Grant writers

Central Missouri (Columbia)

Name: Cynthia Haydon
Email: chaydon@mchsi.com
Phone: (573) 441-1036

Background/Experience:
For the past 5 years, I have worked as a freelance grant writer. I work primarily with Mary Licklider and Susan Hazelwood in the MU Office of Research, and am employed as often as their workload requires. I assist, as needed, in the preparation of external grant proposals for a variety of schools and colleges at MU, including, School of Medicine, College of Engineering, College of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources, and College of Arts and Science. Depending on the project, I may serve as head grant writer for a proposal, or as secondary grant writer.

My duties can include acting as principle contact with the faculty investigators, developing a timetable for work, division work, outlining and editing proposal text, developing budget, preparing supporting documents, etc. Previously I worked full-time as a grant writer in the MU School of Medicine. There, I Supported and encouraged faculty in the School of Medicine with the process of identifying, pursuing and securing extramural research funding. I managed the preparation of external grant proposals, particularly large interdisciplinary proposals that lead to integrated research.

While I have worked on many different kinds of grant proposals, I haven't submitted an SBIR grant. I did, however work with a faculty member in the School of Nursing during the planning stages of a proposal using the NIH SBIR mechanism.

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Name: Bob Glidewell
Email: GlidewellB@missouri.edu
Phone: (573) 882-7331

Background/Experience:
Bob Glidewell is a grant writer for the Robert J. Trulaske, Sr. College of Business at the University of Missouri. He works closely with the Associate Dean for Graduate Research and Studies, college faculty, the Missouri Training Institute, and the Missouri Innovation Center to research possible program sponsors and to develop grant proposals. This includes interdisciplinary partnerships with other schools and colleges within the MU campus, especially in projects that seek Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) or Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) funding from federal and state agencies. In 2008, at the invitation of the National Science Foundation, he applied for and was accepted as a potential SBIR/STTR Phase l and ll proposal reviewer.

Bob began his grant writing career in 1996 and has assisted various non-profit organizations in Texas, Oklahoma and Missouri. He is a member of the Association of Grant Writing Professionals. His publications include newspaper, magazine, and journal articles as well as training manuals for both corporate and government clients. He serves as the co-editor for a small book publishing firm in New Mexico and as a member of its board. Bob has a BA in political science from Southwest Oklahoma State University and a BA in English-creative writing non-fiction from the University of Missouri-Columbia.

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Name: Bryce Oates
Email: bryce_crispies@yahoo.com
Phone: (573) 639-9117

Background/Experience:
Some experience writing SBIR grants.

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Name: Mindy Duncan
Email: mindy@treweb.org
Phone: (573) 489-7119

Background/Experience:
Mindy Duncan is the founder and president of Tre, LLC in Columbia, Missouri. Tre provides a variety of services including research and grant writing for nonprofits and small businesses. She has a broad range of grant writing experience including: private foundations, corporate funders, and local, state, and federal government applications.

Prior to opening Tre in 2007, Ms. Duncan was the Executive Director of Rain-Central Missouri, an HIV service organization. During her tenure there she successfully funded more than three million dollars in grant application.

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Western Missouri (Kansas City/Warrensburg)

Name: Julie Assel, Assel Consulting
Email: jassel03@yahoo.com
Phone: (913) 908-4150

Background/Experience:
Julie Assel is owner of Assel Consulting and a Grant Writer for Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies, in Kansas City, Missouri.

Julie Assel started Assel Consulting after teaching in rural Wisconsin and the inner city in Kansas and Missouri. There she realized just how much schools struggled to find money for basic program much less additional money for"non core" programs like music, physical education, and technology. As a grant writer and the grant manager for the Kansas City, Missouri School District, she had the opportunity to see how small grants could affect individual classrooms in a big way and how big grants, if not managed well, only made people wonder where all the money went. She has a passion for writing grants to help classrooms, schools, curriculum departments, districts and higher education institutions improve public education.

As a grant writer for Cardiovascular Imaging Technologies, she writes grants for the National Institute of Health for Parent Program RO1 grants and Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) grants as well as proposals to the medical imaging community. These grants using go to the National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, or the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

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Name: Suman Saripalli
Email: ssk320@yahoo.com
Phone: (785) 979-1116

Background/Experience:
Suman Saripalli is a grant writer focused on SBIR and STTRs. He has written almost 150 SBIR and STTR proposals since 1992, and has raised more than $17 million for several small businesses through these programs, from the Department of Defense, NASA, the National Science Foundation, NIH, the Department of Energy, and the Department of Education. He has won the SBA's Tibbetts Award twice for excellence in the SBIR program.

