1. NGP White Paper Series Committee Update January 23, 2007 Presenting on behalf of the WPSC: Kathleen Juza, Bearing Point

2. 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.

3. Objectives of WP#3  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

4. Progress to Date Completed survey of NGP members to gather initial empirical data Developed initial draft interview questions Distributed interview assignments

5. 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

6. 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@tcg.com)david.cassidy@tcg.com –Kathleen Juza, BearingPoint (kathleen.juza@bearingpoint.com)kathleen.juza@bearingpoint.com