government officials to facilitate the development of improved regulatory guidelines for managing grant funding using standardized data structures, speaking frequently on the topic to audiences around the country. As a result of his work, he was honored with the NGMA Impact Award/Private Sector for exceptional contributions to advancing the field of grant management.

Skill Level:
Early-Career
Mid-Career
Advanced-Career

Learning Path: 
Federal Grants
Grant Management/Budgets

GPC Competencies:
Strategies for effective program and project design and development
Post-award grant management practices sufficient to inform effective grant design and development
Practices and services that raise the level of professionalism of grant developers