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Increase the quality, volume, and success rates of your grant applications
With an increasing number of applicants competing for fewer grant dollars, every institution is looking for an edge in its grant strategy.
Our solutions provide targeted guidance for your programmatic and research grants work—uncovering new opportunities, supporting institutional funding initiatives, and bolstering faculty development. As a result, you’ll craft the most competitive submissions to secure more funding for your institution.
Clients have secured over $600 million in grant funding with Hanover's support since 2012

Insights to identify, craft, and submit the most competitive proposals
Capacity Development
Supports the development of institutional capacity to pursue and manage grant funding through training, strategic assessment, and benchmarking. Includes grantsmanship workshops, one-on-one guidance, and cohort-based support through Hanover’s Grant Academy.
Funding Research
Explores and evaluates grant opportunities aligned to programs, funding levels, and faculty research needs. Facilitates planning through research on historical and future funding trends, while monitoring which funders your peers are targeting.
Pre-Proposal Support
Streamlines the assessment and development of competitive project concepts, helping to navigate funder expectations and providing coaching on program officer outreach prior to proposal development.
Proposal Support
Bolsters client-led grant proposal projects through hands-on review and revision services, ensuring that the most competitive proposals are submitted.
Proposal Development
Provides primary writing and project management capabilities, ushering institutional teams from iterative drafts to polished, on-time submissions.

The University of Texas at Dallas Builds Grant Proposal Revision Support Through Its Hanover Partnership
Our Office of Research is in the process of putting out seed funding, and we partnered with Hanover to tap into their expertise on grants training and proposal support for a large NIH proposal. Our Hanover Grants consultant has been an integral part of our team—we are very grateful for all of their hard work and are highly satisfied with the proposal review and support they provided.
– Dr. Theodore Price, Professor; Area Head, Cognition and Neuroscience; Program Head, Cognition and Neuroscience, PhD

Why the University of Cincinnati Office of Research is Partnering with Hanover Research
“We are highly satisfied with our relationships with the Hanover Research team and the resources they provide. For an investment of around that of which a new Ford F-150 costs, our faculty have teamed to successfully write and submit 8-10 major proposals that altogether total around $8m! Had it not been for the strategy we devised & executed with Hanover, it is highly likely that the majority of these complex proposals would not have been submitted at all, much less reviewed and edited prior to their submission. We are all very satisfied with this outcome.”
– Jennifer Krivickas, Associate Vice President for Research: Strategic Initiatives & Signature Programs