Marlynne Powell currently works as a Grants and Non-Profit Development Consultant. She has earned a Master’s in Urban Planning (M.U.P.) from Wayne State University and a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California, Davis. She has spent the last twelve years of her career working for various non-profit agencies and major universities in the development of programs, management of fundraising for these programs, as well as researching and writing corporate, private foundation, and federal grant proposals with success. Overall, her proposal writing expertise has helped bring in over $1.5 million. Marlynne has published a number of journal & magazine articles focusing on topics as broad as community development, zoning and urban planning, and non-profit grant proposal writing. She recently published her first book titled, Navigating the Grants Process: A Guidebook for Community-based Agencies, Municipal Planners, and Anyone Else Involved in Funding Public Programs