About GrantCraft
At GrantCraft Consulting, we help mission-driven organizations make grants easier to write, manage, monitor, and sustain.
Founded by Dr. Jace Gatzemeyer, PhD, CGMS, GrantCraft Consulting brings together advanced writing expertise, federal grants knowledge, and practical public-sector experience. Whether you are developing a competitive proposal, strengthening internal grant procedures, preparing for monitoring, or building tools to support compliance, GrantCraft helps translate complex requirements into clear, usable systems.
Jace’s path into grants began with research and writing, but his work has grown into full lifecycle grant support. As Finance and Program Integrity Unit Administrator for the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services, Division of Public Health, he leads a team focused on grant management, fiscal oversight, subrecipient monitoring, technical assistance, corrective action, audit readiness, and the development of practical policies, procedures, and tools for large federal and state funding streams.
Through GrantCraft Consulting, Jace supports researchers, nonprofits, public agencies, and community-based organizations with clear writing, careful analysis, and grant management solutions built for real-world use.
At GrantCraft Consulting, Jace helps organizations bring order, clarity, and strategy to the grant process. That may mean guiding a startup through an SBIR/STTR proposal, helping a university or nonprofit shape a stronger funding narrative, or working with a public agency to develop grant policies, procedures, monitoring tools, and documentation practices that actually work in day-to-day operations.
Jace’s path into grants began in the world of research, writing, and teaching. He earned a PhD in English from Penn State, published peer-reviewed scholarship, and taught courses in composition, rhetoric, technical writing, and literature. That background trained him to do what strong grant work often requires: read carefully, write clearly, organize complex information, and translate dense requirements into something people can use.
At the University of Nebraska Medical Center’s UNeTech Institute, Jace applied those skills to innovation and entrepreneurship, supporting startups and researchers as they pursued non-dilutive funding from agencies such as NIH, NSF, SBA, and EDA. That work gave him hands-on experience helping technical experts turn promising ideas into fundable, persuasive, and well-supported proposals.
Today, Jace’s work spans both sides of the grant lifecycle: helping organizations pursue funding and helping them manage awards responsibly after they are received. As a Certified Grants Management Specialist, he brings experience in federal and state grant administration, fiscal documentation, subrecipient monitoring, audit readiness, technical assistance, policy development, and practical compliance tools. GrantCraft Consulting reflects that blend of skills: strong writing, careful analysis, and grant management support built for real-world use.