Grants Management
We support public sector and commercial entities by providing services across the grants management life cycle.
Our experience
Deloitte has more than 40 years of experience assisting with the design, modernization, implementation, administration, monitoring, and close out federal and state grant programs. We have helped clients across a broad range of complex missions - health, financial services, infrastructure, sustainability, and disaster recovery to enhance the impact of billions of grant dollars.
Our services
We help clients accomplish the strategic goals of their grant program and design operationally efficient capabilities through training, process reengineering, policy development, and technology enablement. Because client needs and priorities vary, we organize our services into Disaster and Non-Disaster grants management.
Our disaster grants offering assists federal, state, local, higher education, and private non-profit (PNP) entities as they recover from natural and human-made disasters. Our services and solutions focus on assisting these entities to manage or capture the funds distributed through the suite of federal grant programs supporting community recovery.
Grant management and administration
We assist clients in the management and administration of grants related to Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), Public Assistance (PA), Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Community Development Block Grants - Disaster Recovery (CDBG-DR), and Federal Highway Administration - Emergency Relief (FHWA-ER).
Grant monitoring and oversight
Our team brings decades of monitoring and oversight experience, including FEMA, CDBG-DR, and other federal recovery programs.
Hazard mitigation
We assist our clients with their FEMA grants associated with sections 404, 406, and 428 of the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program (HMGP). In addition, we also assist our clients with FEMA Building Resilient Infrastructure and Communities (BRIC) grants and CDBG Mitigation (CDBG-MIT).
Building on our extensive experience helping clients manage the risks and opportunities associated with diverse and complex grant programs, we assist grantors and grantees in applying for and administering grants with end-to-end services and solutions for programs in health and human services, transportation, education, infrastructure, and community development among others.
Grants strategy
We assist our clients in analyzing current risks, capabilities, and capacity as well as help reduce future uncertainty related to the pursuit of grant-funded ambitions.
Grant capabilities transformation
We configure and implement impactful enhancements to governance, talent, process, and technology capabilities that help clients facilitate more effective, efficient, and compliant grant activities and outcomes. We advise on designing and implementing organizational infrastructure for entities across the grants management ecosystem, including grantors, grantees, and subrecipients.
Grant program administration
We leverage technology-enabled assets and hybrid-operate capabilities to assist with the operationalization of end-to-end grants management responsibilities, including application intake, case management, eligibility determination, reimbursement processing, reporting, compliance monitoring, and closeout of grant programs issued under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act, American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA), Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA), Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), and Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce Semiconductors (CHIPS) Act.
Our approach
We focus on program-wide aspects of grants management and compliance with government-wide standards, including implementation of pre- and post-award risk assessments, disaster responses, audit preparedness, oversight over business processes, and implementation of internal controls to support strong stewardship of grant funds.
Analyze funding opportunities that align with long-term priorities and goals, while also maximizing available federal funds.
Support adherence to eligibility requirements, collect required documentation, and review applications prior to submission.
Assess and adhere to contractual terms and conditions associated with the awarded grant funds.
Disburse funding, perform subrecipient monitoring, collect data, and monitor compliance. QA/QC disbursed federal dollars to grant-funded projects, allocate the applicable amount of grant funding at the subrecipient level, and perform ongoing compliance and monitoring activities to adhere to program and federal regulations and reduce the risk of fraud, waste, and abuse.
Assist in the preparation of federal audits and confirm that final documentation has been submitted by the recipients and subrecipients of the grant funding.
Our core capabilities
We help our clients address complex challenges across the entire grants life cycle with our services and solutions. Leveraging our leading-edge grant tools and accelerators, we help clients simplify and accelerate the recovery experience. Additionally, we offer a suite of technology solutions and services through Deloitte's GovConnectGRANTS™: a repository of configurable modules that can facilitate the work our clients do at every phase of the grants life cycle. Using our core capabilities, we have assisted many clients to effectively reduce cost, create collaborative synergies, achieve quality and consistency of audit trails, and foster confidence in generating meaningful and lasting results.
Who we work with
Federal
We assist grantors responsible for large grant programs. Assistance may include activities to
execute end-to-end grants management functions to shared service offices that build and maintain
enterprise-wide grants systems. We also use analytics to help grantors increase efficiencies and
use data visualization and reporting to enhance federal oversight.
State
We assist state grantees who are administering federal funds to their subrecipients.
Assistance may include activities to establish strategy; business processes; and grant
operating models, along with grants management systems and tools for reimbursement requests;
closeout; and financial modeling/accounting assistance; as well as private and public-facing dashboards.
Local
We assist local government and higher education subrecipients with their various grant needs.
Assistance may include applying for federal grant programs, grant formulation, understanding
compliance requirements, project management, reporting and accounting, technical assistance,
and other grant-specific requirements.
Commercial
We leverage our experience working with federal and state governments to help streamline
processes for commercial entities that are new to the federal grant world. We assist them
in using federal grant funding, application creation, aligning policies and procedures to
federal regulations, project design and management, cost tracking, and reporting.
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