Amplio Services specializes in providing comprehensive grant services, catering to both the pre-award and post-award phases, to ensure your organization fully capitalizes on grant opportunities.
Pre-Award Services
Amplio’s pre-award services will strengthen your organization’s ability to forecast, identify, plan, apply for, and win significant grant funding. Amplio implements policies and procedures required for profitable pre-award solutions. These feature:
- Conducting a thorough needs analysis of your existing pre-award procedures and policies. This includes evaluating current policies, developing new policies and procedures to increase your ability to apply for grant opportunities, and analyzing existing positions and job descriptions.
- Developing a Grant Decision-Making Matrix: This is an objective, score-able tool that helps you decide whether it’s strategic to pursue a grant opportunity.
- Developing a Pre-Award Manual.
- Developing a staffing plan for a grant Pre-Award Office.
- Developing policies and procedures for the selecting, routing, and approving of grant applications.
- Developing sub-award policies and procedures.
- Developing budgetary policies for hiring existing staff and faculty for grant programs.
- Creating and leading workshops that provide an overview of grant opportunities and why faculty and/or professional staff should be applying for them. Amplio professionals tailor grant workshops to meet the specific needs of our clients.
Post-Award Services
Amplio designs and implements post-award solutions to ensure your organization is maximizing the impact of every grant dollar. We accomplish this by:
- Conducting a thorough needs analysis of the post-awarding procedures and policies. This includes evaluating what policies are currently in place and what new policies and procedures need to be created to increase your ability to run grant programs effectively. This will also include an analysis of current positions and job descriptions.
- Developing a Post-Award Manual to increase capacity to run grant programs.
- Developing a staffing plan for a grant Post-Award Office.
- Recommending software programs for post-award management.
- Developing policies and procedures to handle new grant awards, including the identification of allowable and unallowable costs, compliance, reporting, and managing subawards.
- Once you have received a grant award, Amplio will help run your grant program successfully and create a specific project-based manual for your program.
Grant Team Trainings
Development of a comprehensive grant training and team-building program for identified staff that includes personality and interest assessments, projects, and educational activities to increase collaboration while promoting cooperation and internal alignment and partnerships while applying for new grant opportunities. This can also be leveraged for other departments throughout the organization.
State Funding
Amplio professionals possess several decades of experience winning state funding. We will identify grant funding opportunities specifically advertised by your state, design projects, and prepare award-worthy applications.
Foundation Grants
Amplio helps identify, evaluate, and design projects for funding from major state and national foundations.
Strategic Partnerships
Amplio will analyze your organization’s strategic plan to ensure alignment with the activities we are proposing. Further, if appropriate, Amplio will develop and/or refine your strategic plan.
NICRA
Establishing an indirect cost rate can be a big hassle that eats up a lot of valuable time because federal agency bureaucrats are notoriously unresponsive. Let Amplio suffer the brain damage for you. We are based in Washington, DC. We have longstanding relationships with the federal program officers you need to reach. Amplio will help secure a favorable NICRA promptly and expeditiously to maximize the money you have for grant operations.