Straying too far from your approved plan can jeopardize project success, continued funding, or both. TASC’s project management services may be the ounce of prevention you need.

TASC can set up timelines, monitoring tools, and reminder systems for program and evaluation activities, reports, and other administrative tasks to ensure that no due dates are overlooked.

TASC can help you keep track of funder-specific requirements such as background checks, mandatory meetings, and specialized training as well as aid you with preparing staff and materials for monitoring visits.

TASC can assist you by reviewing monthly expenditures to ensure compliance with the approved budget and your funder’s allowability restrictions.

TASC can help you prepare convincing requests for program or budget modifications, no-cost extensions, or carryover funding.

Many organizations struggle to ensure that once a grant is received, staff understand and execute the project as approved. TASC can help you stay on track, on time, and on budget.

Selected Projects

Managed St. Ann’s Center for Children, Youth and Families’ year-long reaccreditation process focusing on governance, finance, risk management, human resources, ethics, and service provision. Assisted senior staff in developing detailed work plans outlining the Council on Accreditation (COA) requirements, milestones, and due dates. Planned and conducted monthly capacity building sessions to ensure that senior staff understood the standards and how to prepare evidence of compliance. Worked with the VP of Programs to create a comprehensive performance and quality improvement plan, including logic models for each program. Worked with the CEO to develop a risk management framework and report to the Board. Reviewed more than 60 policies and procedures, and revised them as necessary. Used PowerPoint to create a quiz game to help staff memorize key points of important policies. Served as liaison to the COA site visit team.

Managed the District of Columbia Public Schools’ Impact Aid annual grant application that secured more than $1.2 million in revenue. Impact Aid is a federal grant program for school districts that have lost property tax revenue due to the presence of tax-exempt federal property, or experienced increased expenditures due to the enrollment of “federally connected children.” Payments are only made for those students whose eligibility can be documented by the deadline, so communication and coordination with teachers, principals, and data entry staff was crucial to maximizing funds. The complicated application process included sending a personalized parent-student survey home with more than 45,000 students to identify those who were eligible. Once surveys were returned, staff had to determine how many students fell into various categories: children of members of the military, children living on federal property or in federally subsidized housing, children whose parents worked on federal property, and children falling into more than one of these categories — with or without disabilities. This information was then used to complete the Impact Aid application.