Experience

Assisting clients from major metropolitans to rural townships

At Northey Government Services, we've helped groups from small,  volunteer-based housing non-profits to metropolitan cities, rural counties to state departments. While we frequently are hired by larger technical assistance firms to provide assistance, local cities and states also hire us directly. 

Clients

Technical Assistance Providers:  


Grantees:


Example Projects

CDBG-DR Transition:  

A state was transitioning the management of its CDBG-DR awards from one division, to a new organization set up specifically to manage the grants.  Capital Access had an assignment to provide guidance to the grantee during this transition process and help them get their program stood up for some new CDBG-DR Grants since there was not much desire to port over many of the division practices.

Josh Northey worked directly with the head of the new organization on the financial management certifications, creating and admin budget and plan, general business practice rules, activity types and eligible uses, miscellaneous program requirements and cross-cutting regulations, and especially DRGR reporting and the flow of information between the State and its partners.  

Assistance included on-site trainings, 1-on-1 and small group capacity building, Remote TA, document review, draft and sample documents.


State NSP Closeout:  

Large Neighborhood Stabilization Program (NSP) with serious problems in DRGR data stemming from serious internal issues with grant management.  Josh received a pair of contracts from them to work on helping them untangle this mess.  This involved working through a couple different staffing regimes and with some low capacity staffing elements to basically reconstruct the entirety of the grants financial and performance data, as well as renewed collection of missing data from long dormant subgrantees.  Additionally, there were some financial issues and missteps that took some quite complicated problem solving to identify and correct due to the state’s financial system not handling program income almost at all, and years of neglect and non-reconciliation of DRGR information, with program information, with internal information.

Eventually through a few on-site visits, and many, many remote TA sessions and capacity building sessions we were able to get most of this squared away and the financial issues down to a manageable level where existing staff could move forward with the administration of the grant.


City CDBG-DR Timeliness Issues:  

A city government (grantee) had serious CDBG-DR timeless issues with its grants, as well as DRGR reporting issues, and many program questions.  A technical assistance (TA) provider, Minnesota Housing Partnership, had multiple TA assignments to assist them, as within a year or 18 months the staff managing the program changed 3 times.  TA focused on duplication of benefits rules and best practices, capacity building on CDBG regulation and cross-cutting requirements, financial management and DRGR TA.  Grantee received much remote TA, and on-site small group sessions and 1-on 1 capacity building on a variety of program topics.  Twice new staff needed to be stood up from basically scratch.

Federal Funding Experience

Commercial District Revitalization and Neighborhood Engagement