Growth Begins Here
Our Grant Writing Services, Your Innovation
About Us
Catalytic Strategies is a distinguished consultancy firm based out of Kansas City, Missouri with a branch in St. Louis, Missouri. The firm offers a full suite of services tailored to strategic growth and development efforts, including auditing grant or contract readiness, researching funders, writing applications, facilitating grant teams, performing post-award funding management, and development of breakthrough growth strategy and business models for new products or service innovation.
Catalytic Strategies’ principals have helped clients secure over $150 million in new funding. Clients of Catalytic Strategies receive tailored services based on the internal capacity of their organization to ensure maximum success. Catalytic Strategies leverages over 50 years of professional experience working with government, higher education, healthcare, and social service sectors to manage complex, collaborative projects and design programs that drive system-level changes.
Our Services
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Funding Identification
We access databases and pour over lists of thousands of possible grants. Then, we develop a list of strong matches with grantmakers and your organization. This report can stand alone for your own in-house use, or serve as a jumping off point for us to assist with grant writing.
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Proposal Writing
In a close partnership with your team, we lead the writing process and submission of highly technical and involved appplications. To ensure your application is strong, we verify your entire application package meets the rigorous standards of the funding agency. We are also able to conduct a high level review of a grant application, or take a deeper dive and do more comprehensive editing and technical assistance review.
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Funding Compliance
Organizations must adhere to a myriad of grant compliance requirements such as Uniform Administrative Requirements including financial management, internal controls, procurement, and cost principle requirements. Grant administration is key to your success in receiving future grant awards. Through grant management services, Catalytic Strategies can help your organization remain compliant with grant requirements.
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Specialty Services
Catalytic Strategies can also assist you in the following areas:
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Needs assessments
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Project evaluation
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Business plans
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Capital proposals
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Managed care contracting
Secure funding. Strengthen your mission. Deepen your impact.
Who We Are
Ellen King / President
Ellen King, President of Catalytic Strategies, serves as an active grant reviewer for numerous federal agencies such as the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Administration for Children and Families, Administration for Native Americans, and Health Resources and Services Administration.
Before launching her consulting career, Ellen spent three decades working for non-profit organizations providing direct “on the ground” service, senior level staff leadership, board governance, resource development and growth management, and organizational health assessment and evaluation on behalf of two major national funding entities. In recent years, Ellen’s efforts have generated sustained federal funding and exponentially increased donor cultivation systems for numerous organizations. Ellen earned a Master of Science in Political Science from Central Michigan University, Bachelor of Science in Psychology / Sociology from Truman State University, and Bachelor of Science in Law from LaSalle Extension University.
Karah Waddle / Vice President
Karah Waddle, Vice President of Catalytic Strategies, has spent her professional career working for non-profit organizations performing a dual operational and strategy/development role. In her most recent positions, Karah has successfully crafted managed care and grant management systems for utmost compliance and efficiency; developed and implemented numerous large-scale projects including capital initiatives, mergers and acquisitions, organic business growth, new business / service line initiatives; driven successful attainment of new contract and grant funding; and oversaw a multi-state health care service delivery platform achieving maximum financial and quality performance.
Karah earned a Master of Business Administration from William Woods University in Fulton and Bachelor of Science from Truman State University in Kirksville.
Our Awards
