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		Gay Grant
		1.207.582.7766 P.O. Box 4 S. Gardiner, Maine 04359


	Examples of successful grants written by Gay M. Grant:

	•		A Drug-Free Community Support Program grant of $500,000 over five years will help reduce drug abuse among youth in the Waterville, Maine, area.

	•		A Carol White Physical Education Program grant from the U.S. Department of Education to a school-community partnership will increase physical fitness and decrease child/youth obesity in four rural central Maine communities. Total award over 3 years, $377,898.

	•		A $604,197 Twenty-First Century Community Learning Center grant, a federal grant administered by the Maine Department of Education, will provide five years of after-school, summer enrichment and tutoring programs for low-achieving students in Kennebec County.

	•		Drug-Free Community Support Program, Continuation Funding, provided mentoring programs for middle school students, a school resource officer, and other strategies to decrease drug abuse among youth. Grant’s work ensured continuation funding for two years after the initial award, netting $199,980 for a community anti-drug coalition.

	•		A MELMAC Education Foundation grant of $65,000 enabled a school, community, business and higher education collaborative to increase the number of graduates from a Maine high school going on to post-secondary education. Grant now consults for the foundation, coaching two other grantee groups on their grant projects.

	Partial list of Gay M. Grant’s publishing/writing credits:

	•		Author of Along the Kennebec: The Herman Byrant Collection. (1995, Arcadia Publishers, Dover, N.H.)

	•		Freelance writer and photographer for Capital Weekly and other publications.

	•		Currently making revisions to her manuscript, working title “Destination Unknown: An Evacuee’s Story,” young-adult, history, to be published.

	•		She has assisted graduate students with theses and dissertations, and written brochures, newsletters and comprehensive plans.