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Deborah Ward
Deborah Ward, M.A., CFRE, is a nationally recognized proposal writing consultant for education and nonprofit
clients and has her own business, Ward and Associates. She provides grant development services which include:
project development, prospect research (federal, state, corporate and foundation funding sources); RFP analysis;
writing and editing of proposals; proposal submission; and evaluation of grants programs.
Her clients have included school districts, education service agencies, foundations, higher education institutions,
education, vendors, local governments and nonprofit organizations including a museum, an EMS organization, a hospital,
arts organizations, and a leadership program.
Ms. Ward provides grant seeking and proposal writing workshops across the United States and has presented at local,
state, national and international conferences. She has presented two workshops for government employees in Guam
and in 2004, she taught a "Grantwriting for Teachers" course at Trinity College in Washington D.C.
Ms. Ward is a contributing monthly columnist for eSchool News and a former columnist for Education Grants Alert.
Her articles have appeared in Pro Principal, Board and Administrator, School Planning and Management,
Technology and Learning, T.H.E. Funding Source, and Principal. She has been interviewed for several
publications including Education Week and Advancing Philanthropy. In 2005, her book,
"Writing Grant Proposals that Win, 3rd Edition" was published by Jones and Bartlett Publishers.
She is currently working on her second book about grants management with an expected publication date this March.
She has over twenty years of experience in the development field in the areas of grantsmanship,
individual donor and corporate solicitations, direct mail appeals, special events and annual funds.
In 1999, she received her Master of Arts degree in philanthropy and development from Saint Mary's University of Minnesota.
She has the Certified Fund Raising Executive designation from the Association of Fund Raising Professionals
and participated in their Executive Leadership Institute.
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