Getting Funded: The Complete Guide to Writing Grant Proposals

Renee Bourque, MEd, Grant Professional Certified (GPC), comes from a long line of educators. She graduated summa cum laude with a Master’s Degree in Education, Curriculum and Instruction from Seattle University. This academic legacy continued in her role as faculty, raising millions of dollars through classes in the top-ranked Nonprofit Management Program of the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs and Governance, Graduate School, University of Washington where she taught PhD and master’s students grant writing and philanthropy from across the graduate school, including medicine, library science, social work, international affairs, and business. In the University of Washington Fundraising Management certificate program, Renee taught grant writing, prospect research, and finance to students working toward careers in fundraising for nonprofits. At the University of Idaho, she taught academic departments how to dovetail their research through the proposal development process and then get research out of labs and into rural development..

Renee is a recognized Grant Writing Subject Matter Expert endorsed by the University of South Florida and the Grant Professional Certification Institute.

Renee is president of Bright Star Grant Consultants, where she serves a world-wide clientele of non-profits, governments, and universities with innovative leadership in highly complex assignments. In finance, she develops diversified and leveraged funding plans that scale with organizational growth. In her role as a strategy expert, she has led local, statewide, and international initiatives related to philanthropy, leadership, human rights, economic development, education, and health care. Renee uses wide-ranging approaches to transform poverty by building resilience with inclusive economy strategies. This work has included multi-country community assessment and development plans in places like the East Africa Hardship Zone, and international scale-ups with Ashoka Fellows. She worked with the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center to reintroduce endangered bison to the wild as featured in National Geographic.