SMART training is a technical assistance initiative sponsored by the Employment and Training Administration (ETA) of US Department of Labor and led by the Office of Grants Management (OGM) to assist its grant recipients and subrecipients in improving its program/project operations through effective grants management.
SMART 4.0 materials, including materials in both English and Spanish, can be found on Workforce GPS under the Grant Application and Management page.
This initiative began in 2015 and trained 2,552 individuals (non-Federal staff) in 18 locations through 2016. In 2019, 462 individuals attended two ‘in person’ conferences and another 5,163 attended 16 virtual E-SMART learning sessions. ETA staff conducted a webinar hosted by WorkforceGPS called ‘SMART Approach to the Uniform Guidance Revisions’ on February 23, 2021, where 1,196 persons attended the session. In February 2023, a virtual SMART 4.0 conference was conducted and released on WorkforceGPS, with attendance numbers totaling 12,453 for each of the 9 virtual webinars and 1,876 unique users in all. Since 2015 through February 2023, ETA has trained nearly 21,826 individuals.
The training focused on:
Strategies for sound grant management that is built around four cornerstones:
Monitoring,
Accountability,
Risk mitigation, and
Transparency.
These four themes are also weaved throughout the OMB Uniform Administrative Requirements, Cost Principles, and Audit Requirements for Federal Awards also known as the Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR Part 200 and DOL’s adoption and approved exceptions of the Uniform Guidance at 2 CFR Part 2900.
If you have any comments or questions, please email us at compliance.policy@dol.gov.