Welcome New CAPP Partner Accenture!

Accenture helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations and enhance citizens and customer services. They provide a comprehensive array of grant strategy, pursuit and implementation services to state and local governments, higher education and non-profit organizations across the U.S. Accenture’s grant engagements, expertise and offerings span strategic planning, project and initiative management, partnership development and coordination, compliance and performance tracking, representing best-in-class solutions to support and maximize the benefits of the full grant lifecycle.

Q. What do you love about grants management?

Grants are a foundational tool for helping states, communities, and constituents achieve important missions – advancing sustainability initiatives, providing financial support and services to underserved communities, enhancing technology accessibility, all leading to a better future for the generations to come. Effective grants management is critical to maximizing available funding opportunities—from upfront identification and strategy development, to application, compliance, and closeout—and is meaningful work that creates a visible impact to our country.

Grant Managers are entrusted with the responsibility to ensure that public or foundation funds are administrated in a fair and transparent way that maximize the impact toward the goals and objectives of the program.  When done well, we love to see the impact these programs have on the individuals and communities they serve.

Q. What would you like NGMA members to know about your company?

• Accenture has a wide breadth and depth of federal funds and grants management experience, having worked across a multitude of industries and state and local government entities.

• Accenture knows federal funds strategy and management intimately and has built a team of top experts. We supported clients with federal funds and grants management through the pandemic – and continue to support many state and local municipalities with similar projects today. Accenture has been a trusted partner to over 15 states and localities, along with over 20 private and nonprofit clients in their federal funds and grants management efforts.

• Accenture understands federal, state, and local government process and reporting requirements, and how to use next-generation technology and data to meet those requirements and the expectation of constitutions.

• Accenture has strategic partnership with companies like Google, Microsoft, and Salesforce focused on developing industry solutions.

• Accenture SONG, the company’s services that reinvent customer experience to meet clients’ accelerated demand, provides key supporting activities to enable an optimal customer experience, effective communications, process management, decision making, and escalations throughout the entire grant lifecycle process. Our engagement and outreach strategies take into consideration diverse stakeholders, channels of engagement, and modes of communication, and will be instrumental to any programs’ success. Consider applications such as Broadband stakeholder engagement or constituent awareness campaigns for rebate programs.

• Accenture’s public service practice has 1000s of professionals whose focus and priority is to serve our public sector clients who are providing essential services to individuals and communities.  We are proud of the meaningful work that matters to our communities.

• Accenture has acquired Anser Advisory, an advisory and management company for infrastructure projects with a 30-year history of delivering projects for public agencies across the United States. Anser provides full end-to-end support from P3 advisory, to the tactical execution, management, and closeout of projects and programs, and is a national leader in the ideation, analytics, and execution of complex programs.

Q. What is a surprising fact about your company?

Accenture is a leader in AI and has invested $3 billion in research and development. The company’s AI expertise spans more than 1,450 patents and pending patent applications worldwide and hundreds of client solutions at scale, ranging from marketing to retail and security to manufacturing. We believe AI has the potential to drive significant efficiency gains state and local governments and nonprofits in grants management and improve entities’ ability to maximize funds.

Q. How can NGMA members connect with you?

For more information about Accenture, visit our website.