Cheryl Kester Thomas
Federal Grants Specialist | GPA Approved Trainer | Evaluator | Author and Speaker
- Role
- Senior Grants Strategist at Dig Deep Research
- Location
- Fayetteville, AR, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Cheryl Kester Thomas
An experienced grants professional who has raised more than $235 million in federal, state and foundation grants and contracts. In fact, I (with my co-author) literally wrote the book on winning Federal grants.(Writing to Win Federal Grants and its accompanying Workbook.)Specializing in Federal grants, especially for higher education and healthcare, allows me to develop strong expertise over multiple competitions. Want another proposal mill to assign a random freelance writer to your project? Can\'t help you. Would you like a partner invested in your long-term success? Who will enable you to be strategic rather than reactive? Who can advise you on how to craft an application that will get funded? Give me a call.Or you\'ve just gotten that big scary grant and now you need to find an external evaluator? One who understands your program and what you\'re trying to accomplish? I\'m there for you.Most of my clients and I have been collaborating for success over many years. Developing partnerships. Exploring new opportunities. There\'s a reason for that. Finally, I\'m a teacher. My workshops, webinars, conference sessions, and speeches excite and engage others and empower them to develop their own grant skills. It\'s not everyone who can take a dry and scary topic and chop it into manageable bits, leaven it with some humor, and create something that turns out to not be so scary after all. Specialties: Grants, public speaking and training, federal grants, author, project design and program evaluations.
Experience
Senior Grants Strategist
Jan 2020 — Present
Consult with clients regularly on executing grant pursuit plans, advising on strategy, relationship-building, and reporting. Collaborate with clients, engineers and other responsible parties to prepare or advise on compelling funding proposals.
Education
John Brown University
BA, English
1987 — 1991
Georgetown University
MA, English
1992 — 1994
Skills
- Grant Review
- Training
- Policy
- Budgets
- Proposal Creation
- Community Outreach
- Public Speaking
- Grants
- Prospect Research
- Nonprofit Management
- Leadership Development
- Curriculum Development
- Event Planning
- Press Releases
- Strategic Planning
- Program Development
- Blogging
- Stewardship
- Strategic Communications
- Proposal Writing
- Board Development
- Nonprofit Organizations
- Non-Profits
- Data Analysis
- Marketing Communications
- Adult Education
- Editing
- Grant Application
- Social Services
- Higher Education
- Copywriting
- Copy Editing
- Marketing
- Fundraising
- Nonprofits
- Proofreading
- Conference Speaking
- Newsletters
- Leadership
- Grant Writing
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