Administration and Staff

by Cynthia M. Adams, CEO, GrantStation.com

You can use the skills and experiences of your administration and staff to help build strong grant requests, just as you used the board of directors information (see previous article).

You want to create short bios focused on key staff members' skills and qualifications that you can cut and paste into grant requests as needed.

Here’s an example of a staff bio for a program director at the town’s food bank:

Bob Adams has been Director of Food Acquisition and Delivery for five years. Bob originally came to Central City’s Food Bank as a Vista volunteer in 2018. In early 2022, Bob developed an online food acquisition program that more than tripled the amount of food donated each month to Central City’s Food Bank. Due to Bob’s innovation, Central City Food Bank received the 2023 Nonprofit Organization of the Year award from our...