| Carrie Rothburd founded Grant Central
Station in 2000 and continues to lead the firm�s growth. For more than two
decades, she has been researching, planning, and grant writing. Her grant
expertise has won funding for nonprofits, tribes, and government entities in
numerous sectors, including social and human services, municipal and county
governments, school and educational service districts, fire departments, and
tribes. Her areas of specialty include: education, transportation, the arts,
domestic violence intervention, services for elders and people with
disabilities, environmental conservation, youth development, and employment
training. She holds an M.A. in educational policy from the
University of Wisconsin - Madison, an M.A. in creative writing from New Mexico
State University, and is completing an M.A. in journalism at New York
University.
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| Arianna Dogil has been a professional writer
and editor for more than 10 years, consulting on a wide range of proposal,
marketing, and advertising projects. She has created ad copy, web copy, direct
mail, case studies, and white papers for corporate and small business clients.
In recent years, Arianna has worked as a proposal writer for nonprofits and has
been highly successful securing funding in the areas of education, tribal
development, services for women, and youth development. When clients need
primary research or marketing strategy analysis before undertaking a new
project, Arianna takes the lead. She holds a B.A. with honors in English from
the University of California, Irvine.
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| Sara Shopkow is a Grant Writing Consultant based in Oakland, CA. She has earned a Grant
Writing Training Foundation Certificate;Certificate
to teach English as a Foreign Language;Certificate
in Publishing, UC Berkeley Extension;Master
of Public Health, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor, and a BA,
Biology, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH. Sara supports clients in their search for funding that
appropriately matches their programs and strategic plans by coaching, writing,
and editing proposals. She also conducts funding research. She brings the following assets to the team: Grant coach for Options for Life (2006), an addiction
recovery halfway house, to help them see how to present themselves.Editor of federal grant applications for addiction
medicine (2005-2007). Collaboration on successful grant for HIV/AIDS funding
for the East Oakland Community Project, resulting in an award of
130% of request (2004).Grant proposal consulting and editing for academia and
nonprofit organizations. Copy, edit and proofread technical manuals, nonfiction books
and articles, health care and medical subject matter, catalogs
and marketing materials, grants, newsletters, and textbooks. Developmentally edited nursing textbooks, nonfiction
books, fiction manuscripts, and web sites.
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Kim Richardson is the
President and owner of Kimberly Richardson Consulting, LLC,
specializing in the provision of federal grant writing, management and
technical assistance to municipal, non-profit, and faith-based organizations in
Alabama and the southern U.S.
With 15 years of grants experience
gained from working in the non-profit and public sectors, Kim has successfully
secured funding from every segment of the grant-making community, including government
agencies, corporate funders, and foundations.
Since 2000, she has provided assistance resulting in over $16 million in
grant funding for non-profit organizations and municipal agencies nationwide, including
the City of Birmingham (AL), the Beaumont (TX) Independent School District, and
the Community Action Association of Alabama.
Critical management assistance was also provided to municipalities agencies
receiving Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds and other federal
grants valued at over $10 million.
Kim holds a Bachelors degree
from Baldwin-Wallace College in Ohio and a Master's of Science in Urban Affairs
from Cleveland State University. In
2009, she became the first grant writer in the State of
Alabama to obtain the Grants Professional Certification (GPC)
awarded by the Grants Professional Certification Institute, and she is
currently the only grant professional in the state holding this credential.
She is a member of the Grants Professionals Association and has served on the
Board of Directors of the local chapter of the Association of Fundraising
Professionals. She also serves on the
Agency Impact Committee of the United Way of Central Alabama.
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