Libby Hikind, Founder and CEO of GrantWatch.com.
Libby Hikind is the Founder and CEO of GrantWatch.com, the leading grant funding search engine for nonprofits, businesses, and individuals. Libby holds a post master’s degree in Educational Administration and Supervision and is a wife, mother, grandmother, and great grandmother.
Libby is often referred to as the "Queen of Grants." Libby opened GrantWatch in 2010 after retiring from her 29+ years as a teacher with the New York City Department of Education. While teaching, Libby wrote grants for her special education classroom, mainstream education and business careers, computers, and entrepreneurship classroom. For two years, Libby worked as a grant writer for an NYC Dept of Ed Brooklyn school district raising $11 million.
After which time, Libby returned to teaching and opened her own grant writing agency in 1994. Libby Hikind is a national grants expert. From 1999 to 2001, Libby created NYCGrantWatch, a faxed grant newsletter publication for her nonprofit client organizations. Libby took a sabbatical to run for city council and is well known for her successful primary election campaign for New York’s City Council (2001) for which she received an endorsement from The New York Times. Following September 11th, Libby volunteered at Ground Zero, where she gained recognition as a FEMA Project Liberty Crisis Counselor and Team Leader. Libby is credited for more than 46,000 children receiving health insurance, as a result of her coalition building of nonprofits and writing the first Staten Island Child Health Plus proposal.
After retiring from teaching, Libby moved to Florida and embraced the new Internet and computer technology. She designed and developed GrantWatch.com in 2010 with the knowledge of what grant funding information a grant writer or board member needs. GrantWatch started providing the search capacity to the NYC area, NY State and continuing to the Tri-State area. The company later moved to represent the USA, Canada, Israel, and other International regions.
GrantWatch.com is now the leading grant website in the funding industry. GrantWatch is the online resource for grants for nonprofits, government agencies, municipalities, foundations, corporations, small businesses, and individuals.
Today more than 200,000 nonprofits, businesses, and individuals visit GrantWatch.com each month and also read GrantsNews, a blog that offers late-breaking grant and fundraising news.
Many nonprofits also use Libby’s two other websites: GrantWriterTeam.com and YouHelp.com. GrantWriterTeam, which first launched in 2013, matches grant seekers with highly skilled grant writers. In its first year of operation, more than 130 partnerships were formed between grant seekers and grant writers. YouHelp.com, the other sister company, is a fundraising platform for USA-based nonprofits to raise funds for worthy projects. The site also teaches nonprofits to market their organizations.
Libby continues to move forward with her online plans for updating, re-designing, and launching grant-related websites for virtually every niche in the industry.
• New York City Campaign Finance Board
• New York Times - Special Election Will Decide 3 City Council Seats
• WomLead Magazine - Grants Could be Saving Grace for Businesses
• The Jam - with special guest Libby Hikind
• Enterprise Radio - Why Small Businesses and Nonprofits Should Seek Grants During a Pandemic
• SupplyChain Management Review - Grants Help More Than Nonprofits
• The Round Table Talk Show - with special guest Libby Hikind
• The Culture News - Interview with host David Serero
• A Modern Nonprofit - How to Find Grants
• CBS News - Helping Teachers Get Money for School Supplies
• The Grant Guru - Can Florida Survive Another Shutdown?
• EeDesignIt - How Manufacturers Can Benefit from (And Receive) Grant Money
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