Grant Writer Mental Health

Tony Stanford

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Brooklyn, NY *1226

*********@*****.*** 973-***-****

Storyteller, listener, thinker, copywriter, editor, collaborator, film and video maker/editor; Generous, funny, always collegial.

Principal, ACS Consulting. More recent clients include LatinoJustice and Wynona's House (see below); and, previously, the Howard Otway and Florence Otway Opportunity Project, a start-up non-profit associated with Theater 80 in New York’s East Village; The Reading Team, an award-winning Harlem-based program that offers intensive literacy training to more than 800 students ages 4 to 14 each year in pre-K and after-school programs; and Celebrate the Children, a school for children with special needs in Denville, NJ. January 2016 to Present

Development Consultant, Professionals for Nonprofits, LatinoJustice/PRLDEF (Puerto Rican Legal Defense and Education Fund). LatinoJustice works to create a more just society by using and challenging the rule of law to secure transformative, equitable and accessible justice, by empowering communities and by fostering leadership through advocacy and education. LatinoJustice/PRLDEF celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022. February 2022 to August 2022 (temporary assignment) Grant Writer, Professionals for Nonprofits, Wynona's House. Wynona's House is the Child Advocacy Center for Essex County, the most populous county in New Jersey. It is a pioneer in the co-located model for child abuse and neglect, overseeing a team that includes prosecutors, child protective services, and medical and mental health experts. Prosecutors and Child Protective Services refer cases to Wynona’s House and the victim, in the co- location model, is only initially interviewed once with just a caregiver and skilled interviewer present. Prosecutors, CPS, and medical and mental health staff view the interview via a secure video feed. February 2021 to August 2021 (temporary assignment). Development Director, Howard Otway and Florence Otway Opportunity Project. HOFOPRO makes grants to performing artists and companies, giving them the opportunity to move to a larger venue and be seen and heard by a wider audience. In 2016-2017, HOFOPRO offered a home to the ground-breaking Negro Ensemble Company, hosting their 50th Anniversary season that concluded with the award-winning A Soldiers Play, the play that launched the careers of Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson in 1981. June 2016 to January 2018.

Director, Corporate and Foundation Relations. Win (Women In Need, Inc.). Win is the largest family shelter provider in New York City. Worked with senior executives and program staff to articulate goals. Cultivated ongoing foundation and corporate relationships and prospect relationships. Wrote proposals and reports for grants up to $550,000 for $70M organization. Contributed web and direct mail copy and helped shape most external communication.

September 2009 – September 2015

Associate Director, Foundation and Corporate Relations. Lighthouse International provides direct service to the vision impaired as well as research, education and advocacy (New York, NY). Cultivated foundation, and corporate prospects; responded to government requests for proposals to total $3.6M of total organization budget of $36M. Wrote proposals and reports.

2008 - 2009

Director of Grants and Research. Alzheimer's Association, New York City Chapter provides education and training, care consultation, and support for persons with Alzheimer’s disease. Contacted and cultivated foundation donors, resulting in over $200,000 in new foundation funding annually. Wrote annual appeal letters and drafted newsletter articles. Conducted extensive prospect research; wrote proposals and reports. Prepared and presented reports to Board of Trustees.

2006 - 2008

Manager of Grants and Research. Selfhelp Community Services provides services to the elderly, including housing, home care, senior centers, NORCs, and Nazi Victim Services (New York, NY). Conducted prospect research, wrote proposals and reports for State and City grants and private foundations for $70M annual budget organization.

2003 - 2006

Director of External Affairs. The Evan B. Donaldson Adoption Institute is a national adoption policy, advocacy and research organization (New York, NY). Worked with executive director to develop programs and refine language for fundraising and all external communication. Wrote foundation and corporate proposals, reports, direct mail copy, and all external communication. Cultivated major donors, foundation boards and officers, and corporate contacts.

2002 –2003

Grants Manager. PCI-Media Impact empowers communities worldwide through storytelling and creative communications, including radio and television (New York, NY). Drafted foundation income projections. Wrote grant proposals and reports and direct mail copy. Conceived and developed a new foundation funding strategy that identified more than 100 new foundation prospects in four new categories: global security, women’s rights, human rights, and the environment.

2000 - 2002

Grant Writer. American Civil Liberties Union Foundation (civil liberties law), New York, NY. Wrote grant proposals and reports for ACLU national special projects: Immigrants’ Rights Project, Death Penalty Project, Lesbian and Gay Rights Project, HIV/AIDS Project, and Drug Reform Litigation Project. Researched and identified foundation prospects. Worked with ACLUF senior staff and Project Directors Ira Glasser, Lucas Guttentag, Matt Coles and Graham Boyd, and with staff lawyers to develop fundraising strategies and cultivate donors. 1997 – 2000

Production Coordinator, Dream for An Insomniac, Jennifer Aniston, T. DeBartolo, director (credited). 1997

Researcher/Operations Coordinator. The Casey Family Programs, Seattle, WA. Researched and provided editorial, communications and project support for TCFP, the nation’s largest child-focused operating foundation. Conducted research for and participated in standing birth family policy work group. Copy edited social work practice guidelines. Produced corporate videos.

1993 – 1997

Senior Writer. Blum & O'Hara (fundraising consultants) Los Angeles, San Francisco, CA. Wrote grant proposals and letters of inquiry. My clients included American Film Institute, L.A. County School District, Writers' Guild of America, Sea Shepherd Society, BASÉ (Basic Adult Spanish Education), Jewish Family Services (Violence Against Women Project) and others.

1989 – 1993

Screenwriter (additional scenes) Mission to Kill, William Smith, Sean MacGregor, director (credited) 1989

Assistant to Head of Production. Fries Entertainment (television producers), Los Angeles, CA. Prepared movie-of- the-week and miniseries budgets and shooting schedules. Wrote network project pitch synopses. Hired and supervised production office staff. Coordinated post production (credited). 1988 - 1989

Development Associate. Canton/Klein Productions at Fries Entertainment. Wrote network project proposals; tracked breaking news stories and worked to secure rights of principals (for potential movies-of-the-week); evaluated story content of literary properties. 1987 - 1988

Story Editor. Cannon Films (feature film producers), Los Angeles, CA Wrote line notes for screenplays in development; conferred with screenwriters; evaluated story content. Also, on-set executive trainee, Death Wish 4, Charles Bronson, J. Lee Thompson, director (credited). 1985 - 1987

Story Analyst. Roger Corman’s New World Pictures (feature film producers), Los Angeles, CA Wrote story reports (synopses, critique and evaluation) of screenplays and other literary properties. 1983 - 1985

Education. San Francisco State University, B.A., summa cum laude, Film Production and Theory, 1983. Studied with Abraham Polonsky. Wrote, directed and edited My Donut with Annie, a short parody distributed by Coe Films that played the national Landmark chain as part of Reel Spoofs, released in March 1983. (Click link to view. https://m.youtube.co m/watch?v=OcFYzgOp7Ok.) Further studies at the American Film Institute. Member of Board of Trustees and Chair, Board Fundraising Committee, Celebrate the Children School, Denville, NJ

(February 2016-July 2023); Member, Board of Directors, 230 Park Place Coop (Brooklyn, 2002-2005); Member, Board of Directors, Julian Theatre (San Francisco, 1980-1983). Speaks Spanish.

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