Grantmakers make it possible to cure debilitating disease, develop breakthrough technologies, create sustainable jobs, and meet critical social needs.

But there's a lot more to it than giving money away.

Lytmos Group, a wholly owned subsidiary of Solix, inc., is dedicated to helping grant programs accelerate progress by applying best practices to:

• Inviting grant applications
• Making funding decisions
• Managing grants
• Evaluating grant performance
• Telling the success stories

Lytmos' services include peer review, grant management, program management, and communications.

Peer Review

When complex technology or leading edge practices are involved, peer reviews are often the best means of identifying the highest potential projects and assessing project progress.  Meaningful evaluations depend on the caliber of the reviewers and the integrity of the process.  Lytmos can help get the most out of a peer review process. Read more... 

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Grant Management

By nature, grants are risky.  Some projects yield terrific solutions, many make incremental gains, and some projects fail.  Besides helping to demonstrate sound financial management, we can help move more projects into the terrific category and reduce losses on failing projects. Read more... 

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Program Management

Effective project management, efficient business processes, and meaningful information systems are key characteristics of well-run grant programs.  Lytmos can help program managers spend less time fighting fires and focus more attention on planning, strategy and evaluation. Read more... 

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Communications

Program stakeholders (such as legislators or members of the public) want information about program results on a timely basis.  Complicating the issue, applicants and grantees are experts in the detailed science or art of their potential solutions, and their language for communicating projects and results are often highly specialized.  Lytmos can help programs convey meaningful program impact and effective administration. Read more...

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