When thinking about minimizing risk with your grantees there are 4 areas we are going to focus on:

• Best practices for selecting your grantees
• Establishing strong internal controls
• What to do during the life cycle of the grant if you receive a whistleblower compliant
• Next steps for addressing the compliant and establishing a corrective action plan

Monitor the following:

• Confirm that existing polices and procedures and understood and adhered to
• Ensure charges to all grants are reasonable, allocable and allowable
• Make sure the grantee is applying organizational policies uniformly to all grants
• Verify that spending is adequately documented Developing your Whistleblower Policy and key tips on how to handle complaints