Capacity Building
We help build sustainable institutional strength.
AASCU Consulting understands that long-term success depends on more than great ideas; it takes the right resources, systems, and partnerships to bring those ideas to life. Our capacity-building support helps you strengthen your institution’s ability to secure funding, develop resources, and sustain growth initiatives that align with your strategic priorities.
Contact us.We work alongside you to build the infrastructure, strategy, and confidence your teams need to thrive.
Grant Seeking Solutions
Navigating the complex world of federal and private funding can be daunting—and that’s where we come in.
Our Grant Seeking Solutions are designed as an extension of your team, offering tailored expertise, funding intelligence, and personalized support to help your faculty and institution thrive.
Meet our team.When you partner with us, you gain access to:
- Streamlined identification of viable funding opportunities through GrantSearch, AASCU’s proprietary higher education funding search engine
- Dedicated support during the grant-seeking process from our staff
- Examples of successfully funded applications to assist with proposal development
- Professional development opportunities to learn from program officers, successful awardees, and experienced peers
- Tailored, timely resources, including member-only publications
- Ongoing monitoring of legislation impacting higher education grant-seeking
- Advocacy for increased federal agency responsiveness to members
What makes Grant Seeking Solutions unique is how seamlessly it integrates with your institution’s goals. Every strategy we help you build is rooted in your mission, ensuring that each funding opportunity strengthens your long-term capacity for success.
GrantSearch login.Grant Seeking Services
We offer members timely, reliable, and functional grant-seeking tools, including GrantSearch, AASCU’s proprietary search engine. Faculty, administrators, staff, and students at member institutions can use GrantSearch and our customized search alerts to filter through hundreds of private and federal funding opportunities.
Use customizable filters to search through more than 1,500 federal and private higher education-focused funding opportunities.
Unlimited campus users: Research and sponsored programs staff can empower any student, staff, or faculty member with access to GrantSearch.
Unlimited faculty alerts: Set up personalized, weekly funding searches based on faculty research interests.
GrantSearch login.Members receive timely information about policies and best practices relevant to higher education grant programs through our newsletters. These services include:
GrantWeek: A weekly electronic news magazine that analyzes federal legislation and agency policies, and highlights new funding priorities and opportunities, member success stories, and best practices in research administration.
Deadlines: A monthly funding opportunity alert featuring upcoming competitions of federal and private application deadlines.
Request newsletter access.We help members strategically pursue funding opportunities and develop policies through a curated collection of up-to-date agency and sponsored programs information. Services include:
- Agency fact sheets: Summaries that describe the funding and management profile of all federal agencies, especially helpful for new and first-time applicants
- Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Request Sites: Comprehensive directory of federal agency FOIA policies
- Sample Policy Library: Campus policy statements on a wide range of topics—from intellectual property to research ethics—that disseminate best practices
- Federal agency suspended and terminated programs: A list that tracks the status of agency programs
We help members access vital resources supporting competitiveness in pursuit of grants and contracts by providing examples of successful grant proposals, assisting in finding funding opportunities, and connecting members to program officers.
Funded proposal library: Members gain access to a continuously updated collection of successfully funded proposals. Available through GrantSearch.
Funding search form: Members can receive assistance from staff to find additional state, regional, or local funding opportunities.
Funding search form.The funding landscape moves quickly, and we’ll help you stay ahead of it.
We provide data-driven insights, policy analysis, and strategic guidance so your institution can identify opportunities early and pursue them confidently. By connecting external funding priorities with your academic mission, we help ensure your efforts are proactive, not reactive, and that you’re always positioned for what’s next.
Whether your sponsored programs office is new or well-established, we can help you do more with what you have.
Our team extends your staff capacity through flexible, cost-effective solutions that streamline operations and strengthen proposal competitiveness. We’ll help you identify bottlenecks, design efficient processes, and build sustainable growth—all without the overhead of additional hires.
We know that faculty drive innovation at institutions—we’re here to help them shine.
We offer professional development that builds confidence and skill in grant-seeking, from early-career researchers to experienced faculty leaders. Our approach improves proposal quality, strengthens funding success rates, and connects faculty efforts to the broader strategic goals of your institution.
Testimonials
“[Grant Seeking Solutions] has proven to be a vital partner in assisting our faculty and staff identify active funding opportunities. The impressive search tool accepts various combinations of criteria, allowing for searches ranging from broad to very specific based on the user’s input. Equally impressive is the Faculty Alerts feature, which provides recurring monthly reports on funding opportunities based on specific interests. Overall, [GSS] has been a great addition to our university.”
“[Grant Seeking Solutions] has been our go to resource for fast, reliable funding insights for over 25 years. GrantSearch, Faculty Alerts, and timely newsletters keep our campus ahead of opportunities and policy updates. [Grant Seeking Solutions’] personalized service is also an unbeatable asset of membership.”
“As someone fairly green in the grant world, [Grant Seeking Solutions’] Proposal Library has been instrumental in helping me learn how to write competitive, successful proposals. The [Grant Seeking Solutions] team is exceptionally helpful, responsive, communicative, and always ready to provide guidance and support. The library has also been a valuable resource for sharing proposal examples with faculty.”
“Partnering with [Grant Seeking Solutions] provides Southeastern Louisiana University with a competitive edge through their GrantSearch database and expert insights into federal trends. This membership is a vital asset to us, empowering our researchers to compete on the federal level while complementing our administrative efficiency. We consider [Grant Seeking Solutions] an extension of our office, providing tailored funding resources that enable our team to serve faculty more accurately.”
“My team and I are grateful for [Grant Seeking Solutions] and the services that they provide. They make it easy for our campus stakeholders to search for funding opportunities. Additionally, our faculty appreciate the additional services provided, such as webinars on setting up their profiles and grant seeking, along with sharing examples of funded proposals. The staff are very resourceful, responsive, and friendly. You all help to make our lives better.”
“Elizabeth City State University (ECSU) has been a member of [Grant Seeking Solutions] for almost 20 years. The resources they provide to our faculty has been invaluable. We depend upon their materials and timely information on agency funding priorities. The staff are always available to address last minute requests and offer guidance. They are a great group of professionals to work with!”
“For more than 20 years, before I retired from a medium-size private college, [Grant Seeking Solutions] was my primary resource for grant opportunities, proven pre-award practices, experienced and generous colleagues from across the US, and meetings with Program Officers to learn about both emerging and evolving federal opportunities. [Grant Seeking Solutions] has the most knowledgeable and dedicated staff, always there for whatever you might need.”
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