Modernizing Grant Management for Infrastructure Programs: From Manual Compliance to Real-Time Oversight

State and local agencies are being asked to administer increasingly complex, multi-year infrastructure grant programs—often with limited staff, evolving federal guidance, and heightened expectations for transparency, accountability, and audit readiness. Traditional, document-driven approaches to grant administration struggle to keep pace with these demands, leading to fragmented data, manual verification, and unnecessary risk.

This webinar explores how modern grant management systems (GMS) are transforming post-award administration by centralizing data, standardizing workflows, and enabling real-time oversight across the full grant lifecycle—from subrecipient onboarding through closeout and long-term performance monitoring. Drawing on real-world infrastructure programs such as broadband, attendees will see how configurable, cloud-native platforms support compliance with federal requirements, reduce administrative burden for both agencies and subrecipients, and create durable systems that can scale across multiple funding programs over time.

Participants will gain a practical framework for evaluating and implementing grant management technology that supports audit-ready operations, integrated performance and financial reporting, and long-term stewardship of public infrastructure investments. We’ll demonstrate these grant management concepts using a real infrastructure program environment, showing how these system capabilities work in practice.

Specifically, attendees will learn about:

• Core Capabilities of Modern Grant Management Systems: Understand the foundational components of a GMS designed for complex infrastructure programs, including centralized data management, role-based workflows, and standardized reporting.
• Designing for the Full Grant Lifecycle: Learn how agencies are managing onboarding, project plans, progress reporting, reimbursements, compliance documentation, and closeout within a single system—rather than across disconnected tools.
• Reducing Administrative Burden While Improving Oversight: See how automation, structured data intake, and integrated validation reduce manual effort for both grantors and subrecipients while improving accuracy and timeliness.
• Audit Readiness and Risk Management by Design: Explore how modern platforms embed audit trails, documentation retention, and risk monitoring directly into day-to-day grant operations.
• Scaling Across Programs and Funding Sources: Discover how agencies are extending a single grant management system to support multiple federal and state programs—such as broadband, infrastructure, and economic development, without rebuilding processes each time.