About Us
Pathways To Growth is a group of professionals who have found their passion…helping nonprofits reach their full potential in serving the urgent needs of their community.
Prepare Your Nonprofit For The Future
The Pathways To Growth Team helps nonprofits achieve high-impact growth and increased income generation through assessments for grant-readiness, grant research, grant writing, nonprofit management consulting, coaching, training, strategy development, and leadership development.
Wouldn’t it be great if there was one path in life that, if followed, would lead to guaranteed success? We would all be clamoring to get on that one path as early in life as possible! While that "one size fits all" path does not exist, there are unique paths for nonprofits that will lead to explosive success and growth.
At Pathways to Growth, we help you discover your unique pathway using proven success strategies and excellent, highly-relational client services. We will help you find and stay on your path to growth and success!
Who We Are
Pathways to Growth is a woman-owned company that specializes in helping nonprofits build their capacity in a comprehensive manner. We offer a wide spectrum of services designed to help organizations of all sizes and types reach their next level of sustainability. We are passionate about helping people, organizations, and businesses achieve high-impact growth and increased income generation through grant writing, coaching, training, strategic planning, board training, and leadership development. At P2G we help our clients discover their unique pathway to growth using proven success strategies and excellent, highly relational client services.
Pathways to Growth was founded by Julé Colvin in 2006 in Tampa, Florida. The company now employs a team of over 25 nonprofit professionals and grant writers. P2G’s writing team boasts over 100 years of combined grant writing experience. The team works with clients of all types and sizes across the country with diverse focus areas that include Judeo-Christian ministries, community, and economic development, hunger, social services, affordable housing, homelessness, transportation, education, veterans, healthcare, child welfare, professional associations, immigration, criminal justice reform, and museums.
Most of P2G’s team members have served in a wide variety of nonprofit roles in their careers including serving as grant writers, executive directors, program managers, directors of development, and board members, just to name a few. This vast experience enables us to bring a broad knowledge base to our clients. We help our clients to develop strong programs and organizations that demonstrate high-impact measurable outcomes, excellent leadership, thoughtful planning, and long-term sustainability, all of which are critical components to successful grant-seeking and organizational growth.
P2G has been serving nonprofit clients in the Tampa Bay and across the country for over fifteen years. Each year we have continued to add new nonprofit professionals to our team to meet demand along with increasing the number and size of our nonprofit clients. While we started the company by serving a few smaller nonprofits, our clients now include statewide and national clients with a wide variety of focus areas ranging from social services to health organizations to museums to educational organizations. We estimate that approximately 95% of our business comes from referrals. Our reputation has continued to grow because of satisfied customers.
Why We Serve
Pathways To Growth’s staff is passionate about helping nonprofits build their capacity in a comprehensive manner so they create greater impact, improve efficiency and increase appeal to potential grant funders and donors. Our leadership has valuable skills to share with nonprofits based upon over 30 years of personal “in the trenches” experience managing nonprofits and helping to build successful nonprofit agencies. We thrive on becoming a valuable, long-term member of our client's teams.
· If your organization needs nonprofit development, our collaborative approach provides you with sound insight and advice as to how to improve your nonprofit, leadership, board, and programs.
· If you are seeking grant writing assistance, we will not only write outstanding grant proposals for your nonprofit but, using our expertise in this field, also offer you valuable advice on how to improve your chances for grant success.
Pathways to Growth has earned a strong reputation for
integrity and
professionalism in all we do.
MEET OUR TEAM
Our team is trained both internationally and locally, so they understand your needs and the environment in which you do business.
FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
President
Julé Colvin
- Resides in: Florida
- Highest Degree: Bachelors
- Attended: Kent State University
- Grant Writing Since: 1986
- Fun Fact:
"I am a vocalist with experience singing professionally in a band, in chamber choirs and worship teams."
Julé’s passion for helping others grow to better impact the world for good led her to become a certified coach, trainer and speaker.
She has spent some 40 years in the business world helping individuals, nonprofit and for-profit businesses grow principally through coaching, training, strategic planning, leadership development and winning grants. She has helped to raise millions of dollars for charities throughout her career and has helped businesses of all sizes to flourish and reach new levels of growth. Her greatest successes have included helping to re-develop an inner city neighborhood through the development of affordable housing and high-impact programming, pulling together people and resources to address major social problems and growing her own business to a high level of success in a new market. She really enjoys helping people develop their leadership abilities and business acumen. Her goals are to help her clients focus, balance and achieve maximum impact.
Julé holds a degree (Summa Cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa Society) from Kent State University in Ohio. She is a certified coach, trainer and speaker through the John Maxwell Team. She is a business owner, wife, mother, grandmother, and volunteer. She leads such a fulfilled life and loves helping others to think big and go for it. She is known for her enthusiasm, integrity, passion to help others grow and her attention to detail. In her precious free time, you can find her riding her bike, volunteering or expressing her artistic side through interior decorating. She has been married for 35 years, has two children and two grandchildren.
