Grant Writing & Funding Procurement

Our full-time grants team specializes in the following areas:

• Tracking and Evaluation: Hundreds of alternative fuel programs exist in North America, each with dozens of program criteria that change on a regular basis. GNA’s grant team maintains consistent communication with federal, state, and local agency contacts to track these programs and notify our clients well in advance of their release. Specifically, through our “Grant Guru” team, seven staff members are each responsible for tracking funding opportunities in their respective portions of the country. There are upwards of 500 programs and contacts that GNA stays in touch with regularly, allowing us to work with our clients to evaluate the applicability of such programs to their individual needs with plenty of time to spare to put together a competitive application.
• Grant Writing and Application: GNA has secured more than $255 million in funding on behalf of our clients and projects, with a success rate above 90% for the nearly 300 applications we have written. We help our clients assemble projects and partners that will lead to the most competitive application, based on analysis of the program scoring criteria. We leverage insight gained from market analysis, technical projects, policy development, and regulatory compliance projects to develop compelling applications. GNA-written grant applications often are the top ranked projects in a given program.
• Reporting Compliance: GNA oversees the reporting for grant-related contracts in the tens of millions of dollars and understands the detailed level of reporting and thoughtful follow-through required to track the impacts, successes, and potential challenges of every project.
• Program Development: GNA has played an instrumental role in drafting, developing, and implementing funding programs in order to achieve policy goals and objectives, including the Carl Moyer Memorial Air Quality Standards Program, Mobile Source Air Pollution Reduction Review Committee Program, California’s $1.0 billion Proposition 1B, the Texas Clean Transportation Triangle (SB 385), and multiple fleet modernization programs.
• Program Administration: GNA has helped to manage several of the nation’s largest and leading grant programs, including the Gateway Cities Program, the South Coast Air Quality Management District’s Proposition 1B grant program, the San Pedro Bay Ports Clean Truck Program, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey’s Truck Replacement Program, and the City of New York’s Hunts Point Clean Truck Program. GNA has played various roles in these projects, including assisting with the establishment of program parameters, development of program forms and materials, development and execution of the customer interface (both program and infrastructure), answering applicant questions, assisting with the development of applications, review of applications, and participation in the approval of projects for funding. In conjunction with these tasks, GNA is often responsible for stakeholder coordination, program education and outreach, program marketing, and providing program reports to the agency.