Peggy Thompson, Ph.D
Grants Development Services for Non-Profit Organizations, Schools, and Colleges
In 1995 Peggy founded Winning Grants to help San Francisco Bay Area nonprofit organizations acquire innovative foundation grants. Her proposals have won major awards from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, the California Eisenhower Science Teacher Education Program, the Stuart Foundation, the Community Foundation of Santa Cruz County and many other funders. A few years ago she won $600,000 in State of California funds granted to the San Mateo County Community College District and United Airlines Maintenance Division win for employee training. Her latest award is a first grant for the Divorced Fathers Network—$6,500—for a Successful Fatherhood project at the Roundtree Minimum Security jail farm in Watsonville.
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Founder/Senior Grantwriter Peggy Thompson, Ph.D. Peggy Thompson was a community college administrator when she began writing successful grant proposals. Her first award—from the Carnegie Corporation—provided funding in the early 1970s for re-entry women students in the Foothill-De Anza Community Colleges/NASA Ames Research Center Internship Program— a paid internship program for community college students that is still active today.
Peggy's background