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Michael C.

Expert RFP, Grant and Business Writer

Offering nearly 40 years of professional government relations and business writing. Specialties include RFP responses for government services and innovative technology development grants. I provide deep experience in climate change and novel green energy solutions, mitigation and planning grants, GIS systems, and their application. Principal RFP/Grant Writer, gaining $289 million in awards from federal, state, and local government contracts and government and private foundation grants. Contract awards include EPA, DoS, DoD (USAF, USN), NOAA, and DoJ, among others, and multiple state government awards. Grant awards include the National Science Foundation, DoE, USDA, NIH, DoD/DARPA, and SBIRs from multiple agencies; Federal, state, and private foundation awards in advanced technology development and commercialization, emergency feeding programs and social services, operating, and capital grant funding. RFP Consultant: I have been engaged to provide research, define requirements, and write RFP offerings for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the University of Salisbury (MD), and multiple municipal government organizations. Business Writer: I have completed multiple business article assignments for SKIM Business Journal (Spatial Knowledge & Information Management) Distribution among the governments and universities of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Persian Gulf): Multiple articles on the Application of GIS technologies for regional development: Climate Change and Resource Management; Energy, Urban Development and Transportation and International Trade and Finance Sectors. Other assignments included national economic profiles for Strategy Reports (an international business journal), focused on Latin America, providing articles on Energy, Transportation, the Panama Canal Expansion, Finance & Banking, and Communications Technology Sectors in Panama and Guatemala; multiple assignments for the SAGE Encyclopedia of World Poverty. Freestore Foodbank (2011-2013) - Grant Writer, gaining $4 million in public, corporate, and private foundation grants for anti-poverty food distribution, social services, and capital campaigns. As Manager for Information Services at U.S. EPA (Labat Anderson 1999-2008), I provided advanced client services to 56 separate offices of the Agency and their national outreach programs. I was the Assistant Project Manager at NSCEP, the Agency's national contact and order processing center for publications. I have strong knowledge of climate change and its economic, military, and political impact, national water & air quality programs & policies. I was Director for Public Information for the National Space Society (Philadelphia office); writing white papers, newsletters & congressional briefing books. Contributing panelist, OMNI Magazine symposium on US Space Policy. Strong knowledge of space launch systems, in-space manufacturing, and energy generation and defense systems.

🇺🇸Cincinnati, United States$60/hr100% JSS4.74 (143)Since Jul 2015

Earnings and projects

MRR (estimate)
≈$1.9k

An estimate from an earlier read

World#24,855 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,252 / 62.1k
Revenue, last 30 days
$1.4k

Last 6 months: $11k

World#31,190 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#5,322 / 62.1k
Total earnings
$358k

Billed in all: $365k

World#5,523 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#1,607 / 62.1k
Per project
$1.3k

$1.4k in the last 6 months

World#107,209 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#18,255 / 62.1k
Projects, last 6 months
8
25% fixed75% hourly
World#24,499 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#3,600 / 62.1k
Projects in all
285

Across 305 contracts

20% fixed80% hourly
World#5,379 / 412k
🇺🇸Country#976 / 62.1k

Earnings, last 30 days

$365k+$1.4k earned in the last 30 daysBilled in all, before Upwork's fee · drag across the chart to see what was earned in any stretch
$363k$364k$365k$366kOct 9Oct 24Nov 8

No data since Nov 5, 2026.

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