Our speaker will guide you through the process of preparing for your infrastructure grant award. This preparation will include ensuring compliance with post-award requirements, such as monitoring, record retention, closeout, and audit preparation. The speaker will emphasize federal funding and uniform guidance in this process.

Learning Objectives:

• Determine if you are “infrastructure grant ready”.
• Identify and mitigate risk prior to taking on federal grant funding.
• Ensure compliance with your federal award and uniform guidance by assisting them in navigating the post-award phase, including monitoring, closeout, and audit preparation.

This session will cover the most important financial concepts and terms encountered in federal grant applications and grant management requirements. The terms will be explained in plain language with plenty of examples to illustrate how they apply to the grant lifecycle in real life. Participants will be invited to help build a sample budget in real time.

Learning Objectives:

• Recall allowable vs. unallowable costs under Uniform Guidance.
• Explain the difference between direct, indirect, and cost-share requirements.
• Build a sample grant budget aligned with financial best practices.

Join fellow grant managers for our monthly community session. Share best practices, discuss compliance challenges, and learn from each other’s experiences.

The federal grants landscape is undergoing a structural shift — not just in policy, but in responsibility. As executive orders, budget proposals, and administrative actions accelerate change, states are becoming the new center of gravity for federal financial assistance. With more programs moving away from federal-level administration and toward state pass-through models, states must prepare to manage greater compliance discretion, increased oversight expectations, and a rapidly growing volume of subrecipient relationships. This session explores what these changes mean for state agencies today — and how to build the systems, staffing, controls, and governance necessary to operate as high-performing pass-through entities in the future. Participants will gain practical insights into capacity building, risk mitigation, and cross-state coordination strategies needed to ensure states can confidently administer a new era of federal funding.

Funders of grants are charged with ensuring strong performance and compliance of their grantees. This training will focus on principles, best practices, and systems for effective monitoring and oversight. We will present a practical approach to grant monitoring and illustrate the necessary systems to do this work well. Subject matter will include:

• Risk assessment of grantees
• Specific conditions to mitigate risk
• Types of monitoring
• Creation of a monitoring plan
• Drafting monitoring reports
• Resolution of monitoring issues and corrective action plans
• Using monitoring data to inform grant portfolio management
• Technical assistance to grantees
• Practical tips and techniques

Policies and procedures built with compliance, efficiency, and clarity lead to success in managing grants. We will cover key grants and financial management policies/procedures, and provide tools, samples, and checklists related to important policies/procedures for federal grants management. Participants will have an opportunity to submit policies and procedures in advance for review by Public Impact Advisors and will receive one hour of P&P technical assistance up to 30 days post-event. You will leave more prepared for strong grants/financial management systems and with an action plan for improvement of your policies and procedures. Topics covered include:

• Key policies/procedures for strong organizational, financial, and grants management
• A framework for policy/procedure development
• Key components of effective/compliant policies/procedures
• Guidance on developing an action plan for continuous improvement

Ensuring allowable costs is a must for federal grant recipients and subrecipients. We’ll explore key topics related to the financial/cost allowability side of grants management, including:

• Grantee financial management system requirements
• Key cost-related directives
• The reliable framework to ensure allowable costs on your federal grants
• Treatment of selected items of cost
• Practical application of cost-related requirements for important grants management functions, including budget preparation, spending decisions/justifications, grant monitoring, audit/monitoring resolution and corrective action; and when prior approval is required for cost-related grant changes.

Stay abreast of recent and emerging developments in federal grants management, including:

• 2 CFR 200 (Uniform Guidance) revisions
• Audit and monitoring trends
• Statutory and regulatory changes
• Presidential administration directives (including executive orders and grant termination/reinstatement implications)
• Artificial intelligence

Understand and get refreshed on the full grants management life cycle and best practices, including:

• Key attributes and premises of the federal grants system
• An overview of the Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR 200
• Internal Controls for Grants Management
• Post Federal Award Requirements (including Cost Sharing, Program Income, Budget and Program Changes, Property Standards, Procurement Standards, Subrecipient Monitoring and Management)
• Cost Allowability and Adequate Documentation
• Indirect Costs and Cost Allocation
• Common Pitfalls/Grants Management Myths
• Grants Management Scorecard (you’ll leave with an improvement plan for your organization’s grants management); and
• Federal Grants Management Updates (including new requirements/developments and current trends)

Our Federal Grant Management Webinar Series delivers live virtual training led by experienced federal grants experts who bring the latest compliance guidance directly to you. Each month, participants dive into essential topics—from Uniform Guidance updates and cost principles to audit readiness and risk management—ensuring you stay informed in an evolving regulatory landscape. Course Catalog

These interactive sessions allow you to ask questions in real time and receive practical, tailored answers to your organization’s specific challenges. Can’t attend live? No problem—registered participants receive on-demand access to each webinar recording for a full year.