ACF Receives 2006 Presidential Award for Management Excellence

The Administration for Children and Families (ACF) has won the 2006 Presidential Award for Management Excellence. ACF’s Center for Grants Management was honored along with five other recipients at an awards ceremony at the Corcoran Gallery of Art on November 14. This is the first year HHS has received such an honor.

Administered through the President’s Quality Award Program, the Presidential Award for Management Excellence is the highest award given to executive branch agencies for management excellence. ACF’s Grants Center for Excellence, a group of 12 federal employees and their contracting team, saved millions of dollars by consolidating over 50 disparate grants systems. They also expanded the system to serve seven agencies and more than 80 grant programs.

HHS Secretary Mike Leavitt presents the Presidential Award for Management Excellence. Pictured are (from left): Counselor to the Secretary for Human Services Policy Richard Campanelli, HHS Deputy Secretary Alex Azar, Assistant Secretary for Children and Families Wade F. Horn, Office of Public Health and Science’s Brad Hendrick, ACF’s David Jenkins, ACF’s Diana King, Secretary Leavitt, ACF’s Deborah Ferrenz, Director of the Office of Information Services Michael Curtis, HHS Chief Information Officer Charlie Havekost, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Administration Curt Coy and Deputy Chief of Staff Kerry Weems.

 

 

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