Gil Gerald, now retired and writing a book about his LGBTQ and HIV activist years, has more than three decades of non-profit management, capacity-building, and fund development experience in organizations and projects addressing urgent needs in socially and economically marginalized groups. After graduating with a Bachelors in Architecture and nine years of work in that field, he became involved in the effort to curb the crisis of HIV and thus involved in nonprofit social services and issue advocacy. He has served in executive, senior management and Board positions in national and in local, community-based organizations. As the head of his consulting firm, established in 1990, he developed into an experienced provider and broker of technical assistance, training and capacity-building services to community-based non-profits and government agencies. He is an accomplished grant writer, having assisted very small organizations to obtain their first grant, and larger ones, including a County health department he assisted to renew an $8 million cooperative agreement with the CDC.Gil Gerald's personal background informs his work; he possesses bilingual and multicultural competencies based on being a first generation immigrant to the US, a naturalized US citizen, a native of Panamá, a member of the African Diaspora, and part of the Post-Stonewall lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. He is featured in the documentary film, After Stonewall. His writing has been published in two anthologies and in various periodicals.Mr. Gerald's specialties include: Program Planning, Grant Writing, Fundraising and Development, Strategic Planning, Technical Assistance and Capacity Building for Non-Profit Organizations, Cultural Competency Technical Assistance and Training, Program Evaluation, and Technical Report Writing.