Funding strategy & research
Connect organizational priorities to funding research, a pursuit roadmap, and a practical basis for deciding which opportunities deserve further work.
Grants & Incentives
Grant strategy and support.
Capacity for what follows.
Grant and incentive opportunities need a disciplined pursuit strategy—and a plan for what comes after an award. CORE connects funding research, application development, contracting support, and grants operations around a defined organizational priority.
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A funding opportunity is only part of the picture.
Your organization may need funding for a specific initiative, support pursuing an identified opportunity, or capacity to manage a growing award portfolio. Those are different starting points. The right scope depends on the project, available information, external requirements, and the work your team can support.
CORE reviews the priority and existing materials before defining the engagement. Research can inform a funding roadmap. A selected opportunity can support a focused application scope. A funded portfolio can create a separate need for reporting workflows, contracting support, systems, or an outsourced grants function.
Available support
Choose the support your priority needs.
Application development
Scope requirements planning, narrative and budget development, review, client approval, and submission support around the actual opportunity.
Portfolio & department operations
Define the capacity, systems, reporting workflows, and coordination needed to support award administration or an outsourced grants department.
Define the work
Deliverables shaped around your scope.
- A funding roadmap and prioritized research findings.
- Application narratives, budgets, supporting materials, and submission coordination identified in the agreed scope.
- Portfolio processes, reporting workflows, information management, and grants department systems.
- Defined recurring application capacity or outsourced support, with explicit boundaries for additional work.
Application development, award administration, and mobilization are scoped distinctly. Volumes, complexity, responsibilities, and delivery periods are confirmed in the proposal.
Work in practice
See the connection to delivery.
Capacity beyond the award.
For a client managing more than $350M in active, simultaneous awards, CORE built out the grants department without increasing the client’s full-time employee count. The work connected grants expertise with department systems, workflows, and automation.
Past outcomes do not guarantee future awards.
Your questions, answered
Frequently asked questions
Do we need an identified grant opportunity?
No. Funding research can be a starting point. If you already have a selected opportunity, CORE can evaluate a focused application engagement around its requirements.
Does an application engagement include post-award support?
Only if the agreed scope includes it. Reporting, compliance, reimbursement, and portfolio management requirements can be scoped separately around the actual award.
Can CORE guarantee funding?
No. Award decisions remain with the funder. Research may also show that available opportunities do not support a worthwhile pursuit. Past outcomes do not guarantee future awards.
How are recurring applications scoped?
Your proposal defines the application allowance, standard and complex work, additional fees, delivery periods, and treatment of unused capacity. These terms are specific to your engagement.
Our engagement model
A focused need.
A connected growth agenda.
Start with one practice area, a defined project, or ongoing support. Growth-as-a-Service brings strategic direction, specialist capacity, and coordinated delivery together as your priorities evolve.
New work is added through explicit scope, resources, fees, and completion requirements—not through an assumed expansion of the original engagement.
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Working with CORE
Bring your next priority into focus.
Discuss the outcome you need, the work already underway, and where CORE could support the next step.
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A focused conversation. A clear next step.