The Blue Haven Grant Consultants Mindset: Your Aligned Partner
When searching for a grant writer, it’s important to understand their philosophy as well as their skills. Different writers bring distinct frameworks to the table, and you want to be able to assess if that framework aligns with your team and your project. In this post, we’ll explore more of the Blue Haven Grant Consultants mindset and what differentiates us from other grant writers in the SBIR/STTR grant writing industry. This post will provide you with a better understanding of what we mean when we say we are a full-service grant writing company focused on getting your project funded and on a path to commercial success.
Principal Investigator Perspective
We started BHGC based on our experience as Principal Investigators. We know what it is like to be in your shoes—working tirelessly to secure funding and driving a project from concept to completion. We've experienced the pressures of getting grants submitted on time and meeting funding milestones. That experience shapes our entire approach to grant writing.
Our Principal Investigator perspective and experience enables us to provide service beyond that of a mere grant writer. With decades of experience in both the science and business of medical innovation, we do more than repackage your project into grant language. We work with you as a member of your team to maximize the narrative and presentation of your ideas for the grant reviewers.
There is perhaps no better example of this than our Significance-Innovation Analysis™. During this process, we dive deep into your innovation by seeking a thorough understanding so we can convey your innovation in a concise and compelling way to NIH reviewers. More so, we will help guide your project toward funding and commercialization success. With experience as both as Principal Investigator and an NIH SBIR/STTR reviewer, we have a deep understanding for the content the reviewers are looking for in a fundable proposal. If we find a gap in any portion of your application, we don’t try to gloss over that in the application. Instead, we help you fill that gap in a meaningful way through data collection, design, or gathering supporting scientific literature. As needed, we act as a fractional CTO—an embedded partner and member of your medical innovation project team.
Administrative Backbone
Grant writing isn’t simply writing a well thought out scientific proposal. An entire administrative layer exists that requires management to properly prepare and submit your proposal in concordance with NIH rules and regulations. Research universities have entire departments dedicated to this administrative process to support Principal Investigators. Your project deserves administrative support as well—another level of the BHGC framework. As your grant partner, not just your grant writer, we act as your own personal grants administrator, ensuring that the behind-the-scenes logistics are handled seamlessly. There is no need for you to worry about submission, registration, compliance, budgeting, and other administrative tasks. Your team can focus on the science, and we’ll manage all that comes with applying for and being awarded grant.
Aligned Interests
Our complete alignment with our clients’ grant-writing needs is one of the most distinctive differences with other grant writing companies. Our No Risk “BHGC Payment Upon Award” ™ ensures we are completely aligned with our client’s interests. At BHGC, your success is directly tied to our success. Therefore, our business model and pricing structure require us to be aligned with your interests. Our No Risk “BHGC Payment Upon Award” ™ model means that your team won’t pay a fee, bill, surcharge, or any other type of payment up front. Our Principal Investigator informed approach applies to our business model as well. As a Principal Investigator, you wouldn’t receive funds for conceptualizing an idea, researching an idea, planning an idea, or writing a grant for an idea. Principal Investigator’s receive compensation only when they secure competitive grants. As your grant writer, we think that should apply to our services as well. Additionally, our partnership is built on transparency, meaning that you will know exactly how much our services will cost before we even submit a grant, and it will appear as a single fee that covers the entirety of our grant writing service. As a result, you can trust that we are fully invested in and aligned with your success because our business model depends on it. It’s rare to have such a strong client-service provider interest alignment, but we believe that type of alignment is what creates and maintains the invaluable trust between BHGC and our clients.
Advancing the Industry
The level of service we provide is an investment in you and your project. We’re dedicated to serving companies with promising innovations ready for the challenge of securing funding and ultimately commercialization. This guides our due diligence process, as our success does depend on your success.
Not all projects will be ready and competitive for the NIH SBIR/STTR program. But worry not! We are dedicated to advancing the knowledge of NIH grant writing for all projects. Through our website, resources, and blogs we are hopeful that even if your project is not currently ready for the NIH SBIR/STTR program, we are able to help you get SBIR/STTR competitive and therefore be a future BHGC client.
Ready to Start?
We firmly believe in our business model for preparing and submitting SBIR/STTR proposals and we believe our process provides our clients with a competitive advantage. Take your time and explore our website to see if you agree. And when you’re ready, schedule a free consultation to find out more about how BHGC can help you maximize your funding potential.