Strengthening Funding Readiness. Supporting Doctoral Success.

Higher education institutions invest deeply in doctoral students and emerging researchers—but many scholars lack the knowledge, confidence, and strategic support needed to successfully navigate competitive funding opportunities.

Franco Funding Strategies partners with doctoral programs, graduate schools, and higher education leaders to build sustainable funding capacity through customized workshops, training programs, and strategic consulting.

Together, we help institutions develop the knowledge, infrastructure, and educational pathways that empower scholars to pursue funding more strategically.

Let’s Strengthen Your Institution’s Funding Capacity

Every institution has different students, research priorities, and funding challenges.

Franco Funding Strategies can work with your institution to design a funding initiative that aligns with your goals and supports the scholars you serve.

Complimentary Institutional Consultation

Institutional Services

Doctoral Funding Readiness Programs

Equip doctoral students with the knowledge, skills, and confidence needed to successfully navigate the funding landscape and pursue competitive scholarships, fellowships, and grants.

Programs can include:

Understanding the academic funding landscape
Identifying aligned funding opportunities
Developing individual funding strategies
Building competitive grant-writing skills
Creating sustainable funding timelines
Preparing students to pursue funding throughout their doctoral journey

Ideal for: Doctoral programs, graduate schools, and student success initiatives.

Grant Writing Workshops & Training Series

Provide scholars and researchers with structured, practical training designed to strengthen their ability to develop competitive funding proposals.

Workshop topics may include:

Funding Foundations

Understanding different types of funding
Finding and evaluating opportunities
Assessing funder alignment
Building a strategic funding pipeline

Proposal Development

Developing compelling project narratives
Connecting goals, activities, and outcomes
Writing for specific funder audiences
Strengthening impact and significance statements

Application Strategy

Creating funding timelines
Managing application requirements
Responding to funder priorities
Preparing for future funding opportunities

Ideal for: Graduate programs, research centers, faculty development programs, and professional development initiatives.

Why Partner with Franco Funding Strategies?

Building Institutional Capacity Through Funding Education

Franco Funding Strategies works at the intersection of doctoral student success, funding strategy, and research development.

We help institutions move beyond one-time funding support by building the skills, systems, and opportunities scholars need to pursue funding with greater confidence and strategy.

Our goal is to help institutions build sustainable funding capacity that extends beyond a single application or workshop.