As a communications consultant, I currently assist clients with nonprofit, business, and art projects, including grant proposals. My analytical skills and creative talents make me a great match for turning plans and ideas into strategic, effective proposals and grants. I have researched and written successful grant proposals and reports in four of my nonprofit jobs; these encompassed environmental, healthcare, criminal justice, and financial empowerment missions, but I am a generalist who adapts easily to diverse projects. In fact, I enjoy the challenge of translating concepts for a variety of audiences: • At the Pretrial Justice Institute (PJI), a national criminal justice advocacy organization where I worked from January 2013 through December 2014, I wrote an ambitious demonstration sites proposal and ongoing reports for the Department of Justice; foundation proposals and reports for general support and communications projects; and a statement of qualifications and full proposal for new program funding from the MacArthur Foundation. I have also been employed as a Grants Manager for two foundations – the Solidago Foundation and the Stella and Charles Guttman Foundation – which has given