About the author
Christina Ryder is the founder and CEO of The Grantwell, LLC. The Grantwell LLC provides non-profit social service groups (including faith-based, community- based, and grassroots groups) with quality and affordable grant support, grant writing, and grant training.
Christina graduated from the University of California, Irvine with a Master of Arts in Social Science, a concentration in demographic and social analysis, and a course focus in social inequality. Christina has been a grant writer for over 13 years and, as a fundamental area of expertise, has been successful in securing millions of dollars in foundation, corporate, and federal requests for multiple non-profit organizations, coalitions, and grass-root projects worldwide.
She has served in various capacities within non-profit organizations including direct service, administrative, training, and research capacities. An activist at heart, Christina has dedicated most of her personal research and volunteer efforts to addressing the needs faced by at-risk youth, those affected by poverty, and women and children victims of violence. In addition to her role at The Grantwell, LLC, Christina is an adjunct Professor of Sociology at Drury University and an Instructor of Sociology at Missouri State University where she also serves as Coordinator of the non-profit training program, GO LEAD, through the Office of Non-Credit Programs and as Assistant Director for the Center for Social Science and Public Policy Research. In November 2011, Christina was appointed to the Springfield, Missouri Mayor’s Commission on Human Rights and she is also an active member of the Community Partnership of the Ozarks Council of Collaboratives.
More information about The Grantwell, LLC can be found online at: www.thegrantwell.com.