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    Government Contract & Grant Compliance

    Track what you agreed to deliver. Show what your program accomplished.

    Arclight helps nonprofits and government contractors meet the performance and reporting requirements of their contracts and grants. We start with the agreement and the systems your staff already use. Together, we identify what you need to track, who will record it, and what evidence will support each report to a government agency or grantmaker.

    How Arclight can help

    Review requirements and reporting systems

    We map deliverables, targets, deadlines, and required records, then review your forms, spreadsheets, or databases to see where information is missing or difficult to verify.

    Set up tracking and evaluate results

    We help your team define measures, assign responsibility, and build data collection into daily work. We look at both what the program delivered and what changed for the people it served.

    Collect data, analyze results, and prepare reports

    Arclight can gather and check records, calculate progress against targets, and prepare reports for your agency or grantmaker. When a target is missed, we help you document what happened and what the program is doing about it.

    Experience behind the work

    Arclight founder Lance McNeill has designed, managed, and evaluated nonprofit programs. As Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at Business and Community Lenders of Texas, he tracked and reported deliverables and outcomes under City of Austin contracts and developed additional measures to understand the program’s impact. At UT Austin, he studied nonprofit evaluation through the RGK Center’s Portfolio Program in Nonprofit Studies and was a Curtis W. Meadows, Jr. Social Enterprise Fellow.