FarSun Communications: Grant
Writing Services
Ron S.
Nolan, PH.D.
FarSun Communication Services
222 Santa Avenue, No. 11
Aptos, CA 95003
(831) 688-3158
nolan@farsun.com
Greetings:
I have a great deal of experience in grant writing for education,
community, environmental and health-related projects.
If you are unable to find the
right local person for your effort, you
might consider contracting some of the tasks in your scope of work to
me. I serve my clients across the country and world by
telecommuting.
Utilizing me as consultant will also likely save you precious
development funds.
Despite the economic
challenges, not-for-profit
organizations can increase their budgets by increasing their grant
applications
in the short term. 2009 is a good year to work with a
professional grant writer
to increase your success rate and take advantage of capital that is
still
available in the foundation and federal funding agencies.
Reasons
to contract out your grant writing:
1. In these tough economic
times for organizations and
agencies, it makes more sense now than ever cost-wise to contract out
grant
work rather than to support a full grant writing staff--due to savings
in
insurance, workers comp, retirement and health
benefits, etc.
2.
There are also savings in efficiency in that a contractor is
on-target
with a fixed price and because funding prospects are well defined in
advance.
3. There are many RFPs out in education, energy and
technology
at the
DE, DHS, NEA and NSF that I can bring to the attention of school
districts,
colleges and universities and I have a great deal of experience in
researching and identifying funding sources.
4. Since I telecommute, I provide all of the office overhead and
necessary equipment and software needed to develop and assist you in
electronically filing your query letter and grant application. I
can also cost-effectively provide your grant tracking and reporting
requirements and I am able to communicate in Spanish to some degree
since my father was a Spanish professor and I attended hight school in
Cali, Colombia.
5. For large-scale projects or demanding deadlines, I have
professional associates ready to assist your project.
6. I am also ready and willing to assist your agency grant writer
as needed.
I have many years of experience in grant
writing. Here is a brief
summary. Please contact me if you would like a complete resume or
to discuss rates. Please note that I do not work on a commission
basis.
Ron
S. Nolan, Ph.D.
Government
Grant Writing Experience
My experience in
developing proposals spans several decades
beginning with my graduate studies at Scripps Institution of
Oceanography. I have developed proposals
for my own
research, the University of California, Santa Cruz; the Development
Consulting
Network and Hatchuel Tabernick and Associates. Recent
clients include the Oakland Unified School
District, Alameda
County and Contra Costa County among others. I
am also familiar with federal procurement
procedures and am currently
in the formative stages for preparing concept inquiries in the field of
solar
energy technology to the Department of Homeland Security and CalCEF.
Education
Grant Writing Experience/Courseware Development
Instructional
Courseware Development
- Author,
Developer: Computer Music:
an Interactive Documentary (CD-ROM)
- Author,
Developer: Coral Kingdom (CD-ROM)
- Author,
Developer: Mission 2,000 (CD-ROM)
- Author,
Developer: Task Force Environmental
Education Kit (2 CD-ROMs)
- Author;
Developer: ECOSYSTEMS (college textbook)
- Nolan
has had a long involvement in efforts to educate young people as well
as adults in environmental conservation. One
of the projects is the Task Force Environmental Education Kit. This combination of instructional television
series, interactive software and web discussion forum encourages
students to understand the issues related to declining salmon fisheries. It challenges students to develop skills in
the resolution of environmental conflict by studying a wide range of
differing viewpoints and then to develop their own management plan. This was funded in part by a grant from the
National Science Foundation in 1994.
- Developer
of Salmon Preservation: a Case Study in the Resolution of Environmental
Conflict, a web site with a wide range of resources,
fishery data and open forum.
- Developer
of Coral Kingdom, instructional software about the biology and ecology
of coral reefs, Digital Studios, 1993.
- Developer
of Ecosystems (upper division level college textbook on CD-ROM),
Digital Studios, 2000.
Information
Technology Experience.
I have a keen interest in
technology and have twice served
as a research associate in computer engineering at UC, Santa Cruz
Environmental
Experience
I have designed and
conducted numerous environmental studies
and impact statements; produced a national educational TV series on
salmon
populations and authored a college textbook on ecosystems.
Disaster
Preparedness
I am working with Innergy
Power in San Diego to explore
concepts for solar-powered communications modules with an eye to
responding to
the recent DHS Broad Agency Announement (BAA) 08-01.
I also sell emergency preparedness kits on my
website at www.solarmetro.com.
Availability
and Capability
I am
available as soon as needed. Nearly all of
my grant writing services have been provided via
telecommuting and I am comfortable with that arrangement.
I am also willing to work on a contract
basis or at an hourly rate. I have a
state-of-the-art Dell workstation with two large flat screens. For image editing I have GIMP and Thunderbird
for e-mail; MS Office 2007 for writing and data analysis.
I have Comcast digital voice for unlimited
long distance and high speed internet (Comcast Blast @ 16 Mbps). McAfee provides the firewall.
I can be reached at
Ron S. Nolan, PH.D.
222 Santa Avenue, No. 11
Aptos, CA 95003
(831) 688-3158
nolan@farsun.com
.
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