Securing grants enables organizations to better serve their communities, ensures consistent funding, and builds credibility...but what is the secret to securing the elusive grant?

Our classmate and professional grant writer Linda Jackson Sowell can provide some answers.

During this webinar, Linda will focus on the requirements of a well-prepared grant-seeker, the structure of a grant proposal, the process--relationship building with potential funders ( cultivation, solicitation, stewardship) as well as the communities served, and on how to build a win-win structure between grantmaker and grant recipient for various types of grants.

Linda Jackson Sowell, A.B.,'73, MPH, '76, is a graduate of Harvard College, and Harvard Chan School of Public Health in Health Policy and Management.

Linda provides grant-seeking, strategic planning and presentations that promote philanthropy, grantsmanship and wellness/health advocacy as Principal of Abyssinia Group Consulting. She also reviews proposals for federal and state grant programs.

Management roles throughout her career in health care administration, non-profit organizations and university settings have consistently involved responsibility for central office corporate, foundation and government fundraising and institutional advocacy.

She has served as Chair of the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) National Corporate & Foundation Relations Annual Meeting; Chair, Grants Committee for the Second Chance Trust Fund, Ohio Department of Public Health; and as member of the Friends of the African American Philanthropy Committee of the Cleveland Foundation.

Linda is also longtime supporter of HR73 ClassAct, the Harvard Club of Northeast Ohio and serves as Co-President of the Kuumba Singers of Harvard College Alumni.

On Thursday, June 6, from 7-8:30pm EDT, the Harvard class of 1998 and ClassACT HR73 invite you to join us for LIFE AT MIDLIFE: WHAT’S NEXT?, a special intergenerational program exploring change and meaning in midlife and beyond. 

We hope that many members of both classes will join us for this special opportunity to get to know one another while learning about the challenges we  all experience in life and how to consider navigating them. Changes in career, family structure, gender, and priorities can seem daunting in midlife, but they can lead to a greater sense of life well-lived.

Dr. Robert Waldinger ‘73, Director of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, and Alexis Redding '98, a lecturer at the Harvard School of Education, moderated by Michael Feferman ‘98, will begin our program and provide us with tools for informed conversation. 

Drawing on questions from the 25th Reunion survey of the class of ‘98, HR’73 classmates, Bobby Clayton, Ron Dieckmann,  Anne MacKinnon, and Lindsey Straus will  share personal  reflections about changes they made in their lives during midlife and beyond, why they made them, and how those changes have impacted their lives. 

All attending will then be invited to join breakout rooms to allow us to talk freely with one another about our own experiences, questions and concerns

Finally we will come together for a few minutes at the end to share the takeaways from our rooms.

Please join us!

ClassACT HR73 is pleased to announce a ClassACTors Learn at Lunch series in Biodiversity, Climate Change and the Environment…an informal monthly zoom meeting to hear, learn from, and ask questions of members of the ClassACT Environmental Working Group and others.