Grant Writers

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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.

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 & 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.

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

Background/Experience:
Some experience writing SBIR grants.

Western Missouri (Kansas City)

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.

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.

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.

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.