Understand Stimulus Grant Regulation, Evaluation and Reporting Requirements
Tuition: $399.00 First Attendee Registration Fee
$99.00 Additional Attendee Registration Fee
In these tough economic conditions, nonprofit and public organizations face a constant battle for securing and sustaining funding. With the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, the grants landscape has fierce competition for a limited amount of monetary resources.
Register for this webinar today and learn the ins and outs of grants regulations and requirements so you can improve your performance through the grant lifecycle. Also, learn to develop clear and concise outcome measures to better report grant success to stakeholders.
You will learn how to:
• Stay compliant throughout the grants lifecycle and ensure accountability and transparency
• Design evaluation criteria to measure and improve program performance
• Communicate grant successes to grantors/funders via performance reporting in accordance to the Recovery Act
• Settle grant accounts completely to avoid unnecessary charges or audits
Day One: Develop Indirect Cost Rates
• Designing a cost accounting system to compute indirect rates
• Understand the links between direct and indirect costs and implement indirect cost rate allocation methodologies
Day Two: Stay Compliant: What You Need to Know About Financial Management for Grants
• Receive the latest updates on grant compliance requirements under the Recovery Act and other available funding sources
• Ensure proper resource allocation, oversight and management system necessary to ensure grants compliance, transparency and accountability
Day Three: Monitor the Money: Budget and Forecast Grants
• Review a budget template and budget narrative from the perspective of an agency’s budgeting process
• Estimate and forecast costs of program activities in regards to treatment of capital assets, and multi-year obligations
Day Four: Program Evaluation and Reporting
• Build and conduct frequent evaluation reports to assess grant program effectiveness and to make improvements
• Comply with stimulus legislation on reporting requirements and collection practices
Day Five: Grants Closeout and Audit Requirements
• Determine the appropriate procedures for settling accounts completely, including unexpended advances, interest and program revenue
• Examine closeout requirements and record retention guidelines
