Peggy Thompson, Ph.D
Grants Development Services for Non-Profit Organizations, Schools, and Colleges
Peggy’s Background
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.
In addition to working for the Foothill-De Anza District, Peggy has also worked for five other districts in San Mateo and Sacramento and has served as a grant reader for the U.S. Department of Education, the California Department of Education and the California Community Colleges. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology from Stanford University, earned her M.A. and a community college teaching credential from San Francisco State and a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from U.C. Berkeley.
Peggy also managed a 2,000-student apprenticeship school, consulted for Apple Computer in Costa Rica, and helped develop a model CityWorks project in San Francisco.
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Winning Grants Associates
Several very skilled technical advisors, evaluators and graphic artists help Winning Grants with client projects. Many clients, including some who write their own grant applications, particularly value Winning Grants’s thorough research on charitable foundation and government funding sources.