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Lauri Alpern, Grant Writing for Nonprofits
After nearly fourteen years managing university-community partnership programs at the University of Illinois at Chicago's Great Cities Institute, Lauri Alpern joined The Enterprising Kitchen on October 1, 2003 in a newly created position of Co-Executive Director. The Enterprising Kitchen (TEK) is a social enterprise located in Chicago's Uptown neighborhood. It operates a manufacturing company, which produces specialty soaps and soap products as a way to provide job training and support services to women. As Co-Executive Director, she is responsible for guiding TEK to its next level of growth and development through professional management and resource development strategies and programs. Ms. Alpern comes to TEK with more than fifteen years of experience creating and implementing community, economic development and higher education programs and partnerships. She helped found the Great Cities Institute at the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she has served as Associate Director. She worked with faculty and community, civic, government and corporate partners on university-community partnerships in the areas of community development, education, health and public policy. Ms. Alpern is also a founding faculty member and teaches operations management and strategic planning in UIC's Online Certificate Program of Nonprofit Management. She is thrilled to be teaching the Mastering Grant Writing Course. She has been writing grant proposals throughout her career and has experience with funding strategies for all types and sizes of nonprofit organizations. Ms. Alpern joined UIC's Center for Urban Economic Development in 1990 to direct a technology and business development program, which provided services to area manufacturers. From 1986 to 1990, she was Assistant Commissioner for the City of Chicago Department of Economic Development, working on community-based economic development policy and grant making in the administrations of Mayors Harold Washington and Eugene Sawyer. Ms. Alpern holds a Master's of Urban Planning and Policy degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She serves on the boards of two Chicago-based nonprofit organizations the Jewish Council on Urban Affairs and the Women's Self-Employment Project.
Tracey Layng-Awasthi , Grammar Workshop
Grammar is one of those odd things that people feel insecure about, yet we speak grammatically enough everyday to be clearly understood by those around us. However, when we think about grammar while speaking, we suddenly feel unsure about what we are saying. And when we write something, we often feel even more insecure about grammar. Tracey knows this is true because even as an English major in college, she was unsure about using grammar correctly, probably because she was not very good at it, but was expected to be. Well, things have changed and Tracey is now not only quite proficient in grammar, but even enjoys it. Part of the change occurred when she was a Master's student at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. As she wrote her master's thesis, a sociolinguistic study of Indian English, she became interested in the varieties English around the world and in the regional variations right here in the United States. She was fascinated by the differences between spoken and written English in the United States and in the differences among business, casual and academic uses of English. In order to pursue her interests and to improve her teaching, she decided she needed to know more about grammar and so she set about learning it with an eye to understanding how language works and how to communicate the theoretical and pragmatic aspects of grammar to her students.
She brought her interest in grammar and language into the high school and college classes she has taught over the years. These courses include teaching English Literature, Composition, Reading and Grammar to all types of students: high school, college, adult, and native and non-native speakers of English. She has taught ESL at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; English to native speakers at Hononegah Community High School District 207; English Literature and Composition to both native and non-native speakers of English at the University of Illinois at Chicago; and tutored graduate students in English as a Second Language at Carnegie Mellon University.
After teaching for several years, she decided to become a student again and is now a PhD candidate in Rhetoric at the University of Illinois at Chicago . She is most interested in the rhetoric surrounding children in the United States in regard to the perception we, as Americans, have regarding the purpose and place of the child in a liberal democracy.
Brooke Bergan, Book Writing, Characters and Settings, Creative Nonfiction, Creative Writing, Short Forms, Telling Stories
Brooke Bergan has an MA and a PhD in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has taught writing classes and workshops for nearly twenty years in grade schools, high schools, libraries, colleges and universities to widely diverse audiences around the country.
