Diane created The Write Source in 1993 because of her passion for helping nonprofits achieve their goals.  She knew that she could use her nearly 15 years of corporate marketing management experience with Fortune 500 companies and a couple of years as a nonprofit development director to make their grant-seeking efforts successful.  In fact, Diane began her career in grants in 1988 when she sat on the other side of the table reviewing proposals from local nonprofit organizations in her role as a regional marketing director managing the corporate giving program for a major fast-food chain.

Today, The Write Source stands as a testament to her skills and talent for providing exemplary grant-seeking services.  She has a very strong, corporate work ethic; she has extremely high standards.  Her track record of preparing successful grant proposals, case statements, and researching funders speaks for itself.  Time and time again, her clients tell her that it was because of her success in securing grants that they wanted to contract The Write Source to work on their projects, especially federal grant applications.

As you can see, Diane Gedeon-Martin is The Write Source.  Every page of this website speaks to her accomplishments.  She is the main writer, chief researcher, and workshop presenter.

Making the case for support on paper or online is just like breathing to Diane – it comes naturally.  She knows what funders want and prepares documents with exacting detail, even providing kernels of information the funder didn’t request but that helped her client win the award.  It is this type of focus that helps her design winning responses.

Diane truly loves her work.  She is eager to share her grant-seeking methods with others.  You can learn more about her teaching and conference experience by visiting our Workshop Presenter Bio and Past Workshops & Conferences pages.

• Lifetime Member of the Grant Professionals Association (GPA) – 1999 to present
• Retired adjunct faculty for The Fund Raising School at the Lilly Family School of Philanthropy at Indiana University – 2001 to 2015
• Founder and faculty for the Association of Fundraising Professionals (AFP) Connecticut Chapter’s Principles of Fundraising workshop series – 2008 to present
• Faculty for the Connecticut Community Nonprofit Alliance (The Alliance) – 2003 to present
• Faculty for the Nonprofit Center of the Berkshires – 2020 to present
• Faculty for Philanthropy Massachusetts – 2018 to present
• Member of AFP – 1994 to present
• Member of the Association of Philanthropic Counsel (APC) – 2019 to present
  • Member of the APC Executive Committee of the Board of Directors – 2020 to present
  • Co-Chair of the APC Education Committee – 2024 to present
  • Past APC Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer – 2020 to 2023
• Member of the Nonprofit Consultants Network – 2020 to present
• Former faculty for the Annie E. Casey Foundation’s Elm City Fellows for Children and Families and other workshop series – 2008-2012
• Past member of the Board of Directors for Children in Placement, New Haven, CT – 2012 to 2018
• Past Vice President, Program Committee Co-Chairperson, and Education Committee Chairperson of the Board of Directors of the AFP Connecticut Chapter – 2007 to 2012
• Past Co-Chairperson of the Grant Seeker’s Network and Chairperson for the Education Committee for the AFP Greater Detroit Chapter – 1995 to 2001
• Former adjunct faculty for the Wayne State University and AFP Greater Detroit Chapter’s Essentials of Fundraising workshop series – 1995 to 2000
• Former faculty for Nonprofit Enterprise at Work (NEW) Center (MI) – 1995 to 2000

These three, part-time writers and researchers remain behind the scenes due to their other careers with nonprofit organizations.  They do not have client contact yet produce exceptional materials for the clients of The Write Source based on the direction they receive from Diane.

Clients of The Write Source have contact only with Diane. She prepares all foundation, corporate, and government proposals while her three sub-contracted assistants provide backup support such as adopting proposals that she prepared into the formats of individual grantmakers or researching potential funders for a particular program or project.