Chelsea Wait

Grants Manager

Chelsea has been working in nonprofits for over twelve years. In 2015, they became an AmeriCorps member in the Florida Keys where they first started working in grant writing, development, and communications. Since then, they have worked at a variety of nonprofit organizations across the nation, including spending four years at a legal aid in the Tampa Bay Area where they wrote a successful $2.4 million HUD proposal supporting the state’s eviction prevention efforts. They are an award-winning creative writer of fiction and nonfiction and use their love of storytelling to help funders connect to program participants on a personal level.