Shavonn Richardson

Shavonn Richardson, MBA, GPC, has 20+ years of experience as a former grantmaker, nonprofit leader, and active federal grants reviewer. This experience gives her a rare, inside view of what funders actually fund. ​ She launched Think and Ink Grant Consulting® in 2016 to help organizations with budgets of $3 million+ stop guessing and start winning. Her approach is to use customized strategies and competitive proposals that deliver results. As Think and Ink Grant Consulting® celebrates its ten-year anniversary, Shavonn's team has deployed $625M+ of resources throughout the U.S. and the Caribbean. In 2020, she launched Get.Grants.Better.® to help emerging organizations with annual budgets under $3 million access discounted grant-writing training, templates, and strategic advisory services. Get.Grants.Better.® gives grant writing staff and organizational leaders the strategy, structure, and capacity they need to lead and build a grant writing office that wins. Shavonn holds the Grant Professional Certified (GPC) credential, earned by fewer than 1,000 professionals nationwide, and is a Forbes-published author, sought-after speaker, and LinkedIn industry voice. As a Certified B Corporation, Think and Ink Grant Consulting® is built on the belief that doing good work and doing good in the world aren't mutually exclusive.