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Work with me · Custom Services

One practice for the whole arc of your work.

Design, build, coaching, evaluation, and engagement, woven together so your team gets help that fits exactly where you are.

Most of this work arrives alongside an office already doing it: research development, sponsored programs, broader impacts, engagement. I am the extra pair of hands on the specific piece nobody has time to build, adding capacity to what your institution already runs.

Evaluation

For PIs, centers, NSF/agency cohorts

Participatory, funded-project reporting that turns activity into credible evidence of impact.

What you get
A participatory evaluation plan built with your team, not handed down
Funder-ready reporting aligned to NSF and agency expectations
Cross-site frameworks that make a cohort comparable

If you are part of the STEMsaic Community, arrange a 30 minute paid meeting. If not, please use the contact form to reach out.

Partnership & Program Design

For institutions and consortia

Designing the science:society interface so specialized pieces resolve into one clear picture.

What you get
A mapped interface: roles, structures, and the seams between them, from $970
Program architecture that aligns partners, not only their calendars
A design others can staff, fund, and sustain without you

If you are part of the STEMsaic Community, arrange a 30 minute paid meeting. If not, please use the contact form to reach out.

Grant Development Together

For faculty teams and centers

Building competitive proposals as partners, not vendors, from concept to submission.

What you get
Concept shaping and competitive positioning from day one
Broader-impacts and partnership design baked into the proposal
A co-developed submission, with me in the room as a partner

If you are part of the STEMsaic Community, arrange a 30 minute paid meeting. If not, please use the contact form to reach out.

Put your whole team on this.

Community seats and STEM Partnership Lab seats both scale to a full team. No separate engagement needed.

Community group seats: $149.25/seat/year, minimum 3.
Get seats on the Group tab →
STEM Partnership Lab seats: $750/seat/year or $75/month.
Get seats on the Individual tab →

A Lab seat works across all four: Grant Development for Partnership Programs (across disciplines), Professional Development & Support to Sustain your Partnership Programs, NSF CAREER Applicant (Designing your Broader Impacts), and NSF CAREER Awardees (Implementing your Broader Impacts).

Group, Team, and Cohort Lab Purchases

If you are part of a collaborative project or your campus already has a research development or broader impacts core doing this well, bring these pieces together and use the STEM Partnership Lab parts for individual and small group faculty work. This is one more resource in your kit. STEMsaic's STEM Partnership Labs are designed to plug into the workshops, cohorts and programs you already run. This combination of synced and asynchronous activities can help with the demanding staff and faculty schedules of all involved.

Institutional purchasing: need an invoice or a purchase order instead of a card? Use the invoice request form →

Next step

Two ways to reach me.

If you are part of the STEMsaic Community, arrange a 30 minute paid meeting. If not, please use the contact form to reach out. Describe the work the way you would describe it to a colleague: an outside evaluator for a broader impacts section, a map of who is actually in a partnership, a co-investigator rather than a subcontractor. No product name required.

Community: book the $30 meeting → Everyone else: contact form →

Institutional purchasing: need an invoice or a purchase order instead of a card? Use the invoice request form.

Track record

You're not hiring a checklist. You're getting a practice with more than fifteen years inside funded partnerships.

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