He conducts several SBIR workshops through the University of Missouri, and the Kauffman Foundation's Fast Trac Tech program. He holds a Bachelors degree in Mechanical Engineering, and an MBA. He has mentored several companies through the SBIR proposal process, and also provides post-award advice in the areas of federal grant and contract accounting, rules interpretation, commercialization strategy, etc. He is available as a consultant to firms that are seeking help with SBIR proposals and projects.

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Name: Tom Chapman
Email: tomc@creativebiotech.com
Phone: (913) 385-0997

Background/Experience:
Tom Chapman is the owner of Creative Biotech, a technical writing and documentation firm located in the Kansas City Metropolitan area.

Founded in 2003, the firm engages the talents of over 80 freelance grant, technical and medical writers supporting the needs of organizations working in biotechnology, drug and device development, information technology, venture capital / private equity investment and more.

Our 25 currently active grant proposal writers, some local, others regional and national, have been responsible for over $2 billion in awards from Federal, State and Local agencies.

We also provide software documentation and development, web analytics, marketing and development, and traditional and new media production services.

More of Tom's background and activities can be found on his "LinkedIn" posting, and you are invited to visit the Web site at www.creativebiotech.com.

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Name: Thomas Stroud
Email: twstroud@affinex.biz
Phone: (913) 685-8116

Background/Experience:
Mr. Stroud has spent the last ten years involved in hybrid structural composite, industrial bi-product / agricultural fertilizer and medical device startups. Management duties have included financial, marketing and economic analysis along with procurement, logistics and general project oversight. Raising funds included successfully securing DARPA and CEC (California Energy Commission) Grants as well as soliciting private equity. Most recently, he secured land and rezoning and tax, economic development and railroad incentives to develop a fertilizer terminal in Hesston, Kansas. He has prepared and given presentations before customers, various regulatory bodies and investor groups. This includes successfully defending against claims by OSHA and the IRS.

Mr. Stroud has a BA from Occidental College and an MCRP from Harvard. He has had articles on economics, foreign trade and political issues published in the Kansas City Star. He applies real world experience to grant writing and business planning.

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Name: Chanda K. Zimmerman
Email: ckzmoon@iland.net
Phone: (660) 747-2915

Background/Experience:
Chanda K. Zimmerman has more than twenty years experience as a professional writer, editor and communications consultant. She works across a broad spectrum of projects, including business and technical writing, marketing communications, and scripts for video and interactive media. In addition to her writing and editing services, Ms. Zimmerman also provides strategic consulting on communication projects. For clients needing additional services, her company provides formatting and production of books and booklets, as well as designing and producing interactive programs and MS PowerPoint® presentations.

Since opening her own business in 1995, Ms. Zimmerman has worked on proposals, reports, presentations, articles, newsletters, brochures, press releases, and scripts for clients in environmental engineering, transportation, municipal infrastructure, health care information technology and other fields. She has also done consulting for the Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies and Technology at the University of Central Missouri, as well as presenting seminars on small business marketing issues. Prior to 1995, she held staff positions, serving as speech writer to the governor of New Mexico, and senior staff writer at the Michigan Senate. In both offices, she wrote on a wide variety of topics including business and industry issues, taxes, agriculture, technology transfer, health care, education and tort reform.

Earlier in her career, she worked as an advertising copywriter for an international ad agency handling Chrysler Corporation, and as a documentary film writer. Ms. Zimmerman earned her MFA in Professional Writing from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and her BA from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas. She has taught communication courses as an adjunct at local colleges for twelve years. For more information, please visit her Web site at: www.questingmoon.com and click on "Questing Moon Communications."

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Northeast Missouri (Hannibal)

Name: Amy Meyer
Email: amyleahmeyer@yahoo.com
Phone: (573) 470-1494

Background/Experience:
Amy Meyer is the Administrator of the Family Farm Opportunity Center, a cooperative and business development resource. She also serves part-time as the communications and outreach coordinator for Missouri Farmers Union, and has served in that capacity since January of 2005.

