Grant Doctor
Join the Grant Doctor
Sign up for an appointment for individual, confidential and supportive grant writing counseling and objective feedback from Kathy Ann Shaw, senior development associate at the Maine Arts Commission. Kathy will review your materials in advance and provide comments during your session on the format, clarity and fundability of your project and tips on improving your chances for success in the future. Grant writing resources will also be available for participants to take with them.
How do I participate?
To sign up for a 30 minute session at any specific artME location, please email Kathy at kathy.shaw@maine.gov. If you represent an organization: please submit a two-page narrative describing your organization’s mission, history and programs, the proposed project and a one page project budget. If you are an artist: please submit up to two-pages of narrative describing the proposed project, an artist statement and samples of your art work. Materials can be emailed to kathy.shaw@maine.gov or mailed to Maine Arts Commission, 193 State Street, SHS 25, Augusta, ME 04333-0025, no later than one week prior to the artME date.
Senior Development Associate
Kathy Ann Shaw has 22 years experience writing successful grant proposals and managing grant programs for artists, schools, communities and organizations.
She has served on grant review panels for the New Hampshire State Council for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts, and studied for her MA in Museum Studies at John F. Kennedy Center for Museum Studies in San Francisco.
Attendee Testimony
Thanks so much for your help yesterday and also your support. I'm feeling better about what I'm proposing or rather how I'm proposing it. You've succeeded in giving me the added confidence you were hoping I'd gain from our little "doctor's" visit.
--Susan Roux, Poland, Maine
“Even after years of being a professional artist, rejection still stings. But it’s another thing to know that you are at least being seen and heard by a grantee.”
--Anon
