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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.

Insights
July 22, 2026
Tech Transfer Financial Reconciliation and Compliance at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital - Oakland
Project at-a-Glance Supporting Intellectual Property Operations Following a Hospital Merger Following the merger of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital with Children’s Hospital Oakland, Attain Partners provided staff augmentation for the cleanup of intellectual property-related accounts receivable, inventor payment processing, and government compliance requirements to support accurate financial reporting and timely distributions....
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July 17, 2026
Why Research Administration Teams Are Still Managing Million-Dollar Sponsored Research Portfolios in Spreadsheets
Read part one in this series to learn why traditional ERP reports often fall short when research administrators need forward-looking visibility into sponsored project risk, and how better forecasting supports more proactive portfolio management. In a previous Attain Partners blog on ERP forecasting in research administration, we discussed why traditional ERP reports often fall short […]
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July 9, 2026
Advancing Grant Closeout and Financial Reconciliation at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital - Oakland
Project at-a-Glance Supporting Sponsored Research Operations Following a Hospital Merger Following the merger of UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital with Children’s Hospital Oakland, UCSF engaged Attain Partners to support grant closeout activities and stabilize sponsored research operations. The engagement included closing more than 700 grant accounts, providing staff augmentation during a vacancy in sponsored project management,...
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July 8, 2026
Uniform Guidance FAQ: Subscription and Publication Costs
On June 30, 2026, Attain Partners hosted Publication and Periodical Costs: Proposed Uniform Guidance Revisions and Institutional Implications, a live discussion examining the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s proposed revisions to Uniform Guidance §§200.454 and 200.461 and their potential implications for research institutions. During the session, attendees submitted questions about the proposed changes and...
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June 18, 2026
Proper Award Set-Up to Reduce Compliance and Financial Risk
Award set-up is the foundation of effective post-award management. From invoicing and reporting to closeout, a properly established award can influence the success of the entire lifecycle. When issues arise at set-up, they often compound over time, leading to administrative burden, compliance risk, and potential financial loss. Below are two examples illustrating how award set-up […]
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June 10, 2026
How CHRIS 180 Built a Scalable Grants Operating Model Through a Phased Investment
From Single Audit Collaboration to Embedded Post-Award Expertise and a Modernized Grants Operating Model As nonprofit organizations grow their federal and state grant portfolios, the grants function naturally evolves in complexity. Reporting cycles compress, sponsor requirements diversify, and the volume of post-award activity expands. Leading nonprofits anticipate this trajectory and invest in specialized expertise and ...
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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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