Grant Management

Lytmos helps implement solutions that strike a productive balance between allowing grantees freedom to concentrate on executing successful projects and ensuring sound fiscal and programmatic oversight. While always mindful of unique program priorities, we base our general approach on setting high expectations, maintaining an environment to help grantees succeed, and following prescribed procedures when success is unlikely. We can help with:

Grant Initiation

• Drafting award terms and conditions documents
• Finalizing budgets and schedules of deliverables
• Obtaining evidence of appropriate approvals, such as those required for research using animal subjects or recombinant DNA
• Preparing and delivering new awardee orientation

Administrative oversight

• Reconciling project spending against budgets and reported progress
• Implementing forms, tools, and business processes for efficiently collecting and approving required deliverables and grantee-initiated project changes
• Communicating the status of grants at the individual and portfolio levels

Programmatic oversight

• Drawing on project milestones and carefully chosen performance metrics to help measure and influence grantees' progress
• Arranging peer reviews of progress reports
• Planning and conducting site visits to provide high-quality feedback as additional support to project leaders
• Using effective escalation processes to help marginal projects improve and cut losses on non-performers

Grant conclusion

• Collecting outstanding deliverables
• Assessing the impact of the program's investment in the project
• Acknowledging the work of the project team
• Determining future follow-up plans
• Archiving data for later retrieval and program evaluation