Educator - 16 years; Professional grant writer - 15 years; $20+ million in successful grants. Executive Director of a non-profit - 5 years. Extensive writing experiences includes grant proposals, administrative reports, articles for the newspapers and thank you letters to financial donors. All of these experiences required correct English grammar, spelling and punctuation. The writing also had to be understandable and make sense to the readers. My strength is my background in the English language - writing, proofing, and editing. I taught elementary school for approximately 15 years, and currently hold a Masters Degree in Educational Leadership. One of my pet peeves is incorrect usage and mispellings of words in the English language. From the classroom I went into administration and grantwriting, where the proposal had to be understandable, well written, and convincing. I wrote grants for 15 years with a high success rate in funded projects. I can help whether it is with your w