SCG is a full-service grant administration firm focused on helping cities, counties, non-profits and rural communities realize their potential through strategic planning, project identification, grant development, project management and compliance coordination.

SCG offers resource development, grant writing and grant administration services for cities, counties, school districts, rural communities, and non-profits agencies. Our staff has been helping organizations successfully raise funds from the state and federal governments, private foundations and corporations for nearly 20 years. Through years of experience, our grant writers have a successful track record and have refined their skills of researching, identifying and obtaining funds for a variety of programs/projects and services. Simply put, our grant writers know how to craft a grant application into a seriously competitive document.

Whether it is affordable housing public infrastructure, public safety, community services, social services, health and human services, education, parks and recreation or a myriad of other public policy areas, the grant writers at SCG are diligent and current on resources available.

Our expert grant writers are successful at taking a concept, or a simple thought, from a client and turn it into a funded project by clearly identifying the correct grant that meets the need.
SCG grant writers work directly with executives, commissions, boards and staff to conduct a needs assessment process to identify areas of opportunity and fundraising strengths. This process better equips us to match client needs with relevant funding sources.

Our professional staff offers:

• Comprehensive needs assessment matching client needs with relevant federal, state, community and private grants
• Outreach and engagement with executives, staff and the community to design, implement ad evaluate a grant program/project
• Grant development, including coordination of program, budget and evaluation
• Continued coordination and communication to ensure adherence to the funding plan
• Grant application submission and follow-up after the client reviews and approves
• Organizational capacity assessment to gauge the agency’s grant readiness-assessment of agency strengths and areas of improvement as they relate to programs/services/fiscal

After a grant has been awarded there are often compliance thresholds that must be met. SCG staff has extensive experience in grants administration, evaluation and reporting post-award. Our staff will assist your team to meet all post award requirements.

Our professional staff offers:

• Fiscal management; preparation of status reports, procurement updates and close-out documents; project contracted objectives, rules and regulatory compliance; project oversight; record keeping; release of funds process
• Development of process and outcome evaluation systems
• Continuity of training and technical assistance that includes monitoring and regular progress reports
• Review of revenue and expenditures and project status, to ensure proper implementation of funds
• Assist in the development of, and revision to, marketing materials
• Draft standard operating procedures
• Monitoring of the post award, including the review of monthly invoices and back-up documentation; reviewing programmatic reports; reviewing annual audit reports and management letters, and mini audit of expenses