Michele Ann Clarke Writer, Screenwriter, Grant Writer, Author Email & Phone Number

Castaic, Ca, Us

Los Angeles County, California, United States

1. Wrote screenplays in the following genres: Historical Fiction, Sci-Fi, Romantic Comedy, Adventure, Thriller, Suspense, Mystery, Documentary, Fantasy, and Children’s. 2. Reviewed and edited screenplays that were submitted from the outside, taking notes as I went through them. Set up a meeting with any writers where the screenplays looked promising. 3. In this part-time role of 20 hours a week, reviewed 20-40 scripts a week. 4. Updated website with fresh content at least monthly if not sooner. 5. As a producer, I would work with the screenwriter to find out everything I could as to how they came up with the idea an anyone else that may be involved and could potentially come back claiming that it is part their idea and that they are partial owner of the IP. 6. With scripts that were selected, I helped pitch it to major movie/television studios by presenting it to those who would make a decision. This is a new task that was added in 11/2023. 7. Worked with the legal department to get Option Contracts. 8. Got Actors, Producer or Director on board with the project prior to pitching it to all the big studios.

Los Angeles, California, United States

1. Research is important in nearly all of the projects that I work on. As an experienced researcher, I use only reputable sites such as government, education, and websites from experts in that particular field. 2. Took notes, wrote the rough draft using SEO tactics, edited the article, wrote the final, edited it again, read aloud edit, reviewed again to grammar and spelling, and finally submitted the piece. 3. Reviewed trending topics to create story ideas to pitch to the editors.4. Edited other content writers' articles for clarity, keywords, spelling, and grammatical errors.5. Using databases such as Grants.gov and the Foundation Center, I searched for funding opportunities at the local, county, state, foundation, corporate, and federal levels for both nonprofit and for-profit companies that were in need of funding.6. Developed programs for nonprofit and for-profit companies. I would research the entire plan to figure out staffing, space needed to run the program, and materials needed. I would create the budge and a financial forecast for the first 5 years of operation. Next, I would write the job descriptions, employee handbook, and all personnel documentation needed.7. Interviewed each company to discover the heart and soul of the organization. If they did not have a mission statement as well as goals and objectives I would help them write those as well. I would ask them everything so that I could write as an expert on their business. 8. Wrote web content for each business including the About Page, Services, Questions & Answers, Leadership Bio's, and the Contact Us Page. 9. Wrote E-Mails, Letters, Proposals, Grant Proposals, Press Releases, Letter of Inquiry, Articles, White Papers, Scripts, and any other written documents that the company needed. 10. Held meetings in order to talk about grant opportunities and learn about what programs the team was interested in.

Albany, New York Metropolitan Area

1. Researched to identify new funding opportunities at the federal, state, foundation, and corporate levels that matched the organizations priorities..2. Assisted a wide variety of nonprofit and for-profit organizations both nationally and internationally ranging from grants for schools, health care organizations, international service organizations, at risk youth agencies, technical organizations, mental health, higher education, child care centers, low income housing, national security, disaster management grants for public service such as fire departments/police department, social service agencies, alternative therapies, and other types of human service agencies, alternative energy, workforce development, environmental organizations, cities, and many others. Program Development with input from the leaders of the organization. 3. Created high-quality proposals, narratives, and supporting documents following all policies of funding opportunity. 4. Created a fundraising and a grant plan. 5. Completed grant reports at the end of grant periods.6. Assisted nonprofits in managing their grants ensuring that they abide by the rules of the grant and stick to the budget. 7. Held grant writing classes for nonprofit groups ranging from 5 to 80. 8. Depending upon the organization may have done, other fundraising services include: Major Gifts, Very Important People(VIPs), and Capital Campaigns.

Hollywood, Ca

American Home Recycling is a real estate company aimed at ending the affordable housing crisis. My tasks included:1. Managing projects in housing development including locating land using sites such as Zillow, Redfin, and many others. Once the land was located, I would ensure that the land would meet our standards. This meant that it was mostly flat, had nearby utilities, had healthy soil and that the city/town allowed modular homes. Once I verified it met these standards, I would notify the housing development team and once they went through their approvals, it would come back to me. This is where my project would begin. I would bring in the modular building team; the architect; the local building team; the solar installation team; the grey water team; the landscaping team; the accountant; and the real estate agent. Those are the people that would make up the initial team. Next, I would create job descriptions, based on this project, for each individual or team. A calendar of when each task had to be completed was created next. This made sure that the entire project stayed on schedule. My next task was to work with the accountant to create a master budget and then an individual budget for each individual/team in order to keep the entire team on budget. To ensure nothing fell through the cracks, in the first two weeks we had a meeting every day, it was each team/individual saying what has been accomplished, and leaders providing information on the project. There was also a question-and-answer portion of the meeting. At the end of each meeting, they had the opportunity to speak privately with the leadership team. As for my writing tasks, they included writing a monthly newsletter, 4-5 articles a month, the annual review, 2-3 white papers a year, and web content.2. Answered calls remotely three days a week. Calls included questions about home ownership, models available, timeline for building a home, energy efficiency, sending a new home package.