Her publications include three critically acclaimed books of poetry as well as fiction, reviews, essays, translations and a play. She has given numerous readings and performances; appeared on radio, television and video programs about literature; and made presentations at national conferences. Dr. Bergan has also served as a literary editor for several journals, is the founding editor of Persiflage Press and was the director of publications at the University of Illinois at Chicago. She has won awards for both her scholarship and her poetry.
Gary Buslik, Travel Writing
Gary Buslik's work has appeared in many literary and commercial magazines and anthologies, including StoryQuarterly , The Sun , Gettysburg Review , Berkeley Fiction Review , Puerto del Sol , Hayden's Ferry Review , South Carolina Review and others. His fiction has been nominated several times for Pushcart Prizes, and his novel The Missionary's Position is a favorite of the Caribbean tourist crowd.
He writes travel essays and articles for in-flight and tourism magazines, and his work has been featured in the Best Travel Writing annual anthologies. His forthcoming collection A Rotten Person Travels the Caribbean is scheduled for publication in spring 2008 (Travelers' Tales).
He has a PhD in English and teaches literature and creative writing at the University of Illinois at Chicago .
Madonna Carr, Grammar Workshop, Professional Writing (non-native English)
Madonna Carr was born and raised in the Midwest. After living abroad, she returned to Chicago and received her Masters degree in Applied Linguistics from the University of Illinois in 1988.
She has taught adult language learners for the past 14 years both internationally and in the United States. Her teaching includes 3 years as the Director of Language School at the Dominican-American Cultural Institute in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. She has also served on the Executive Board of the Illinois chapter TESOL, the international professional organization of English language teachers.
She is currently the Program Coordinator for Special Courses at the Tutorium in Intensive English at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Since joining TIE in 2000, she has helped to develop the English for International Professionals series which offers courses in specialized areas of language training such as pronunciation modification and professional writing.
Andi Dunn, Technical Writing
Dr. Andi Dunn is a freelance technical communicator with fourteen years of experience in the analysis, design and development of technical information products, including printed and online manuals, intranet sites and online help. Dr. Dunn creates task-oriented performance-support documentation to help people efficiently use products and systems. A former documentation team manager, Dr. Dunn also works with project teams to establish documentation processes that ensure successful transfer of information from technical staff to both technical and non-technical end-users. Dr. Dunn holds a Ph.D in Linguistics from the University of Illinois in Urbana and is an award-winning member of the Society for Technical Communication.
Joan Flanagan, Grant Writing for Nonprofits
Joan Flanagan is the author of two best selling "how-to" books. Her classic The Grass Roots Fundraising Book is the most popular fundraising book in the world. Successful Fundraising, 2nd Edition tells you how to raise big money from corporations, foundations, and individuals by involving celebrities and marketing your "brand" to a corporate sponsor. The Chinese language and Korean language editions were launched in 2003.
The Grantsmanship Center calls her books "the New and Old Testament of Fundraising." Both books are available from any bookseller and on audiocassette from Recordings for the Blind and Dyslexic.
Joan has raised money as the Executive Director of a national organization, and as a consultant for community organizations in low-income communities in five cities. She has worked for two foundations that have made more than $300 million in grants. Currently she serves as fundraising counsel for Historic New Carlisle, the Illinois Campaign for Better Health Care, and the Center for Community Organizing in Slovakia (Centrum Komuitného Organizovania).
Every year, she trains more than 2,500 professional fundraisers and community leaders in the United States, Canada, and Europe. She will be leading a workshop on "Raising Money for Faith-Based Organizations" on March 16, 2004, at the Association of Fundraising Professional's International Conference in Seattle. She also practices what she preaches as a volunteer for her church and Horizon Hospice.
