Kim Jacques
Kim has helped nonprofit organizations successfully bring in grant funding for 15 years. In fact, the Colorado Department of Education has used her grant narratives as samples of "how to do it right" in grantwriting training sessions. 'Nuff said.
Over the years, Kim's clients have included health clinics, substance abuse treatment providers, school districts, private schools, city agencies, youth mentoring programs, ex-offender re-entry programs, faith-based agencies, social justice organizations, workforce training providers, early childhood education providers, arts organizations and programs serving the homeless.
Highlights of her career include:
- Obtaining grant funds for clients from nearly every local foundation, many national foundations and a wide range of state and federal government agencies including the U.S. and Colorado Departments of Education, the Colorado Department of Corrections, Department of Youth Corrections, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, the U.S. Department of Justice, Centers for Disease Control, Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment, Health Resources and Services Administration
- Developing and presenting hands-on training workshops for nonprofit leaders with topics including locating potential sources of funding, writing successful foundation grants and drafting federal and state grants
- Providing clients' staff members with individualized coaching and mentoring
- Serving as a regional program development/grant writing trainer for the National Center for Community Education, funded through the Mott Foundation
- Received her B.S. degree from Colorado State University and her law degree at the University of Denver College of Law
Kim and her husband live in central Denver. Her children are in college – her son attends CU-Boulder, her daughter a small liberal arts college in Wisconsin. Now that her children are nearly grown, Kim is discovering her "inner-crafter" and can be found dabbling at art journaling, knitting or felting projects when she is not raising money for worthy causes.