Services
What we do
We don't sell packages. Every engagement is scoped around what you're actually trying to do, and most combine several strands of the work below.
That's not evasion — it's the honest description of advisory work at this scale. A funder launching its first call needs something different from one migrating fifteen years of grant records, even when both engagements draw on the same expertise.
Strategy and programme design
Deciding what to fund, and building the structure to fund it well.
Launching new foundations and new programmes
Landscape analysis, strategy and planning
Theory of change; research, evaluation and learning
Building coalitions and funder partnerships
Funding calls and RFPs
Sourcing, reviewing and selecting the right proposals — with methods matched to your goals rather than defaulted to convention.
Call design and proposal form development
Applicant outreach and society partnerships
Review structures: staged selection, double-blind, partial lottery, champion nomination
Reviewer recruitment, rubrics and training
Selection tooling and decision support
Grants operations and systems
The machinery between a decision and an outcome.
Programme implementation and management
Grants management systems: selection, configuration, migration
Contracts, payments, reporting and compliance
Open science practice and research output tracking
Support for high-potential grantees and sub-award programmes
Team capability
Building what stays behind after we leave.
Staff training and mentoring
Executive advising and coaching
Facilitation and convenings
Organisational culture