Saadia Faruqi
President

Saadia Faruqi, author of Best Practices in Grant Seeking: Beyond the Proposal, has almost ten years of grant writing and development experience in the nonprofit sector. Her areas of expertise include at-risk youth, women's health, domestic violence, science education, adult and family literacy, and the arts. She also has experience in finance, public relations, communications, and marketing.

Saadia holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Central Florida and a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Karachi, in her native country of Pakistan. She is the founder and past Chair of the Grant Writers’ Network of Greater Houston, an organization dedicated to providing professional development, training and networking opportunities for grant writers in the Houston area. She has also served as Editor-in-Chief of Nonprofit Gazette, an e-zine for the nonprofit sector of Greater Houston.

Dedicated to helping improve the nonprofit community, Saadia recently conducted a research study on the relationships between funders and grantee organizations, and how this impacts the grants awarded. Her study was published in the Journal of the AAGP, Fall/Winter 2004 Issue, Volume 3 Number 2, pp 37-46, entitled “Grantor-Grantee Relationships – A Research Study”.

Her newest book, Best Practices in Grant Seeking: Beyond the Proposal was published in November 2009 by Jones & Bartlett Publishers. Included in the book is the first-ever research on factors affecting foundation grants, and the best practices of hundreds of nonprofits throughout the country. More information about the book is available here.

Saadia Faruqi is a true professional and always exceeds expectations.  Her communication skills are superb, and she possesses a very high level of expertise in the field of grant writing. It is difficult to find really good grant writers to meet my high expectations, so to have found Saadia, I feel quite fortunate. I would strongly recommend her to anyone who wants the job done right.

Beverly Santicola

U.S. Government Grants