Ellen Karsh

Ellen Karsh

Ellen Karsh was the director of the New York City’s Mayor’s Office of Grants Administration for more than seven years, writing grants and teaching proposal writing throughout the city. Before that, she developed and wrote grants for the New York City Department of Education for five years. She received her doctorate in Special Education from Columbia University.

She co-authored “The Only Grant Writing Book You’ll Ever Need, 5th Edition.”
A Modest (But Really Important) Plea To Thank Your Donors

I am writing this — call it a lament, a plea, a whine — not as a grant writer or as the co-author of a book about how to write grant proposals, but as a donor. Don’t get me wrong. I’m not a zillionaire philanthropist. I do, however, donate relatively small (not to me) sums to numerous nonprofit organizations...