I help startups, small businesses, large companies, and non-profits win and compliantly manage federal and foundation grants. To date, I have helped clients secure over $4 million in grant funding for a range of projects and activities including R&D projects, Demonstration and Commercialization activities, and not-for-profit General Operating support. I have extensive experience with the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and Funding Opportunities for every major Federal Agency, including:
- National Science Foundation (NSF)
- National Institutes of Health (NIH)
- Department Of Energy (DOE)
- Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E)
- NASA
- Department Of Defense (DOD)
- US Department of Agriculture (USDA)
My services span the full spectrum of the grant funding life-cycle:
- Funding Opportunity Searches
- Proposal Development, including Technical Writing and Editing, and compilation of Indirect Rate Proposals and Proposal Budgets
- Registration and Submission Troubleshooting
- Pre-Award Negotiation, including assistance with Responses to Reviewer Information Requests
- Post-Award Administration, including Accounting and Award Compliance
- Award Close-Out
“I’d highly recommend working with Bob. We had never worked on grants before, so generating and submitting the documents to the necessary agencies was quite daunting. Bob demystified the entire process for us and helped us put together a stellar proposal. With Bob’s guidance, we were ultimately awarded a sizable Phase I SBIR grant.”
– Aaron Rowley, CEO and Founder of Electroloom“NIH was a complete rabbit hole, there is no way we could of navigated the proposal process
without Bob.”
– Keith Kirkland, CEO and Co-Founder of WearWorks“Bob helped my company write and submit SBIR grant proposals to the USDA and the NSF. His expertise in the area made the process easy and efficient, giving me the peace of mind that everything was submitted correctly and on-time. Meanwhile, his writing and self-guided research abilities helped us craft much stronger proposals than we could have done on our own, while using fewer internal resources. I would gladly work with Bob again for any future grant opportunity.”
– Rory Aronson, CEO and Founder of FarmBot“I was incredibly impressed by Bob, he rapidly familiarized himself with the many details of our submission and made quick turn-around times for edits and adjustments to the budget and grant.”
– Abigail Edgecliffe-Johnson, CEO and Founder of RaceYa“Bob is the closest thing I know to a Grants Guru.”
– Nick Plante, Program manager for the URBAN-X Accelerator, SOSV“Bob is thorough, and his comments and suggestions were clear which gave us confidence in our submission. He was also fair – he spent some of his own time becoming an expert in the area of our application, which led to a more detailed review.”
– Danny Gardner, CEO and Co-Founder of MeshPlusPlus