Grants Management

A strong grants management plan is essential to securing and managing the funding needed to enhance and further the research mission. We help clients navigate the grants process and maintain compliance by empowering you with everything you need to optimize your management processes, maximize your grants funding, minimize risk, and eliminate uncertainties along the way.

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Manage Your Grants.
Increase Your Impact.

Managing your grants doesn’t have to be complicated. Our experts have the firsthand public sector experience needed to support you throughout the entire management lifecycle. We have deep expertise in allowable costs, proposal submissions, financial reporting and closeouts, and research compliance, including export control. Regardless of your needs, we can help you take control of your grants, stay organized, and move your research mission forward.

What We Do

We merge today’s grants management best practices with technology and our own proven framework to help organizations stay up to date on continuously evolving grants processes—all while improving efficiencies and maintaining compliance with current regulations. Find out how we can enhance your grants management program.

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Deliver guidance on allowable costs

Analyze portfolios to identify areas of opportunity

Analyze and introduce technology tools to enhance customer service

Assist with proposal submissions for sponsored projects

Adjust your business strategies to work in a virtual environment

Help you maintain compliance based on today’s evolving standards

How You Benefit

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Stay compliant
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Reduce costs
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Generate data-driven reporting
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Organize grants in a single, centralized system
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Access a team with decades of grants management expertise
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Align your grant activities with your strategic goals

Trusted Cayuse
Implementation Partner

Cayuse empowers globally connected research. Its integrated, cloud-based research platform powers a suite of applications that maximizes researcher success, improves collaboration, and streamlines work across the entire research lifecycle, including the commercialization of research outcomes.

Attain Partners’ expertise—including pre-award and post-award grants management, regulatory compliance, classified research administration, and more—combined with Cayuse’s leading-edge software enables us to efficiently improve both business processes’ technology and research administration.

Learn more about our work with Cayuse here.

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Change the way you manage your grants

We can help you manage the entire lifecycle of your grants, securing the funding you need while maintaining compliance. Contact our team to learn more about our grants management services.

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