Federal Grant Management
- Subject
- Federal Grant Management
- Date
- July 25, 2018
- Time
- 2:00 pm
- Place
- 2247 Rayburn HOB
PURPOSE:
- To examine opportunities to modernize the federal grantmaking process.
BACKGROUND:
- The federal government awards more than $700 billion in grants each year, of which nearly $600 billion is distributed to state and local governments.
- A complex grant management structure detracts from the purpose of the underlying grants by imposing burdensome and duplicative reporting requirements on grant recipients and federal grant managers. Federal grant managers reportedly spend 40 percent of their time using outdated processes to monitor compliance, rather than monitoring results.
- Efforts to modernize grant management are underway. Two recent initiatives include:
- H.R. 4887, the Grant Reporting Efficiency and Agreements Transparency (GREAT) Act, sponsored by Representatives Virginia Foxx (NC-R) and Jimmy Gomez (CA-D), which will transform federal grant reporting from disconnected documents to usable, machine-readable, standardized data;
- The President’s Management Agenda (PMA), which calls for an integrated, data-centric strategy to standardize grant reporting and alleviate compliance burdens.
Witnesses and testimonies:
Mr. Hudson Hollister
Executive Director
Data Coalition
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Director, Strategic Issues
Government Accountability Office
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Deputy Assistant Secretary Office of Grants and Acquisition Policy and Accountability OS/ASFR/OGAPA
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
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Senior Policy Advisor
Project on Government Oversight
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Analyst American Federalism and Emergency Management
Congressional Research Service
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