NGP White Paper Series Committee Update

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NGP White Paper Series Committee Update

• January 23, 2007
• Presenting on behalf of the WPSC
• Kathleen Juza, Bearing Point

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Current Topic

• Use of Standards in Grants Management
• Real World Applications of Grants Management
  Business, Data, and Technical Standards
• Grants streamlining demands standardization of
  business processes, technologies, and data
  elements throughout the grants enterprise.
• Adopting standards decreases data redundancy,
  condenses stovepipes, and reduces duplicative
  work.
• As the GMLOB moves forward, development of
  standards will become more acute.

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Objectives of WP3

• Explore the need for and development of grants
  management standards
• Demonstrate how standards are being applied today
• Explore how standards might be created and
  implemented in the future
• Prepare government grant-makers and grant
  recipients for changes wrought by GMLOB
• Relate grants streamlining to the need for
  business, data, and technical standards
• Encourage conversation among all grants
  enterprise stakeholders

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Progress to Date

• Completed survey of NGP members to gather initial
  empirical data
• Developed initial draft interview questions
• Distributed interview assignments

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Next Steps

• Finalize interview questions Purpose of
  interview questions is to focus interviews on
  common themes around which the paper will be
  developed.
• Conduct Interviews During the initial survey,
  several grants management professionals
  volunteered to participate in interviews with
  whitepaper committee members regarding their use
  of grants management standards
• By conducting interviews, hope to discover more
  about the prevalence (or lack) of standards in
  the grants enterprise
• Basis for paper outline and future work on the
  paper
• Develop detailed outline and make writing
  assignments
• This will involve a brainstorming session upon
  completion of the interviews to outline the paper
• Assign whitepaper sections to specific reviewers

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Next Steps

• Solicit more volunteers! For all of these roles,
  we are seeking volunteers involved in some way in
  designing or implementing grants management data
  standards.
• WP Lead Formerly Gretchen Greiner, Government of
  the District of Columbia
• Project Lead Responsible for project
  coordination and direction
• Authors Responsible for conducting interviews
  and writing sections of the paper
• We have currently had expressions of interest
  from AK, DC, IN, MI, MS, OK, PA, TX, TN, as
  well as representatives from Federal Government,
  Tribal, Faith-based and Non-profit organizations.
• Reviewers Responsible for reviewing the drafts
  at key stages in the papers development
• Editors Responsible for final revisions and
  proofing
• If interested, please contact the co-chairs
• Dave Cassidy, TCG (202-742-8471 /
  david.cassidy_at_tcg.com)
• Kathleen Juza, BearingPoint (kathleen.juza_at_bearing
  point.com)