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Grant Administration provides your organization with sound fiscal responsibility. It helps you better demonstrate standards for your grantees to ensure that services are being delivered to the community. Simmonds Ballentine, LLC will develop your Grant Administration Process, ensuring greater transparency and compliance.

The Challenge

Many grant making organizations want to have a powerful impact by providing grantees with necessary resources. However, without developing a sound grant administration process noble ambitions are thwarted. To prevent mismanagement of funds, government scrutiny, and subsequent loss of donors, it is extremely important to have a thoroughly planned administration process.

The Solution

Simmonds Ballentine, LLC’s Grant Administration Services will enable you to preserve and build your funding sources.

Grant Administration Evaluation: What is the current state of your grant adminstration process? We will gather the necessary information in order to establish a baseline and determine areas for improvement. Special attention will be given to how grantees are monitored, evaluated, and supported by your organization through capacity building activities.

Grant Administration Development: Once we evaluate the state of your grant administration process, we will revamp it for optimal performance. Simmonds Ballentine, LLC will provide you with a system to enhance both effectiveness and efficency. This will include your grant cycle as well as your system for record maintenance.

Grant Administration Implementation: You are now in the home stretch. In this stage, your organization will learn to manage the system we have designed. With proper training and periodic grant administration monitoring, you will be ready to delivery this new process to your grantees. Through a train the trainer session, your organization will the have the ability to provide effective training to grantees for proper grant compliance.

Why Simmonds Ballentine, LLC?

Established in 2005, the mission of Simmonds Ballentine, LLC is to empower the community by enhancing the effectiveness and efficiency of organizations and businesses providing services to and/or interfacing with that community. We provide Strategic Management, Capacity Building and Campaign Management services to our Clients. Simmonds Ballentine, LLC serves Clients from Africa and the Diaspora, as well as those communities with dense Black populations. We help our Clients to leverage current and emerging technologies to enhance the effectiveness of their services. We establish and maintain our top-tier global position by providing our Clients with innovative solutions and exceptional service that exceeds expectations. Our Firm is governed by a philosophy that promotes self-sufficiency within communities, as well as understanding and cooperation between that community and the larger society.

Simmonds Ballentine, LLC strengthens the economic and political stature of the community and serves as a bridge between communities for the mutual benefit of mankind. We recruit, develop and empower the best talent to become important contributors to this mission and thus broaden the reach of our services.