I help nonprofit leaders fund their priorities through major private grants. My clients regularly win their largest, most impactful awards from corporate and independent foundations. I am documenting many of these adventures in a series of monthly articles called Major Grants (majorgrants.substack.com). I care deeply about the causes my clients champion. What makes me most proud is that our work together sets them on a path to years of exponentially greater revenue.Prior to founding Resource Partners, I served as National Director, Foundations at the United Negro College Fund. There, I was part of the small team that designed and secured the historic Gates Millennium Scholars, a $1.6 billion program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. This and so many other major grants have resulted in a career’s worth of encounters with people who have been directly affected by the resulting work. For me, that has been the ultimate gift.My work has been featured by The Chronicle of Philanthropy, Candid (formerly Guidestar/The Foundation Center), the Grant Professionals Association, and the Association of Fundraising Professionals. My role as trustee at the National Center for Children and Families is the latest of many volunteer roles. I have taught a graduate course in fund development at Johns Hopkins University have written and edited multiple books.