Building a Resilient Education Grant Program: Automation, Agility, Compliance and Real-World Success

Education agencies are at a critical inflection point: they must innovate their processes while maintaining rigorous compliance standards—often with limited or at-risk resources. Build your readiness to meet these challenges by joining your peers managing grant programs, scholarships and funding opportunities for a live conversation packed with actionable strategies and spotlights of programs just like yours getting it right. 

This session provides education grant managers with strategies to automate compliance processes, design agile funding programs, and implement powerful workflows that dramatically increase their efficiency and capacity. Through real-world case studies from leading education agencies, participants will gain actionable insights into how technology and process innovation can transform grant management operations.

Key topics include:

• Building advanced compliance automation systems that streamline monitoring while meeting federal requirements

• Applying the agile grant design framework to quickly adapt initiatives to changing needs and funding environments

• Implementing fraud prevention strategies that maintain program integrity without introducing additional burden on applicants or awardees

Learning from success stories, including:

• A State Department of Education that developed an automated eligibility calculator for their school choice program, reducing administrative errors while accurately determining financial need

• A major urban school district that streamlined the student experience through a unified application system serving multiple schools, simplifying access while maintaining rigorous eligibility verification

• A State Higher Education Authority that transformed its grant management process from a fragmented email-based system to a centralized platform, reducing program setup time from over a week to just one hour while supporting nearly 40 colleges and eliminating application restrictions

Who should attend:

• Organizations: State Education Departments/Agencies, School Districts, Higher Education State Boards, Colleges and Universities, Education Service Agencies

• Roles: Grant Managers, Program Directors, Funding Managers, Compliance Officers, Financial Officers, Technology Directors

Whether you're managing established programs or preparing for new funding opportunities, this webinar will equip you with proven approaches to revolutionize your grant management practices, reduce administrative burden, and maximize your impact on education.