Strategic Partnerships provides comprehensive services to higher education institutions to attract international, federal, state, and foundation funding for research and demonstration projects.

Strategic Partnerships' services include:

• Conducting an assessment of the capabilities, experience, capacities and interests of the higher education institution to both expand on existing and gain entrée to new sources of research and demonstration grant funding.
• Establishing a comprehensive tracking, screening and communication system to alert faculty in the social and natural sciences to international, federal, state, and foundation funding opportunities.
• Establishing a system to target international funding opportunities including The World Bank Group, the United Nations Development Programme, the U.S. Agency for International Development, the Regional Banks and more.
• Gaining visibility, appreciation and engagement for a client's research capabilities with targeted governmental agencies and international donor agencies.
• Identifying opportunities to pursue unsolicited research and demonstration grants in addition to competitive solicitations.
• Assisting in the design and execution of strategies to create new research centers.
• Providing technical assistance in the development, presentation and negotiation of proposals.

Strategic Partnerships' experienced staff and its well-connected Board of Directors have extensive experience in working directly with and for federal agencies, international donor agencies and directly in targeted research and demonstration arenas. With this experience and leadership, Strategic Partnerships offers services with a value proposition that typically results in a 5:1 return for our clients in year one rising to a 10:1 (or greater) in year two.

Services to the K-12 Educational System

Strategic Partnerships has extensive experience with both large and smaller school districts for almost 28 years through its management of one of our nation's largest and most successful programs for helping at-risk young people succeed in school and on the job, Jobs for America's Graduates. In addition, Strategic Partnerships has helped corporate, non-profit, and higher education clients work with K-12 educational systems on a variety of research and demonstration projects.

One key element of Strategic Partnerships services has been built around the identification and securing of resources from both the public and private sectors to help support critical educational objectives.

Strategic Partnerships is positioned to assist school systems in assessing the full range of needs and capacities to fully utilize federal, state, and/or private-sector funding on behalf of the school district. After assessment of needs, Strategic Partnerships can assist in the design and execution of strategies to secure desired additional resources to support critical educational objectives, and, as may be needed, support the preparation of proposals as well as the follow-up and support for their submission and negotiation.

As may be needed, Strategic Partnerships can further assist in developing the capacities and capabilities of the school district staff to systematically identify, assess, and carry out the pursuit and securing of available federal and state funding for which the school district is eligible and which offer opportunities for achieving the educational objectives of the school district.