A congressional ban on earmarks in 2011 has required applicants seeking federal funding to shift their focus to competitive grant applications. FaegreBD Consulting has assisted clients in searching for relevant opportunities, evaluating whether or not to pursue these opportunities, and advised on and written grant applications. Since the ban on earmarks went into place, FaegreBD Consulting has assisted clients in pursuing grant applications to numerous federal agencies, including Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Department of Defense (DOD), Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), Department of Energy (DOE), Economic Development Administration (EDA), Federal Transit Administration (FTA), Department of the Treasury (Treasury), the Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

FaegreBD Consulting offers a full array of grant services and is prepared to offer the mix of services appropriate to the client's needs. Services include:

• Grant search and identification
• Grant research
• Grant strategy consulting
• Grant management and audit response
• Grant proposal editing
• Grant proposal preparation

FaegreBD Consulting clients have been awarded a wide variety of federal grants, including a number of discretionary grants from high-profile programs. These awards include:

• NICTD: Transit-Oriented Development Planning Grant – $300,000
• DOE: Offshore Wind Program – Advanced Technology Demonstration – $4 million
• DOT: National Infrastructure Investments (TIGER Program) – $20 million
• Treasury: 2011 Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program – $1.02 million
• Treasury: 2012 Community Development Financial Institutions Fund Program – $1.45 million
• EDA: Jobs and Innovation Accelerator Challenge – $3.89 million (Multiple awards)
• HUD: Sustainable Communities Challenge Grant – $106,500
• HUD: Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program and Healthy Homes Program – $4.48 million (Multiple awards)
• EPA: Brownfields Cleanup and Assessment Grant Programs – $600,000 total (Multiple awards)
• EPA: 2011 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative – $1 million
• EPA: 2013 Great Lakes Restoration Initiative – $351,743 
• FTA: 2011 State of Good Repair (Bus and Bus Facilities) Program – $3.3 million
• FTA: 2012 State of Good Repair and Bus Livability Programs – $11.53 million (Multiple awards)
• FWS: Boating Infrastructure Grant Program – $200,000
• CMS: Health Care Innovation Challenge Grant – $20.75 million
• DOD/DOE/Commerce/NSF/NASA: National Network for Manufacturing Innovation – $100,000 (individual share of a $30 million consortium award)

Since the beginning of 2011, FaegreBD Consulting clients have been awarded more than $72.77 million in federal discretionary grant funding.