Work
Grant Writing
Private and public grant research
Detailed technical and narrative grant writing
Post-award grant management
The money is out there, but how do you get it for your project? I have successfully earned my clients over $2 million from grant awards with housing and energy projects.
Through detail-oriented project managing, I can help you apply for funding and, if needed, be there with you when you have been awarded.
Project Management
Day-to-day task management and support
Project visualization and asset mapping
Stakeholder and team engagement
Launching or continuing a project?
I can help your team establish realistic team expectations and internal communication strategies before taking on challenges ahead. Developing a plan to keep your team’s goals centered and stakeholders on board will always be critical to your success.
Energy Analysis
Building-energy performance modeling
Energy production and efficiency analysis, including preliminary off-grid modeling
Agricultural energy design
From contractors to farmers to utility managers, my energy analysis has provided our clients with the ability to take a confident step forward. I offer building-energy performance modeling that highlight the opportunities for advancements in energy generation and efficiency.
Take the guesswork out and let me dive into the details.
2024: Chimacum Commons
Working with the Olympic Housing Trust, we are addressing affordable housing for our local farming and food system workers on the Olympic Peninsula. Partnered with the Jefferson Land Trust, we are moving ahead on the
Chimacum Commons project as an innovative approach to rural affordable housing for a critical workforce.
As a team, we secured a $197,000 grant for pre-development costs through the Department of Commerce.
2024: Energy Installation
Battery and inverters
Solar panels and batteries have were installed for the Tulalip Tribes’ Village of Hope following the successful 2023 grant with Department of Commerce’s Solar + Storage For Resilient Communities program. This system will be used during frequent power outages and bridge the energy needs so that this rural, supportive neighborhood can keep doing their great work in all seasons.
In 2024, I was honored to secure 9 awards for housing and energy projects totaling more than $550,000.
2023: Solar + Storage for Resilient Communities and Community Solar Expansion
In collaboration with GS Consulting, I helped lead our team in submitting and being awarded on five applications to the Department of Commerce’s first ever Solar + Storage for Community Resiliency fund. These collected awards, worth more than $600,000, will help nonprofits, tribes, and local governments pay for critical energy storage systems to build resilience in the face of an uncertain energy future. Additionally, with my clients I was able to secure two successful grants for solar installation worth over $200,000 from Washington State University’s new community solar program.
Dundee Hill concept art
2023: Housing Trust Fund and CHIP
I was proud to support the Olympic Housing Trust in their successful applications to the Dept of Commerce’s Housing Trust Fund and CHIP programs. Together, we were awarded over $570,000! These large grants will help this community land trust organization provide five units of permanently affordable housing in Jefferson County for the Dundee Hill project. Dundee Hill will be the first of its kind and emphasizes green development standards throughout the project, as well as the inclusion of a neighboring community garden which residents will have an opportunity to join.
In 2023, my grant writing and project managing earned my clients a total of $1.7 million in grant awards from 14 successful grants applications.
2022: Beneficial Electrification Toolkit
Through my work with the non-profit Environmental and Energy Institute (EESI) I helped lead the build out on the nation’s first ever Beneficial Electrification Toolkit. Beneficial electrification (BE) does not assume electrification as purely ‘good’ but develops a standard for programs and projects. BE combines multiple values of grid resiliency, customer savings, environmental benefit, and improving quality of life.
Debuting in early 2022, the Toolkit is designed for utilities that are preparing for the great energy transition of the 21st century. Check out the Toolkit to learn what is new in the world of funding, technology, and energy policies that can be adopted in rural America.
2022: Share Our Spaces campaign
As housing affordability and availability plummet nationwide, some communities are taking a stand for their workforce. The Jefferson Community Foundation launched Housing Solutions Network as an initiative to combat the rapid drain of workforce housing in Jefferson County, WA. I worked to help establish a comprehensive promotional campaign to deepen awareness regionally of the issue and the many solutions at hand.
2021: Climate Battery installation
Locally grown citrus? How about bananas? Thanks to the innovative climate battery technology, one can actually grow these tropical crops alongside PNW staples. By burying an air circulation system below the soil, one can pull warm air underground and save it for later when the day cools off. This can extend a growing season and expand what can be grown in temperate climates.
Watch my explainer video and see how the future of clean energy and agriculture are developing here in Port Townsend, WA.
Past Collegiate Work:
Project ZeNETH
What if university students took a school assignment to design a net zero energy home and made it real?
I launched Project ZeNETH (Zero Net Energy Tiny House) with similarly ambitious students to answer this question and to find a way to weave together issues of housing and energy into a unified and inspiring project. As the founder and project manager, I attracted university funding and private sponsorship from companies such as A1DesignBuild, Western Solar, and Silfab Solar. With their support of this student-led project, ZeNETH is on its way to being one of the first net zero energy building on a university campus in Washington State.
ZeNETH highlights the absolute necessity of university students graduating with an actionable education. Amazingly, many of our past team members graduated with project experience to use to jump-start their design and energy careers.
This work was recognized by Governor’s Inslee’s office and resulted in an invitation to present our work at the Governor’s Mansion in Olympia.
