VPD is a trusted partner to the HHS Administration for Children and Families (ACF), Office of Planning, Research, and Evaluation (OPRE), and the Office of Family Assistance (OFA). We provide integrated, responsive, and expert support for cross-cutting grants management administration, oversight, training, and monitoring for research programs across the Department of Health and Human Services. We enable innovation, partnerships, and coordinated efforts to improve grantee performance and grant solutions.
We oversee approximately $150M in grants funding for the Healthy Marriage and Responsible Fatherhood (HMRF) office within OFA. We also support the annual completion of project performance management for more than 89 grants, 7 grant programs, 61 individual grantees, and 3 cooperative agreements that support specific grant programs worth over a combined $160 million at OPRE. We specialize in the following:
Support grantees and grantee organizations with processing, administering, and managing a variety of human services, family, and youth-related grants. We oversee the pre-award and award process, including solicitation, selection, and training of panel chairs and reviewers.
Meet with grantees monthly to help them with performance improvement strategies or technical assistance as needed. We discuss programmatic requirements, assess participation rates, budget revisions, changes in scope, and ensure they are maintaining compliance with federal grant management regulations.
We assist in training panel chairs and panel reviewers for grants and grant applications. We help organize panel reviews, develop reports and funding memos, and various grant award documentation.
Collect all grants data from grants systems and analyze the data, grantee reports, and performance numbers to identify trends oremerging risks.
Experts in navigating grants management software, tools, and platforms to include nForm, GrantSolutions, and Grants.gov.