The early work of the Federal Demonstration Partnership focused on standard rules for grants management. This standards-based strategy still holds great promise for improving the enterprise. By collaboratively selecting and deploying standards, the many stakeholders in the enterprise stand to benefit both individually and collectively. Standard vocabulary, work-process models, data definitions and formats, records requirements, and basic technical tools are just a few of the areas where there is both great need for standards and great potential benefits from adopting them.