Noah Jenkins, Grant Writing for Nonprofits
Noah Temaner Jenkins is an independent research, planning, and writing consultant to nonprofit groups and universities that are engaged in community development, workforce development, social justice, poverty alleviation, and higher education. Ms. Jenkins has written successful grant proposals for these organizations to fund ex-offender reentry programs, workforce development programs, technology upgrades, advocacy activities, strategic planning, and other activities. Other recent projects include: the Kellogg-funded Pathways to Collaboration project in Chicago's Humboldt Park community, which is a community-based research project that examines grassroots participation in the Humboldt Park Empowerment Partnership and five other partnerships nationally; assisting the Chicago Jobs Council and Women Employed in developing a guide to design programs to bridge low-income individuals to career-path employment; working with a network of local providers in Des Moines, Iowa, to develop an ex-offender reentry service plan; and conducting research interviews for the National Science Foundation-funded Latinos in Higher Education project.
Previously, Ms. Jenkins worked in the Affordable Housing Division of LR Development Company (1999-2001), and from 1994 to 1999 she was project manager for a foundation-funded national evaluation of the federal Empowerment Zone program. Other professional experience includes work with the UIC Center for Economic Development, the United Way of Chicago, the Community Workshop on Economic Development, volunteer ESL tutoring at Erie Neighborhood House, and literacy tutoring at the Chicago Christian Industrial League. Ms. Jenkins currently serves as president of the University of Illinois at Chicago College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs Alumni Association. She holds a Master's of Urban Planning and Policy and a Bachelor's of Arts in Spanish, both from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she graduated Phi Beta Kappa.
Bill Kohler, Business Writing
I was born in Mexico City , grew up in Dallas , Texas , and graduated from the University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill with a degree in International Studies. After selling sporting goods for Spalding Sales Corporation for 4 years in Texas; Georgia/South Carolina; Colorado/Utah/ Wyoming; then San Francisco, I spent 20 years as a commercial real estate broker; first in Silicon Valley, California (where I met and married a girl from Idaho), and then in Orlando, Florida. I specialized in leasing R&D facilities to electronics companies and office space to corporations. In 1994, I accepted a job in Chicago as vice-president of Business Development for a national architectural firm.
In 1996, I "retired" from corporate life, and began teaching. In 1999, I earned a Masters in Applied Linguistics from the University of Illinois- Chicago , and am now on the faculty in the College of Business at UIC. I have taught managerial communications at Roosevelt University, business English in Arthur Andersen's English Immersion Program to their international managers in St. Charles (before their unfortunate demise), and English as a second language in Russia, Japan, and China. I have also worked with local businesses such the Radisson Hotel, Sara Lee, Skill-Bosch Tool, Questek, and the Reproductive Genetics Institute teaching English and presentation skills to their management and staff.
In the summer of 2000, I taught business English as a visiting lecturer at the International University of Japan in their MBA program in Urasa , Japan . I've taught business English at Krasnoyarsk State University in Krasnoyarsk, Russia (aka Siberia) for three summers (2002, 2003, 2004), and was a guest of the Chinese Gov't in Dec 2004 to address business owners about managerial communication problems facing small businesses.
Sheree Kozel-La Ha, Grant Writing for Research
A prolific grant writer herself, Sheree Kozel-La Ha, is the Executive Director of the Homer Township Public Library District, where she has brought in over 1 million dollars in funding over the past several years. She has more than twenty years of experience in the analysis, design and development of successful government, community, library and educational grants.
Ms. Kozel-La Ha has a Masters of Library and Information Science degree from Dominican University. A past Regional Library System Consultant, she has worked with a diverse clientele of 500 multi-type libraries that included academic, public, special and school members. She serves on several boards: Homer Township Chamber of Commerce (2005 President); Illinois Library Employee Benefit Plan (ILEBP); Homer Glen Community and Nature Center Foundation (CNC) and the Goodings Grove Lions Club. As a general grant consultant, she works with agencies, small businesses and nonprofit organizations on grant proposal development and review. Ms. Kozel-La Ha is a graduate of the Illinois State Library Synergy Leadership Initiative. She was awarded the first annual Innovation and Leadership Award from her Regional Library System for grant writing.
