Blue Sky Consulting helps organizations improve their operational performance and become more effective and efficient, to improve their bottom line. Our areas of expertise include strategic planning, change management, internal audit, organizational assessment, market research, risk mitigation, systems review, process improvement, staffing analysis, feasibility studies, and governance structure.

Blue Sky Consulting supports grantmakers with all aspects of grant administration, including grant planning, application review, grant management, report review, and grantee monitoring. We assist with pre-award and post-award needs, including developing funding opportunities, identifying grant requirements, reviewing and scoring applications, conducting applicant capability assessments, monitoring grant performance, reviewing financial and performance reports, conducting desk reviews, and providing technical assistance to grant recipients.

Blue Sky Consulting assists hopeful and current grant recipients with project planning, application development, grant administration, report development, and monitoring progress. We can help plan your projects and programs, identify budgets / milestones / deliverables, research potential funding sources, identify requirements, and prepare grant applications. We also assist with grant administration, including assessing financial systems, monitoring project performance, documentation management, data collection, financial and performance report writing, audit support, and subrecipient assessment and monitoring.

Blue Sky Consulting helps organizations to understand compliance, performance, and internal audit processes. We support and conduct internal audits and desk reviews of systems and processes from business-wide to the functional level. We help grantmakers monitor grant performance through audit design, desk review, and finding and recommendation tracking, and we support grant recipients with navigating all phases of compliance and performance audits – explaining the overall audit process, evidence gathering methods, audit defense and response, and implementation and closure.