Amanda L.

Proven Successful Grant Writer / NIH / SBIR / NSF / DOD / Foundations

I am a skilled fundraising professional with more than 20 years of experience as a professional grant developer and strategist and more than $40 million raised for universities, nonprofits, and small businesses. I've amassed a huge amount of knowledge on the fundraising and grant development / writing process, and my specialized skill, or super power, is having worked with funders directly for 20 years. I know what they want. I know the secret language of fundraising and grant writing, and I know how to present your project to be successful. My fundraising work has been publicly recognized; in 2013, I was named Fundraising Professional of the Year by Nonprofit Pro (see portfolio link). I have worked at major national organizations such as Adventure Cycling Association and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and regional organizations such as the LA Opera, Dance Resource Center of Greater Los Angeles, and Jacksonville Symphony. As a grant writer, I have successfully raised funds from the National Institutes for Health, National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, UCLA, the Surdna Foundation, the Terra Foundation for American Art, and many more. I have built business partnerships and sponsorships in the finance, banking, bicycling, sales, marketing, health, music, automotive, logistics, publishing, construction, restaurant, convenience, manufacturing, and retail industries. I work with nonprofit organizations and individual researchers/artists in many fields including medical research, healthcare, sustainable transportation, environmental studies, visual and performing arts, k-12 education, higher education, recreation, sports, and more. My skills include major gifts fundraising, developing corporate sponsorships, grant writing, business proposal writing, stewarding planned gifts, managing capital campaigns, leading teams of development professionals, managing volunteer leadership, annual fund development and growth, and direct mail implementation. I provide assistance with project development, evaluation design, strategic planning, marketing and social media marketing. I also provide editorial services for research being prepared for submission to peer-reviewed journals. Disclaimer: using any part of this bio, my copyrighted website, or my resume is fraud and theft of my intellectual property. This is a cease and desist order. I do not assent to any use of my profile language or my website.