San Francisco, California, United States
Public programs and nonprofit development professional with experience working with education, human services, and arts nonprofits. Proven success in grant writing, building new grants programs, and program development in the arts. I studied literature and religion at Stanford and received an MFA in Fiction from Bowling Green. My writing has appeared or is forthcoming in The Gettysburg Review, Southampton Review, Epiphany, Notre Dame Review, and a few others. I've been a writer-in-residence at MASS MoCA, the Wellstone Center in the Redwoods, Sarasvati, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and elsewhere. I'm currently at work on a few novels about ghosts and garden hermits.
Head up all communications, grants writing and management, and the website. Collaborate on public programs development and management, corporate sponsorships, and donor cultivation/relations. We're a tiny non-profit, I have my hand in almost everything.
Headed up social media/newsletter communications and marketing, grant writing and grants program development, and producing public programs. Collaborated on corporate and event sponsorships, public programs development and management, and just about everything Litquake does.
I'm a fiction writer with a handful of published short stories. Currently at work on a novel. Fiction and other prose at grahamtoddwrites.com
I provide grant and development consulting services for nonprofits with a specialty in reinvigorating or building new grant and donor communications programs in the areas of the arts, education, mental health, racial equity, and wildfire mitigation. Services include: Development of annual grant seeking plans Prospective grant research Researching/writing/editing LOIs, proposals, templates Post-award grants management Data collection and evaluation Development of org and program-specific budgets Program development Donor communications and relations
Taught undergraduate composition and creative writing courses, hosted and managed weekly reading series
Researched and wrote tech-oriented news and opinion articles which were distributed to major publications Wrote articles designed to spread public awareness about Toptal’s services and maximize Toptal’s SEO impact Copyedited and fact checked Outreach team materials and fellow writers’ articles Published articles in Huffington Post, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, Inc., Social Media Today, and more