Carol LaChapelle, Journal Writing, Writing Matters for Academic Professionals
Carol LaChapelle is a Chicago-based writer, editor, and writing consultant who specializes in teaching writing and journal writing to adults. Over the past 18 years, she has offered her seminars for physicians, therapists, and ministers; K-12 teachers and university professors; scientists, journalists, and lawyers; artists and writers; and the general public. She has read her work publicly at the Ragdale Foundation and The Newberry Library, and regularly makes presentations on writing at national conferences. Her articles and essays appear in magazines, newspapers, professional journals, and anthologies.
For more information, visit Carol's website at www.carollachapelle.com .
Linda Landis Andrews, Business Writing, Proposal Writing
Linda Landis Andrews has learned the importance of persuasion in her careers as a Chicago Tribune reporter, Bank One communications officer, and an award-winning educator at UIC. In these roles she has seen how effectively presenting a case, whether to a reluctant editorial director of special editions, a banking department, or a UIC unit working on a shoestring budget, can bring the resources needed for a project. Formerly the Director of Managerial Communications in the College of Business Administration at UIC she coordinated the business writing curriculum. She consults both individuals and organizations on moving ahead professionally through effective writing of reports, proposals and newsletters. Her book, How To Choose A College Major , is in its second printing. She uses her writing and persuasion skills as a partner in QED Enterprises, a Chicago condominium development company. Analyzing and meeting the needs of an audience through detailed, researched, and carefully written proposals has opened doors for her, a learned skill that she will share in this workshop.
M. David Orr, Technical Writing
I am a technical writer and instructional designer with 23 years experience designing, writing and editing technical and user documentation and training materials for Fortune 1000 companies and software developers. For 16 years I owned Orr & Associates Corporation, a premiere documentation and training company in the Midwest. I personally managed documentation and training projects with budgets up to $3 million. The
company won 17 industry awards for excellence in documentation and instructional design. I also founded and managed the first commercial usability lab in Chicago--The Usability Group. I have previously conducted workshops and courses for IIT, DePaul University, NIU, Purdue University, the Society for Technical Communication (STC) and the Independent Writers of Chicago (IWOC). I currently reside in the mountains near Asheville, North Carolina and provide instructional design and process improvement consulting services to companies all over the country.
Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw, Women's Memoir Writing
Jennifer Langdon-Teclaw has an M.A. in Women's History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. in U.S. Cultural History from the State University of New York-Binghamton. She has taught writing-intensive courses on women's film and literature at SUNY-Binghamton and the University of Illinois at Chicago, where she recently served as the assistant director of the Gender and Women's Studies Program. As a freelance writer, she has published reviews and short articles on literature and film and produced newsletters and other marketing communications for non-profit organizations. She is currently working on a biography of the blacklisted film maker, Adrian Scott, as well as shorter works of creative nonfiction.
Renee Jones-Welch, Grant
Writing for Research, Grant Writing for Nonprofits
Renee Welch recently joined the Ounce of Prevention Fund with more than
10 years of experience in designing curriculum, and managing
professional and continuing education programs. An interest in early
childhood programs, and knowledge of instructional design, adult
learning strategies and training implementation lead her to the Ounce.
She is uniquely qualified in the following areas: professional
development and training, learning technologies and project management.
Dr. Welch served 10 years at the University of Illinois at Chicago,
lastly as Assistant Director and Instructional Designer where she was
responsible for faculty/instructor development and instructional support
in design, development and delivery of technology-enhanced, blended and
online courses and programs, as well as professional and continuing
education.
For the last 5 years, Dr. Welch has served as a peer reviewer for the
U.S. Departments of Education, Commerce and Telecommunications grants
administration offices. As a Development Consultant, she has with social
services agencies, small businesses and nonprofit agencies on proposal
development and review, as well as grants management. She is an adjunct
instructor at UIC and certified Master Online Instructor. Dr. Welch
earned her masters in education and doctorate in educational policy from
the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
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