Proposal Writing: Effective Grantsmanship for Funding

About Cynthia A. ScheinbergSoraya M. ColeyYulia A. Levites Strekalova

Soraya M. Coley is president of Cal Poly Pomona University. Prior to that she served as provost and vice president for academic affairs at California State University Bakersfield and at Alliant International University as well as dean of the College of Human Development and Community Service at California State University Fullerton. She has nearly 30 years of higher education experience and has worked with nonprofits community-based and civic organizations on program design evaluation and grant writing. Cynthia A. Scheinberg is a psychologist (inactive) with 23 years of senior administrative leadership in the nonprofit sector. She has successfully designed written obtained and implemented federal state foundation and local government funding. In addition she taught program design and proposal writing for 18 years at California State University Fullerton in the Human Services Department. Now happily retired she consults on program design grant writing and compliance issues and in her free time enjoys grandchildren and playing clarinet in two community bands. Yulia A. Levites Strekalova is Director of Educational Development and Evaluation and Assistant Research Professor at the University of Florida Clinical Translational Science Institute and a grant writing coach for the National Research Mentoring Network. She is also a science and health communication scholar and actively participates in large federally funded projects as a program developer and evaluator. She has over 15 years of research administration experience and has been teaching grant writing in the U.S. and internationally since 2014.