Heather Denkmire, principal

Heather Denkmire is a writer and business owner with a passion for issues of social justice. She enjoys designing websites and other publications, hanging out with her teenaged daughters, and growing spiritually in her Quaker community

She graduated from Skidmore College in 1991 where she majored in sociology and minored in English. In the early 1990s, she worked at the National Women’s Political Caucus in Washington, DC to increase the number of women elected to political office. She went on to assist in the development activities for the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s department of Campus Ministry in St. Paul, Minnesota. Heather has provided grant-seeking services for non-profit organizations across the country with great success.

Since the inception of grantwinners.net in 2003, Heather’s work has helped grantwinners.net clients acquire over $5,500,000 in grant funds. In 2004, Heather became the grants coordinator for York County Community College. In addition to coordinating the grants proposal process in a 4 million dollar capital campaign, Heather’s work included locating and securing funding for a new Associate Degree of Science in Nursing program, a new Entrepreneurial Center, and a variety of departmentally specific projects. After just one year, Heather’s proposals were instrumental in raising over $200,000 for YCCC. In September of 2005, Heather left YCCC to focus on grantwinners.net clients more effectively.

Heather’s freelance writing assignments have ranged from regular columns for young adult magazines to corporate coverage for publications like the Houston Business Journal and Mainebiz. In 2004, she wrote a book entitled The Truth About Fear and Depression (Facts on File, 2004) that is part of a nationally recommended high school curriculum. In addition to talking with nonprofit organizations about their grant winning needs and managing projects for her team, she continues other forms of writing on a freelance basis.

Heather lives in Portland, ME with her two daughters.