Professional Grant Writers and Consultants for Over 30 Years!

Meet the Team

We might be a small firm, but we are mighty!

Grant writing experts serving U.S.-based nonprofits

Our team consists of one full-time and three part-time subcontracted writers and researchers. This core group continues to excel at producing winning grant proposals and identifying funders for the various projects and programs of our clients.

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 page.

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.