Grant strategy, writing, and administration for nonprofits and public agencies
Aventis West Advisory helps nonprofits and public agencies win government, foundation, and corporate grants and manage them after the award. The same team writes the proposal and handles the reporting, so the budget you submit is one your finance office can report against.
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Services
We write proposals, and we also handle what comes after: reports, monitoring visits, audit questions, and renewals.
A list of funders you can realistically win, based on fit and your capacity.
Government, foundation, and corporate applications with budgets that support the narrative.
The records and controls a funder expects you to keep.
Program and financial reports, written with the next renewal in mind.
Preparation before a review, and remediation when a finding has already been issued.
Every funder type
Federal, state, county, and foundation funders each use different applications and different reports. Most organizations have several at once. We work with all four.
SF-424 packages, budget narratives, and the SAM.gov and UEI prerequisites. After the award: drawdowns, cost allowability, time-and-effort, subrecipient monitoring, indirect cost rate proposals, and Single Audit readiness under 2 CFR 200.
State agency grants and contracts, pass-through federal funds, invoicing and encumbrance cycles, performance and outcome reporting, and the amendments that keep a multi-year contract current.
County and city RFP responses, local tax measure and opioid settlement funding, and the working relationship with county staff that often decides renewals. We have handled county contracts from both the application and the reporting side.
Letters of inquiry and full proposals to community, family, and national foundations, corporate giving and sponsorship requests, funder stewardship between cycles, and renewals backed by reports sent on time.
How it works
You can start at any stage. Most organizations call us about a proposal. Often the bigger need turns out to be managing the awards they already have.
Before the funding notice
Pick target funders, confirm eligibility and registrations, and have standard text and budget numbers ready before the notice comes out.
Solicitation to submission
Write, build the budget, collect partner letters, and check the draft against the scoring criteria before you submit.
Period of performance
Keep the reporting calendar, document costs, oversee partners, and handle budget changes.
Final report through audit
Close out the award, prepare for monitoring or audit, and use the results in the next application.
Who this is for
You have received your first government awards, and the reporting is very different from the foundation grants you are used to.
You have a development team, but no one on it has been through a funder monitoring visit or an audit of grant funds.
Cities, counties, special districts, school districts, and tribal governments that need grant capacity without adding a position, or that are administering a first large state or federal award.
Grant rules depend more on the funder than the field, so we work across sectors, including:
If your field isn’t listed, ask us.
How we work
About the practice
Aventis West Advisory is a grant strategy, writing, and administration practice based in the San Francisco Bay Area, serving nonprofits and public agencies nationwide.
We work across every funder type: federal awards, state grants and contracts, county and city funding, and private foundation and corporate giving.
Our background is in grant management and operations, including international development work.
We are a small practice. A senior consultant leads each engagement from start to close-out. When a project needs budget review, evaluation design, or reporting systems, we bring in a specialist and tell you who it is.
Engagements
Fixed fee · defined deliverable
A single application, a policies and procedures manual, an audit remediation plan. Scope, timeline, and fee agreed before work starts.
Rolling calendar · set volume
An agreed number of submissions and reports each month, plus strategy time. For organizations with a steady pipeline and no internal grants staff.
Not sure which one fits? A free 30-minute call is usually enough to tell.
Book a call or email hello@aventiswest.comFAQ
Yes, and it’s a common way to start. First we list every active award, deadline, and open risk, ranked by urgency. Then we make a plan to get caught up.
All of them: federal, state, county and city, foundation, and corporate. We write the narrative, the budget and justification, and the required forms, and we manage the award after it is made. Most applications are scoped as fixed-fee projects.
Yes. We work with cities, counties, special districts, school districts, and tribal governments on applications, council and board approval timelines, match planning, and post-award reporting.
Probably. The rules that decide whether you win and keep a grant come from the funder, not your field. We work across health, human services, housing, education, public safety, the environment, the arts, international development, and more.
A senior consultant leads every engagement and is your main contact throughout. When a project needs a specialist, such as a budget reviewer, an evaluator, or a systems builder, we bring one in and tell you who they are. Your work is not handed to someone you have not met.
About thirty minutes, at no charge. Bring your funder list and your next three deadlines. That’s usually enough to tell whether we’re a fit and to give you a rough cost.
Contact
Intro calls are free and take about thirty minutes. Bring your funder list, your next three deadlines, and what prompted the call.