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Competitive Grants Continue to be a Critical Funding Component

Carmen Group's client stewardship approach focuses strategic campaigns for winning, optimizing and managing federal grants. Recent Client successes include Napa Flood Control, Santa Clara Valley Water District, Saft America and the International Training Institute for the Sheet Metal and Air Conditioning Industry.

While most of the stimulus grants from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 have been awarded and over half of funds have been paid out, important residual activity and themes remain. Under “use it or lose it” provisions within the program’s unprecedented accountability, some funding is expected to be returned and available for new awards. More importantly, a model has been established for driving government vision across a range of areas including healthcare, education, energy and more. Grants continue to be a critical funding component for many projects, especially with pressured municipalities needing all the help they can get.

Major grant campaigns require an effective strategy and broad teamwork to compile extensive, complicated content and craft an effective, focused response. Carmen Group leads the content generation process and takes over final implementation to ensure that the proposal is properly framed, thoroughly responsive and effectively actionable.

Carmen Group has over two decades of substantive expertise in creating winning grant proposals. We have helped clients realize significant value through grants in areas including defense, education, energy, environment, healthcare, transportation, unions & coalitions and water.