Worldwide

* Wrote Articles, Blogs, E-Books, Content, Guides, and Manuals. * Wrote Grants that were Awarded Money to Fund Projects Worldwide. * SEO On and OFF Site Using over 30 Tactics. * Helped Entrepreneurs Who Had Sales Dropping How to Get Back Their Businesses Before it was to late. * Instructed those who were starting E-commerce Businesses how to sell on Amazon, Ebay, Etsy, and several other online platforms. * Wrote grants for a wide variety of organizations ranging from education, healthcare, housing, social services, at-risk youth, gaming, travel. Wrote articles of education, day spas, healthcare, travel, careers and much more. * Instructed groups of 5 to 50 the fine art of writing grants. Class titles were: Grant Writing 101, Advanced Foundation Grant Writing, Advanced Government Grant Writing, Writing a Letter of Inquiry, Contract Writing, Erate Founding, Responding to RFP, Responding to an RFA. * Taught Content Writing, Business Writing Online and to small groups. *Created Web content on every topic imaginable: Wrote over 25,000 articles online on a wide variety of subjects.

Greater Los Angeles Area

Online Marketing, Digital Marketing, Digital Advertising, High Revenue Digital Marketing. Responsible for sales increase from $350,000-$1,200,000

Virginia Beach, Va

*Hired Marketing Staff Members*Trained all New Hires*Technical Writing for Company including Policy & Procedures, Human Resource Documents, Training Materials, Marketing Guides. *Floor Supervision 2 Hours a Day*Strategic Marketing, Managed many different campaigns. Supervised a staff of over 100, reported directly to the CEO. Trained staff members on SEO, SEM, SMM, and PPC, Copywriting, Creating White Papers, and Editing other Writer's Work. Trained Staff Members, Held Staff Orientation, Copywriting, White Papers, and Editing. The team wrote on many industries including: Industry, Manufacturing, Healthcare, Education, Higher Education, Engines, Starting a Business, Fashion, Social Media Marketing, Mental Health, Personnal Financial Planning, Parenting, Relationships, Pregnancy, Diets, Food, Travel, Gardening, Beauty, Skincare, Makeup, Haircare, Spirituality, Small Businesses, Global Warming, Alternative Energy, Affordable Housing, Interior Decorating, and Information about your city. This is just a partial list of the topics that we have written on. We write reviews, website content, SEO articles, proposals, research articles, and press releases.

Troy, Ny

Led my team in the creation of sponsorship packages. Public Speaking to announce new programs that the hospital had created. Research before presenting new opportunities of grants to the CEO and Board of Directors. Raised over $15 Million during the time I was there. Created Brand positioning that will raise donations. With the team organize and hold special events such as walks, the annual ball, dinners, email campaign, bricks and mortar campaign and other special events each year. Supervised the grant writers, content writers, mail team, email, special events team, telemarketers, creative team, and marketing team. Also supervised the communications team to ensure that the same message was delivered across the board. We also raised above and beyond our goal.

Certificate, Marketing Analytics

Certificate, Online Marketing, 4.0

Certificate, Content Marketing

Certificate, Grant Writing, 4.0

Grant Writing Academy Graduate Level

Certificate, Seo, 4.0

Master'S Degree, Non-Profit/Public/Organizational Management

Certificate, Digital Communication And Media/Multimedia, 4.2

Completed 16 Courses in Writing

Diploma, Human Resources Management/Personnel Administration, General, 4.0

Diploma, Customer Service Support/Call Center/Teleservice Operation Management, 4.0

Diploma In Customer Service Training And Management, Customer Service, 4.0

Certificate, Digital Marketing, 4.0

Fundraising And Grant Strategies Certificate, 4.0

Bachelor'S Degree, Professional, Technical, Business, And Scientific Writing