Libby Hikind, Founder and CEO
Libby Hikind is the Founder and CEO of GrantWatch.com. Holds a post-master's degree in Educational Administration and Supervision.
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How did GrantWatch start?
Libby is often referred to as the 'Queen of Grants.' Libby opened GrantWatch in 2010 after retiring from her 29+ years as a teacher with the New York City Department of Education.
For two years, Libby worked as a grant writer for an NYC Dept of Ed Brooklyn school district raising $11 million.
Libby returned to teaching and opened her own grant writing agency in 1994... From 1999 to 2001, Libby created NYCGrantWatch, a faxed grant newsletter publication for her nonprofit client organizations.
What else is on the record?
Libby took a sabbatical to run for city council and is well known for her successful primary election campaign for New York's City Council (2001) for which she received an endorsement from The New York Times. Following September 11th, Libby volunteered at Ground Zero, where she gained recognition as a FEMA Project Liberty Crisis Counselor and Team Leader.
Libby is credited for more than 46,000 children receiving health insurance, as a result of her coalition building of nonprofits and writing the first Staten Island Child Health Plus proposal.
What did she write grants for?
Career highlights from her years as a working grant writer include the following programmes. The published list is undated and carries no third-party award record, so it is presented as career history rather than as a verifiable award ledger, and the per-line dollar figures are not reproduced.
- Drug-Free Schools Federal Activities Grant
- EDWAA Retraining Program, Dept of Employment
- JTPA Title II Training Program, Dept of Employment
- Staten Island's Child Health Plus, NYS DOH
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