CCP approaches grant consulting as a highly technical, creative, strategic, and nuanced process. CCP professionals guide clients through the complex environment of federal, state, and local grant opportunities while simultaneously advising on internal structures, strategies, and overall capacity required to succeed. Our services extend beyond simply assisting with writing a successful application. We start working well in advance of a formal application and advise our clients on necessary organizational management structures, finances, programmatic and operational reforms, and administrative processes they need to establish to engage successfully with grant funding.

Competitive and discretionary grants increasingly provide organizations with profound opportunities to accomplish their long-term strategic visions and high-level organizational goals. Especially at the federal and state level, these sources of funding can help facilitate significant improvements to our clients' operational abilities and objectives.

Many organizations are forced to rely on staff with other essential responsibilities to manage the grant management process. By engaging with CCP, we help alleviate these challenges by offering diverse resources and services to help reduce workload and stress. We support clients' leadership and staff align their goals, objectives, and strategic vision with grant opportunities.

Once awarded, CCP will continue its active engagement to advise clients on successfully and efficiently delivering the expected results for grant-funded projects that align with extensive and rigid federal, state, and local regulations and rules.

Programs with which we have worked extensively include:

• Federal funding opportunities from various Departments and Agencies
• Pennsylvania's Redevelopment Assistance Capital Program
• PA Department of Community and Economic Development grants to fund transportation, recreation, community development, economic development, and infrastructure projects.
• Local Community Development Block Grants.
• Foundation grants at the national, state, and local level.

CCP professionals have worked on numerous diverse strategic efforts and engagements for clients and their government affairs teams. CCP effectively engages with the House, the Senate, Committees of Authority, and multiple Executive Branch agencies. These engagements include resolving strategic and operational issues associated with, but not limited to:

• Policy reforms that impact post-secondary education institutions, municipal governments, human resource operations, and taxation ramifications for for-profit and nonprofit entities
• Appropriations decisions for research and development funding
• Defense Funding priorities and strategic investment in emerging high technology spaces
• Informational engagements to introduce client organizations to key governmental decision makers (legislative and agency representation)
• Assistance in drafting proposed language for legislation

CCP also advises clients on

• Presentation preparation for legislative hearings, public testimony, and agency meetings.
• Assistance with and advice on federal board appointments

CCP professionals have worked on numerous efforts and engagements in the Pennsylvania Legislature, Committees of Jurisdiction, and multiple state Departments and Agencies, including, but not limited to:

• Policies impacting post-secondary education institutions, municipal governments, human resource implications, and taxation ramifications for for-profit and nonprofit entities.
• State budget requests, including "line-items" and "embedded "line-items."
• Informational engagements to introduce client organizations to key governmental decision makers (legislative, the Governor's Office, and across state agencies).
• Assistance in drafting proposed language for legislation.
• Presentation preparation for legislative hearings, public testimony, and agency meetings.
• Assistance with state board appointments