1. Coaching our first $100M+ proposal launching an AI & Science Breakthrough 🤖

Carinci Consulting served as proposal coach on a partner team supporting a landmark initiative spearheaded by a collaborative of AI experts across the United States.

Supported by a public–private funding partnership, the project is building fully open AI models to transform how U.S. scientists leverage AI for discovery. We’re honored to have helped shape a proposal that supports U.S. leadership in open, AI-enabled science and innovation.

2. Expanding Economic Mobility Pathways 🎓💼

Supported projects that:

• Provide targeted academic, personal, financial, and social supports for 140 low-income, first-generation, and/or students with disabilities to boost persistence, retention, and graduation.
• Offer annual scholarships for 82 high-achieving, low-income STEM students (including community college transfers) to cover most unmet financial need—preparing future scientists, engineers, and data professionals in high-demand fields.
• Equip 45 low-income urban adults with integrated workforce development and financial literacy programming to increase stability and long-term opportunity.

3. Accelerating Research Potential in Underserved Regions & Institutions 🔬🌊

Provided feedback on planning for a resilient energy technology ecosystem across two states.

Helped secure funding to:

• Strengthen marine research infrastructure serving 400+ students from nine universities, increasing competitiveness for future grants and building K–12 partnerships.
• Advance careers at primarily undergraduate institutions:
  • For a pre-tenure faculty to develop a research program investigating the effects of native environment and external stressors on diatom light harvesting.
  • For a mid-career faculty to provide protected time to rebuild her research program in the field of parasite taxonomy and systematics.

4. Catalyzing Healthcare Workforce Development in Underserved Communities 🩺🏥

Contributed to initiatives that:

• Train Master of Social Work students to provide integrated, culturally responsive care in school-based health centers.
• Expand access to addiction treatment through an addiction medicine fellowship in the historic epicenter of the opioid crisis.
• Launch a new family medicine residency program to address acute primary care shortages in rural communities.

5. Advancing Youth Well-Being & Safety 🧒🏽🛡️

Supported funding for:

• Lead testing in childcare drinking water to protect young children’s health.
• Youth programs that promote positive social behaviors, increase community engagement, and reduce risk of violence.

6. Expanding High-Quality Out-of-School Time Learning 📚🌅

Secured contributing resources to:

• Provide free, full-day summer programming for ~1,600 urban youth, mitigating summer learning loss.
• Sustain low-cost after-school programs offering certified teacher instruction and healthy meals for underserved K–8 students.

7. Giving Back as Federal Peer Reviewers 📝

Carinci Consulting served as a peer reviewer for federal programs focused on sustaining, replicating, and scaling innovative, evidence-based educational practices—bringing back fresh insights to strengthen client proposals.

8. Evaluating Capacity-Building for Future Science Educators 🔭

Evaluated a capacity-building project designed to develop a secondary science licensure program, helping address the national need for high-quality secondary science teachers.

9. Recognized as an Influential Businesswoman in 2025 👩‍💼

Founder & Principal Consultant Dr. Jennifer Carinci was honored in Acquisition International’s 2025 Influential Businesswoman Awards, which spotlight women driving meaningful impact and excellence across sectors. A humbling reminder that the work we’re doing together is being noticed beyond the grants world.

10. #1 in Lexington, SC: BusinessRate “Best of 2025” Award 🏆

Carinci Consulting was named among BusinessRate’s Best of 2025 and ranked #1 in Lexington, South Carolina in August 2025 based on an independent analysis of our Google reviews.

BusinessRate goes beyond star counts, looking at recent trends and fair comparisons within category and location. That means this recognition is directly tied to the experiences and feedback of organizations like yours.

💛If we’ve had the chance to work together and you haven’t left a review yet, we’d be truly grateful: your feedback helps other mission-driven organizations find support that works—and helps us keep growing our impact alongside yours.