Alice Ruhnke

The Results of the 2023 Winning Grant Proposal Competition Are In!

Every other year, GrantStation and the Grant Professionals Association sponsor the Winning Grant Proposal Competition (WGPC). This summer, over 185 organizations that won a grant award in 2022-23…

It’s Winning Grant Proposal Competition Time!

Excited. Joyful. Competent. Rewarded. These are some of the feelings I have experienced after learning that I won a grant award. All the planning, writing, editing, and revising have paid off—it…

GrantStation and The Grant Advantage: A Partnership that Works!

Because I cannot remember what I had for dinner last night, I find it strange that I distinctly remember my first interaction with GrantStation, and more specifically, the CEO Cindy Adams. It was…

Alice Ruhnke is the President of GrantStation. Having raised over $45 million from federal, state, and private grantmakers, she knows what it takes to get funded. As a former nonprofit program coordinator and director, and the Founder of The Grant Advantage, Alice has a deep understanding of the challenges that nonprofits face. Over the last 20 years she's worked in the trenches with hundreds of nonprofit organizations to improve their capacity to raise funds. Alice is an author and educator with a passion to share her expertise. Her insightful trainings on grant proposal writing and development, community change models, service projects, and measuring outcomes have helped over 4,000 individuals positively impact their communities.

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