LEADERSHIP TEAM
Julie Gillespie
Vice President of Production
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: Sep 2020
- Highest Degree: Masters
- Attended: Suffolk University
- Notable Experience: Julie has secured millions of dollars working within non-profits on grant writing and proposal management and post-award administration. She has also held upper management positions in nonprofits, including but not limited to executive director, senior director, and vice president. Her grant writing and grant management experience spans a variety of areas including K-12 education, arts and culture, homelessness and emergency assistance, community development, healthcare, biotechnology and infectious disease and violence prevention.
Michael Goss
Vice President of Operations
- Resides in: Mississippi
- Joined the P2G Team: Mar 2023
- Highest Degree: Bachelors
- Attended: North Central University
- Notable Experience: Michael brings 20+ years of leadership, management, strategy development and training experience to his role as Pathways to Growth’s Program Manager for Florida’s Responsible Fatherhood Initiative (RFI). In this role Michael leads a team of P2G training and coaching consultants along with developing program strategy and systems. Michael is an ordained minister with Worldwide Evangelism and also provides nonprofit consulting services designed to eliminate factors that limit growth and capitalize on factors that are catalyzing growth. He has served in numerous management roles along with serving as Director of Operations and Programs for a statewide ministry.
Greg Sheek
Grant Specialist Team Lead
- Resides in: Alabama
- Joined the P2G Team: Oct 2023
- Highest Degree: Masters
- Attended: University of Georgia
- Notable Experience:
- Greg spent 15 years in economic development. During that time, he managed a statewide entrepreneurship development program, securing and managing over $1 million annually in state, federal, and private foundation grant funding. He is an active member of Hunter Street Baptist Church and serves as a high school parent booster for cross-country and soccer.
Support Team
Linda Donegan, CPA
Accounting Support
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: Aug 2016
- Highest Degree: Masters
- Attended: University of Central Florida
- Notable Experience: Linda became a CPA in 1983. Drawing from her vast business experience, she formed a virtual assistance company 2011 and now helps small to mid-sized business with their accounting and finance functions.
- Fun Fact: Linda and her husband, Dennis, enjoy five grandchildren, golfing, travel and reading."
RESEARCHERS, REVIEWERS & WRITERS
Pamela Ames-Coke, PhD
Grant Writer
- Resides in: Colorado
- Joined the P2G Team: Apr 2022
- Highest Degree: PhD
- Attended: University of Iowa
- Grant Writing Since: 1992
- Fun Fact: When Pam is not writing, she enjoys spending time with her husband, son, and dogs.
Valarie Bostic
Grant Writer/Reviewer
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: Jan 2022
- Highest Degree: Bachelors
- Attended: State University College of New York
- Grant Writing Since:
- Fun Fact: In 2016, Valarie received a “Women of Distinction” award for her achievements in early education.
Alaina Cunningham
Grant Reviewer
- Resides in: Hawaii
- Joined the P2G Team: Oct 2022
- Highest Degree: Masters
- Attended: Eastern Washington University
- Grant Writing Since: 1996
- Fun Fact: "I have worked in the public, private and non-profit sectors."
Diane DiGiacomo
Grant Reviewer
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: Oct 2020
- Highest Degree: Masters
- Attended: American University
- Grant Writing Since: 1990
- Fun Fact: Diane has spent over 30 years serving in the philanthropic sector.
Sharon Fennell-Kennedy
Grant Writer/ Reviewer
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: Sep 2016
- Highest Degree: Bachelors
- Attended: State University College of New York
- Grant Writing Since: 1994
- Fun Fact: "I am curious and desire to dig deeper to find answers."
Kristina Fortner
Grant Writer
- Resides in: North Carolina
- Joined the P2G Team: Jun 2022
- Highest Degree: Masters
- Attended: Walden University
- Grant Writing Since: 2006
- Fun Fact: "I'm a BIG football fan!"
Debra Marcus
Grant Writer/Reviewer
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: May 2020
- Highest Degree: Bachelors
- Attended: Michigan State University
- Conducting Research Since: 1982
- Fun Fact: "We had beehives and sold honey at local markets."
Jillian McAdory
Grant Researcher
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: Nov 2022
- Highest Degree: Bachelors
- Attended: Spelman University
- Grant Writing Since: 2020
- Fun Fact: "I love graphic design."
Carolyn Miller
Grant Writer
- Resides in: Florida
- Joined the P2G Team: Jan 2011
- Highest Degree: Bachelors
- Attended: Union College
- Grant Writing Since: 2008
- Fun Fact: She loves supporting and serving nonprofits.
Janet Miller
Grant Writer/Researcher
- Resides in: Pennsylvania
- Joined the P2G Team: Jun 2020
- Highest Degree: Masters
- Attended: Northeastern University
- Grant Writing Since: 2016
- Hobbies: Exercising, traveling, volunteering, working, and spending time with young adult/teens Jillian and Ben
Dorian Townsend, Phd
Grant Writer/Reviewer
- Resides in: Arizona
- Joined the P2G Team: Apr 2022
- Highest Degree: PhD
- Attended: University of New South Wales
- Grant Writing Since: 2010
- Fun Fact: "I have a passion for long distance motorcycle riding."
We are always looking for experienced, passionate and dedicated writers to join our team. Send a cover letter and resume to: info@pathwaystogrowth.us
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