Universities and colleges
More funded proposals from every office on campus
A campus raises grant money from two offices that rarely share tools. Foundation and corporate relations courts private funders for campus priorities. Research development helps faculty win federal and foundation awards for their own work. Quillify serves both from one search across 4,300+ open grants and 129,000+ funders on file.
For foundation and corporate relations
- Funders who already give to campuses like yours
- Name peer institutions and see which foundations fund them, from their own 990 filings. Each funder's giving history shows what it supports and how much it gives.
- Your trustees' connections, mapped
- Paste your board or trustee list. Quillify checks every name against the officers and trustees on the filings of 129,000+ foundations. Each match is a warm lead to confirm with that trustee.
- Proposals drafted from your case for support
- Upload the case for support, program descriptions and past proposals once. The same campus priorities then carry into every proposal without anyone rewriting the background section from scratch for each new foundation. Quillify drafts each new proposal from them and scores it against what the funder asked for. Free case for support template.
For research development and faculty
- New opportunities the week they post
- Quillify reads each full announcement, including eligibility and any limit on applications per institution. How to run limited submissions.
- Drafts from the researcher's own work
- A faculty member uploads papers and protocols. Quillify drafts the application from them, including the sections that are not the science. Quillify for researchers.
- A weekly funding digest for every department
- Save a search for each department or college. A chemistry department and a school of social work can each get their own list without anyone in the research office sorting the announcements by hand. Every week Quillify screens the new opportunities against it and sends only the ones that fit. Faculty hear about a program while there is still time to apply.
- A scoreboard across the institution
- The admin view shows who is applying, what is pending and what has been won. It never opens a faculty member's drafts. Quillify for research development offices.
Alongside the systems you already run
Quillify covers discovery, eligibility, drafting and outcome tracking. Your CRM keeps donor records and your sponsored programs system keeps routing and submission. Finished proposals move into those systems the way they do today. A foundation relations officer can look for funders of a new science building in the same tool a research office uses to watch the latest federal programs for faculty.
Has anyone actually done this?
Universities are among the hundreds of customers we have served. The story below shows the volume a campus office handles: 26 separate proposals from one organization.
Rather than applying for grants directly, this customer wrote their services into other organizations' proposals, and won work from 26 of them.
Free templates
- Case for support template
A free case for support template: the core document that explains why your organization deserves funding, reusable across grants and donors.
- Grant proposal template
A free grant proposal template with fill-in text for every standard section, from the summary and statement of need to the budget and evaluation.
- NIH Specific Aims page template
A free NIH Specific Aims page template: the opening gap, your hypothesis, two or three aims and the payoff, all on one page.
- NSF Project Summary template
A free NSF Project Summary template with the three required parts: Overview, Intellectual Merit and Broader Impacts.
Talk to us about your campus.
Or start free and try it on a single proposal first. Both are reasonable places to start.