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Cynthia M. Adams
President and CEO
cadams@grantstation.com
- Advisory Board, Green Nonprofits, 2007 - present
- Honorary Advisory Board, Northern Alaska Environmental Center, 2006 - present
- Board member, ePhilanthropy Foundation, 2003 - 2006
- Board member for the Alaska Wilderness League, 2000 - 2002
- Served as a Trustee of the Alaska Conservation Foundation for ten years
- Founder (1991) and President of the Alaska Funding Exchange
- Board member for the State of Alaska, Department of Commerce and Economic Development, Small Business Revolving Loan Fund, 1989 - present
- Executive Director, Interior Economic Development Council, 1988 - 1991
- Director of Economic Development, Fairbanks North Star Borough, 1986 - 1991
Cindy enjoys hiking, gardening, and "movie night" with friends. Her husband, John Luther Adams is a composer, so she also listens to a lot of 21st Century music.
Julie Kaufman
Research Director
jkaufman@grantstation.com
Julie Kaufman has ten years' experience in fundraising consulting, during which she specialized in funding research and funding strategy development for nonprofit organizations. As Research Director, Julie spends countless hours with her team of researchers poring through publications, delving deeply into online philanthropic resources, and talking directly with grantmakers to develop and maintain thousands of national and international funder profiles. Her exhaustive research process, discerning attention to detail, and expansive knowledge of grantmakers affords GrantStation Members with the most timely and comprehensive funder information. Julie holds an M.A. in Community Psychology from the University of Alaska Fairbanks.
Contact Julie if you represent a grantmaker and would like to review your organization's existing profile in our database or would like to discuss our addition of your organization to the database. Organizations that wish to post announcements for upcoming grant deadlines on the GrantStation website should also contact Julie.
Angel
Knapp
Vice President of Sales
aknapp@grantstation.com
Angel has been with GrantStation for nearly seven years (and we don't know what she'll do if she gets an itch!), serving originally as Membership Coordinator. In 2006, Angel was promoted to Vice President of Sales and continues to oversee our customer service, work with our Co-Brand partners, and develop sales. Angel brings over thirty years of experience working with the public in a variety of capacities and serves on several nonprofit boards. She and her husband Mark also founded The Cutting Edge in 2000, a local machine shop and blade sharpening service. In her spare time, Angel helps coordinate annual fundraising events in the community.
Contact Angel if your organization is interested in distributing the GrantStation Insider (our weekly e-newsletter) to your e-list. If your organization is already partnering with GrantStation and you have additional questions or are interested in learning more about our MVP or GS-TAP programs, you can also contact Angel.
Sara Kennedy
Member Services Manager
sara@grantstation.com
Sara has been with GrantStation since February of 2007 and brings with her the experience of executive director for a local nonprofit. She has over ten years of research experience with the Federal Government and in her spare time she plumbs the depths of quantum physics studies. Sara is also an experienced Lighter Than Air (read: hot-air balloon) pilot. She is held together with duck tape and staples, stitches, and stainless steel ring clips.
Contact Sara if you're interested in purchasing a GrantStation Membership, if you have questions regarding your existing Membership, including misplaced usernames and passwords, or if you would like to schedule a personal tour of the website. Members can also address any billing questions to Sara.
Joel Terwilliger
Federal & State Research Specialist
joel@grantstation.com
Joel comes to GrantStation with a diverse kaleidoscope of design consulting, sales, editorial, internal auditing, financial planning, retail, business management, and academic research experience. He holds an Associate of Arts from Rich Mountain Community College and a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and English from the University of Central Arkansas. Joel continues to be an avid poet and a fledgling novelist with related research underway. He enjoys both partaking of and singing classical music, bicycling, meditation, and classical literature.
Contact Joel if you represent a grantmaker and would like to review your profile in our database, if you would like us to include an announcement for an upcoming grant deadline on GrantStation's website, if you have questions about state funding opportunities, if you would like to include any updates from your state in our notes, or if you encounter any problems with the content on our site.
Ashlyn Simmons
International Research Specialist
ashlyn@grantstation.com
Ashlyn brings a range of experience and skills to GrantStation, including child development/early intervention, teaching and tutoring, customer service, research, writing, and editing. In addition to her work at GrantStation, she is pursuing a M.A. in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. Her other interests include travel, reading, hiking, cooking, and eating.
Contact Ashlyn if you represent an international grantmaker and would like to review your profile in our database, or if you are interested in having your grant deadline featured in the GrantStation International Insider.
Jeremy Smith
Communications and Technology Director
jeremy@grantstation.com
After six years as an announcer and Program Director at a local NPR station, Jeremy began a business that specialized in "bringing tech support to you." He was initiated into the world of GrantStation through that experiment and got on board in July of 2008.
Jeremy not only handles internal tech issues, updating and developing new looks and features for the website, and explaining the latest web doo-hickey to the office, but spends his time maintaining and developing media for the website. During calmer moments, he writes and distributes press releases that extoll the virtues of GrantStation... and since there are quite a few, he has job security.
Carol Norton
Accounts Manager
carol@grantstation.com
Carol moved to Alaska in 1967 from the East Coast, and has spent all but 10 of the intervening years in Fairbanks. After retiring from ten years with the School District
in Barrow, Alaska, and various other employment, Carol
made the mistake decision to take some accounting classes
to help with her husband's retirement business. Somehow,
she was sucked into working as a bookkeeper for a local
nonprofit for five years.
GrantStation latched on to Carol in 2006. After a period of working simultaneously for two seperate organizations as the bookeeper, she has now settled into her hectic role as our (and nobody else's) accountant.
Don Kiely
Technology & Programming Consultant
donkiely@grantstation.com
Don was a Christmas gift to GrantStation in 2005, when he began doing the programming and database management required to support the content on GrantStation.com. He spends most of his time scrambling to figure out how to implement the creative ideas of the brains behind GrantStation to enhance the value to our members.
In his free time, Don writes for technology trade journals, speaks at industry conferences, and travels Alaska by dog sled, skis, whitewater canoe and kayak, and foot. He is president of The Second Chance League, a nonprofit sleddog rescue group in Fairbanks, and is on the board of two other nonprofits, Fairbanks Paddlers and the Alaska Skijor and Pulk Association.
Staff cartoons by R.Mata.