Vander Weele Group
Kathleen Budrean is the current Chief Operating Officer at Vander Weele Group, where she is responsible for operations of a niche consulting firm specializing in federal grant monitoring and regulatory compliance. Prior to this, she worked as a Program Manager at Safe Humane Chicago, where she played a key role in establishing a program providing second chances for canine victims of abuse and neglect. She also served in roles at The Bradford Group, Harrington College of Design, Draft Worldwide Inc, and Frankel & Co, focusing on human resources, organizational effectiveness, recruiting, and employee relations. Kathleen holds a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from the University of Illinois Chicago.
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Vander Weele Group
At the Vander Weele Group, we're passionate about making the world better by helping federal and state grant programs--and the agencies that manage them--excel. We're driven by a desire to make grants oversight and monitoring more meaningful, empowering organizations to better serve grantees and the public. The Vander Weele Group offers turn-key oversight solutions for federal and state grant programs. We specialize in monitoring large-scale programs nationwide, combining grants monitoring expertise with industry-specific program experience. The firm offers traditional fiscal and compliance reviews, programmatic monitoring, risk assessments, internal control reviews, data analytics to detect fraud, best practice recommendations, and technical assistance for grantees. The Vander Weele Group is a WOSB, WBENC, DBE, SDB, and WBE-certified business. IL: 117-001231 / 118-000306