Grant seeking: Cynthia Adams of GrantStation

Evolving Your Workplace · Apr 13, 2023 · 50m

“What we’ve done is we’ve really tried to take peoples’ skill sets and use them so that they’re not only doing what they’ve been hired to do but they’re doing what they love to do.” - Cynthia Adams

Cynthia and two others started GrantStation in a one-room cabin in the woods of Alaska. The organization was created to connect nonprofits with grantmakers nationally and internationally in order to get the funding they need. Years later, it has now grown to 20 employees as a membership-based model.

At just 14, Cynthia had her first encounter with fundraising-- for a horseback-riding club she was a…