McAllister & Quinn works with clients to build organization-wide capacity for grants success.
Spanning the entire pre-award grants lifecycle, we help harness ideas and innovation and raise our clients’ potential to submit for and receive more external funding. We design and deliver in-person and virtual workshops, individual and cohort coaching, webinars, and other types of training tailored to clients’ most salient needs.
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Capacity Building and Training
Organizations must keep pace with ever-changing standards, best-practices, and policies around seeking and managing grants. We work to ensure that our clients build and grow an effective grant infrastructure or enhance grant systems already in place. We train grants professionals and leaders in identifying organizational and stakeholder needs, setting strategic directions, and designing and implementing strategies to best meet clients’ long-term goals.
Grants Writing
As competition for Federal and foundation awards increase, many are finding that they need to improve their grant writing know-how. Tailored grant writing training shows our clients how to turn a very good idea into a very competitive grant proposal. We help proposers make a compelling case, craft the narrative, and align with sponsors’ expectations and requirements.
Capacity Building and Training for NonProfits
As it’s a unique time in Washington, we’re here to help nonprofits navigate the current funding environment, prioritize resources, and prepare for state, foundation, and future federal funding opportunities.
Our tailored capacity building services and grantsmanship training programs are designed to meet your organization’s specific needs and experience level.
Navigating the world of federal, state, and foundation grants can be overwhelming and confusing, especially for organizations that are just starting out or have limited internal resources. McAllister & Quinn’s training programs are designed to bridge that gap, equipping participants with the tools and knowledge they need to become grants-ready.
Highlights & Accomplishments
We worked with 20 faculty and staff at a higher education institution to develop private foundation LOIs and proposals. This resulted in the client's submission of approximately $750K in new projects to private foundations.
Using our proven coaching model, faculty from a private university in California received over $1M in funded proposals from the NSF CAREER competition.
Participants in the University of Illinois’ annual new faculty training cohort have secured more than $20M for grant projects they worked on with McAllister & Quinn. Most recently, two investigators won a $7.2M award from the Department of Agriculture.
Case Studies
Key Takeaways from the TRIO SSS Competition and How to Stay Ahead in the Funding Landscape
Federal Support for TRIO Continues: Strategies for Grant Success for Colleges and Universities Federal TRIO programs provide crucial support to...
Crafting a Compelling NIH Specific Aims
The NIH Specific Aims page can be one of the most difficult for a principal investigator to write, but it...
SWOT Analysis for Improved Grant Management
We provided SWOT analysis services to a university in Virginia to help enhance its ability to pursue and receive funded...