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Deliver high quality grants services to institutions of higher education across the U.S. as part of a dedicated grants office. Assess institutional grants function, develop grants strategic plan, conduct prospect research, facilitate project planning and management, develop proposals, and monitor compliance of funded awards. Provide thought leadership to.

Various Locations And My Living Room

• 2005-present. Freelance Work. Worked for many organizations fund and expand programming: Attachment Parenting International, Men of Valor, Metro Schools, Musicians Corner (Conservancy for the Parthenon and Centennial.
• 2014-present. Metropolitan Nashville. Conducted Grant writing workshop for Metropolitan Nashville Public Library (teaching logic model and grant writing process for Adult Education organizations); sat on review.

Established in 1969, the United South and Eastern Tribes, Inc. (USET) is a non-profit, inter-Tribal organization dedicated to enhancing the development of Tribal Nations (33 members), improving the capabilities of Tribal governments, and improving the quality of life for Indian people through a variety of technical and supportive programmatic services..

Greater Nashville Area, TN

Founded in 1894, Martha O’Bryan Center provides a cradle to college to career continuum of education, health and employment solutions for our city’s most distressed neighborhood. My role as Grants Manager involved critical thinking, organization, clear and creative writing, project management, and supervision. Duties included researching and identifying.

I have extensive experience publishing essays, short stories, and poems in numerous literary journals and books (www.doughoekstra.net), and have four books out on various independent presses. National Awards: “The Blarney Stone” (essay) nominated for a Pushcart Prize (2006);“Bothering the Coffee Drinkers” (short stories” nominated for an Independent.

Greater Nashville Area, TN

I taught English Composition 1 and II at Watkins (as senior adjunct) for a decade, drawing on a variety of learner-based strategies, employing film, television, speeches, visual art, and music to give multimedia reinforcement of structure and themes found in essays and fiction. This creates an interactive classroom with discussion centered on process as.

Washington D.C.

• 2013. U.S. Department of Education. Worked as federal grant reviewer for the Department’s I3 (Investing in Innovation) grants, reading and scoring applications and budgets, via G5 and teleconferences
• 2005-2009. U.S. Administration of Children and Families. Worked as federal grant reviewer for Compassion Capital Fund. This included training in Washington D.C. in 2005 and remote work in 2006-2009, including being.

Su Casa, Mi Casa

For several years, I worked as a singer-songwriter troubadour who released eight albums of original material on several independent labels, touring throughout the U.S. and Europe, performing at bookstores, coffeehouses, clubs, libraries, pubs, festivals, radio stations, and castles, solo and with band in tow. Highlights included but were not limited to.

Volunteer State is the Nashville area's largest community college. It is an extremely diverse population of students, in terms of age, gender, and race. I taught a range of English Composition classes, including WebCT Internet-based sections, primarily Essay Writing courses that focus on "writing argumentative compositions based on issues raised in essays.

M.Ed., English/Education, 3.87 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Sigma Tau Delta, Kappa Delta Pi Honors Societies, fiction published in Belmont Literary Journal

M.A., English/Creative Writing

Activities and Societies: Graduated with high distinction, published in Fallout and Threshold literary magazines