Metis Associates
Empowering mission-driven organizations to achieve social impact through grant awards, program strategies, and evaluation. Access nearly five decades of experience through a collaborative, flexible partnership.
Our Services
We offer a full continuum of strategic services from grant writing to technical assistance and external evaluation.
Grant Writing
We develop your full grant application package with “soup-to-nuts” grant writing support. This includes program and strategy development, proposal narratives, logic models, and supplementary materials.
Program Evaluation
Make a real difference for children, families, and communities. Partner with expert evaluators with technical expertise in evaluation design, measurement, data systems, and program implementation.
Impact Evaluation
Build a body of evidence to quantify your program’s impact. Our WWC-trained evaluation consultants use rigorous methodologies to establish a causal effect between your program and its outcomes.
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Who We Serve
Leverage a tenured team with deep expertise in your specific area of work.
K-12 school districts
We bring a profound understanding of P-12 operations from the classroom to the boardroom. Our expertise encompasses early learning to college and career readiness to special populations.
Non-profit organizations
Hundreds of non-profits have trusted Metis to bring meaningful change to communities. Whether you’re a local or national organization, we can help you secure funding and assess program efficacy to deliver impactful services to your participant community.
Colleges and universities
We help to build institutional capacity and resilience to better serve diverse student populations. Leverage our technical expertise to improve college access, persistence, and success.
Deep Expertise and Experience
Our clients receive a broad range of supports, including our specialized services for Magnet School Assistance Program (MSAP) grants, Full Service Community School grants, arts education, youth development, and more.
The Metis Difference
Learn why hundreds of mission-driven organizations trust us with their projects.
The full journey
Get guidance through the entire grant process, from planning to program development to writing a winning grant. We also offer the opportunity to continue working with us in an evaluation capacity.
Experience
Leverage our nearly 50 years of supporting social services missions. We’ve carried out thousands of successful projects nationwide to improve the lives of children, families, and communities through over $1 billion in grants and impactful research.
Data-driven
Maximize your stakeholder buy-in with digestible data and results. We break down the technical jargon and communicate complex data analyses in accessible language.
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Successful client outcomes
Metis partnered with Center For Family Services, winning over $30 million to help a coalition of cross-sector partners transform one of the most challenged cities in the U.S. into a place of opportunity and promise.
The Girl Scouts of Greater New York engaged Metis over the past four summers to study their Urban Day Camp program.
New York City Department of Education
Metis partners with ArtsCount to show the impact of quality arts education for all students across approximately 1,700 public schools in New York City.
Client Testimonials
“Because of the Metis partnership, we were able to tell a compelling success story based on accurate data.”
Collin Callaway
Chief Operations Officer
Arkansas Community Colleges
“Metis is a first-rate company with highly professional staff and proven results. On our last federal grant proposal, they guided us through the process with expert advice and thoughtful insights from their years of experience, all of which helped us to develop a meaningful and impactful program and a winning proposal.”
Cory Cotto
Former Director of Operations and Development
Center for Educational Innovation
“[Metis’s] work has greatly contributed to informing and supporting our efforts to provide quality, effective programming to students and families that need it most.”
JeNell C. LaRue
Former Director, GEAR UP
School District of Philadelphia
The Metis Team
We’re a group of mission-driven grant writers, researchers, evaluators, and more—and we bring our whole selves to client partnerships. Our long-tenured team brings nearly five decades of experience across all service and focus areas. We care deeply about client relationships, which we foster through personalized collaboration and communication.
Talk to us to get started
Get in touch with us to learn more about our services and how we can best help you achieve your mission.