Did You Know: Catalyst is a Certified HubSpot Partner

The challenges we see in SLED grants and economic development

These are the realities we hear every day from grants and economic development teams:

Your data lives everywhere except one place. Program and grant data is scattered across CRM instances, spreadsheets, Google Sheets, and point tools, so no one has the full picture.

Impact is hard to prove. Without visibility into the full lifecycle, from application to award to outcome, reporting to leadership, boards, and funders is painful and time-consuming.

Marketing, outreach, and events operate in silos. Disconnected teams mean missed opportunities to attract, engage, and retain local businesses and partners.

You need a partner, not just new software. Most teams have limited internal CRM and automation expertise. Modernizing your programs takes both a technical and a strategic partner.

One platform for outreach, relationships, and your web presence

We implement HubSpot end to end, focused on the areas where SLED teams feel the most pain:

• Unify your data in one system of record. Move off scattered CRM instances and spreadsheets into a HubSpot CRM that centralizes contacts, organizations, grants, programs, and stakeholders for every team that touches them.
• Launch in weeks, not quarters. Quick wins go live in your first sprints, centralized contacts, modern email, working pipelines, not after months of build. That speed also means licensing and services that actually fit a public sector budget.
• Modernize outreach and business engagement. Targeted outreach to local businesses, program promotion, event management, and reporting on what actually drives applications, jobs, and investment.
• Agile, side-by-side consulting for the public sector. We don’t just install software. We work alongside your team, teaching best practices so your staff is equipped to go forth and conquer long after implementation.

After you choose HubSpot, you get a dedicated project team with public sector experience. We work in sprints, gather feedback early, and train your grants, economic development, and communications teams so they’re confident running campaigns, pipelines, and reporting on their own. Post-launch, our Managed Services Department supports ongoing consulting and quarterly reviews to keep your instance aligned to evolving programs, funding sources, and KPIs.

If your agency is ready to consolidate its tools, simplify its budget, and launch in weeks, we’d love to show you what HubSpot could look like for your programs and your reporting.