Amy was raised on a diversified family farm in Bowling Green, Missouri and continues to operate an Angus and commercial cow-calf operation with her brother. She also assists her husband in managing his families' diversified crop and livestock farm near Hannibal, Missouri. She is a graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia with a bachelor's degree in Agribusiness Management and previously served as the Director of Membership and Education for Rocky Mountain Farmers Union in Denver, Colorado.

She has significant experience in grant administration and preparation particularly in agriculture, youth programs and rural development. She has managed grants from both federal/state government entities and private foundations. She currently resides in Northeast Missouri, and is interested in assisting in any grant administration clients and/or preparation.

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Eastern Missouri (St. Louis area)

Name: Edward Bayham
Email: elb@explorbioventures.com
Phone: (314) 452-2004

Background/Experience:
Edward Bayham is a seasoned professional with extensive domestic and international marketing and business development experience in pharmaceuticals, biologics, diagnostics and medical devices. He has earned an MS in Biomedical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from the University of Chicago. Since founding EXPLOR Bioventures, LLC in 1998, he has served as a consultant or executive for several life science companies.

His grant-writing experience began in 2000 with the development of a successful Phase II SBIR submission while serving as the Vice President of Business Development for ISTO Technologies, Inc. (located in Olivette, Missouri) which resulted in a $750,000 grant award for Neocartilage Chondral Allograft Development. He also participated in the development of a proposal to the NIST Advanced Technology Program that resulted in a three-year, $2.1 million award for the development of an osteochondral grant for joint repair. More recently, he directed the development and submission of a Phase I SBIR proposal for treatment of atrial fibrillation, and the commercialization plan for a FastTrack Phase I/II for an Alzheimer’s disease therapeutic.

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Southern Missouri (Rolla)

Name: Kenneth W. Reynolds
Email: kreynolds@missourienterprise.org
Phone: (800) 956-2682

Background/Experience:
Ken Reynolds has more than 33 years of experience in business development and proposal writing, having been successful in securing contracts and grants from DoD (USA, USN, SOCOM, DARPA, USAF, MDA), USDA, USCG, NIST, DoL, NSF, DOT, DHS, EDA, and other government and private entities. Contracts and grants ranged from R&D, commercialization, manufacturing, assistance, support, and technology transfer. While at Lockheed, he implemented Lean Manufacturing for an existing operation and was instrumental in the start-up of three new divisions at new sites.

Ken joined Missouri Enterprise in 2001 after operating his own government contracting consulting firm in the defense industry. Prior to that, he held responsible management positions with prime defense contractors for 23 years, working in proposals, contract management, program management, technology transfer, facility start-up, production planning and scheduling, research and development.

Ken graduated with a Bachelor of Engineering degree in Marine Engineering
and a minor in Computer Science from the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and
holds an unlimited Marine Engineer license. He has attended the Masters
Institute in Government Contract Costs; the Masters Institute in Government
Contracting; has been a Facility Security Officer; and a member of the
NAVSEA-Industry SWATH T-AGOS Joint Design Team and the Center for
Excellency in Composite Manufacturing Technology.  He was designated an
expert witness in contract and scheduling for the U.S. Court of Federal
Claims and has served as a National Science Foundation SBIR proposal review
panelist.

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Other locations

Name: Kay C. Peck, CFRE
Email: FlyingPigs@aol.com
Phone: (505) 454-0060

Background/Experience:
Kay C. Peck, CFRE, has more than 18 years experience as a fundraiser and program development professional serving nonprofit organizations. During her tenure as a director on the Association of Fundraising Professionals International Board of Directors (2004-2007), she was a key decision maker for programs serving 27,000 fundraising professionals world-wide. As the AFP International Diversity Chair in 2004-2005, she led the way to creating initiatives such as AFP's Diverse Communities Project based on the premise that individuals need not give up affinity with their own diverse communities in order to be part of a mainstream organization.

As a fundraiser, she has raised nearly $20 million for a wide variety or organizations, and as a program development consultant she has been key to creating, implementing and sustaining a wide range of programs including but not limited to: community organizing for farm laborers; supporting region-wide health and educational initiatives; providing training for Croatian non-governmental organizations striving to transition from public to private support; providing guidance in nurturing economic and social development for rural communities and more.