COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA                November 19, 2001 

DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION

 

ENVIRONMENTAL FUTURES PLANNING

 

ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION PLAN 

Team Name/Number or Organization

 

Prepared By:

Date:

Updated:

Grants Center

    

K.R. Young, Greg  Williams

8 Jan 02

 

 

 

Goal(s):

1-Sustain, conserve, protect, enhance, and restore Pennsylvania's environment, natural resources, and ecological diversity.

Indicator(s): 1- Number of lakes and surface water stream miles supporting their designated use for aquatic life.                  4 - Acres of land by use   

Objective(s):

Grants Center will simplify and improve the grants process to maximize the return on Growing Greener funds and other department funds.

 

 

Activities

What

When

Who

Status

1

Give and receive feedback from grantees and unsuccessful applicants.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

     

   1a

Conduct and improve both the workshops for applicants and the training for grant recipients, in order to refine the application process and expedite the executed grants.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

     

   1b

Expand the usefulness of the existing workshops as methods of gathering feedback regarding both existing application procedures, and program effectiveness.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

     

   1c

Keep the program website up to date.

Continually

Grants Center Staff

     

   1d

Amplify the capabilities of the program website to solicit feedback from both grantees and unsuccessful applicants.

Continually

Grants Center Staff

     

   1e

Systematically examine project final reports in an effort to identify aspects of the program that may require strengthening.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

     

2

Standardize goals and objectives.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   2a

Finalize and distribute final report guidance documentation.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   2b

Finalize and implement goals and objectives and objective reporting.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

3

Improve data management techniques and procedures, including the Green Project Bank.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   3a

Establish, utilize, and promote the Green Project Bank as a tool to implement additional environmental enhancement within existing budgetary limitations.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   3b

Work closely with other DEP grant programs, toward the establishment of a practical, and publicly assessable, grants database for all Department grants.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

4

Establish appropriate polices and procedures to make grants effective and efficient.

 

Grants Center Staff

 

   4a

Continue the grants improvement workgroup effort to formulate recommendations for betterment of all Departmental grants, and the grants process in general.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   4b

Convene, and participate in, regular meetings of watershed managers, grants advisors and others to solicit input and advice regarding policy and procedural improvement. 

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   4c

Seek additional methods of process improvement.

Continually

Grants Center Staff

 

   4d

Reassess operational policy with the aim of enhancing the effectiveness of the program.

Continually

Grants Center Staff

 

   4e

Reexamine the scheduling of the sequence of steps and deadlines in the grants process with the purpose of enhancing application, training, and implementation procedures.

Continually

Grants Center Staff

 

5

Develop a dynamic grants management program based upon environmental indicators, sound science, and common sense to enable the Department to target monies to areas of greatest environmental need.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   5a

Incorporate the environmental futures outcomes into selection criteria, as appropriate, and to the maximum degree attainable.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

   5b

Expand project oversight to make use of particular Departmental staff, most suitable to the individual undertaking.

Feb- Dec 2002

Grants Center Staff

 

 

Measurements

Grant projects sucessfully completed,Grant Projects completed on time,Grant projects addressing EP2 priorities 

Support Needed:

Participation of other programs in Grants Improvement Workgroup and resulting initatives

Responsible Person:

Grants Center Director