Industry Specific Compliance + Licensure

We are expert guides to the world of government bureaucracy. Our industry clients greatly value our combination of experience in government agencies, state legislatures, as local elected officials and as issue-based lobbyists. We provide expertise on how to approach new and ongoing compliance, licensure and other government reporting processes. Our Project Managers and Writers take responsibility for the full scope of complex compliance and licensure projects, developing content that positions our clients for success, coordinating supporting documentation with your legal and accounting experts, and communicating with your lobbyist. Recent projects include:

• Cannabis industry licensure - State of NJ

• Degree-granting institution of higher education licensure - State of NJ

• Go-to-market strategy development - Education technology sales to Local Education Agencies (LEAs)

• Go-to-market strategy development - Energy Efficiency sales to state and local government agencies

Grant Research, Program Development + Content Production

We help our clients identify best fit grant opportunities and provide assistance with every step of the grant application process: Pre-Award, Award and Post-Award. Each phase requires detailed reporting, where the grantee communicates to the granting agency that it understands its role and the grant deliverables, has built a team that is capable of completing those deliverables, and has expended all grant funds in accordance with the grant agreement. A skilled grants consultant is a useful asset during any phase of a particular grant project, but ideally will be on board as early as possible to help new grantees avoid pitfalls that can cause unnecessary complications later in the grant cycle. Aubrey Group Project Managers can act as advisors on the sidelines or take full charge of a grant writing project, producing all of the required content and handling the submission process.

The “Grant Program” encompasses all of the deliverables that you will achieve with grant funding, whether your goal is to establish and fund an after-school athletics program or plan a major revitalization effort for your community’s downtown area. Aubrey Group Consultants work closely with our clients to understand their vision. We then advise on how to best align that vision with the priorities of funding organizations. We develop a Grant Program that forms the basis of the grant application and the eventual grant deliverables. This may include preparing economic feasibility studies, operational management plans, drafting program management job descriptions and performing strategy development for recruiting, marketing / program outreach, data collection, and retention and performance measurement.

Community Strategic Planning

Once leadership has established a vision, strategic planning is a crucial second step to charting the course to ensure that the vision becomes reality. Our consultants work with clients and their key constituents to refine and document a shared vision and map out a course of action to achieve it. This planning process is supportive of many of our clients’ big-picture goals, such as neighborhood revitalization and redevelopment, arts district planning, and business improvement district planning. We measure success in our strategic planning projects not only by the quality of the documents and presentations prepared, but by the successful implementation of the real world goals that they are meant to achieve. Often, strategic plans form a part of larger grant program development and act as a catalyst for attracting crucial financial resources.