Maryn Boess

Background

About Maryn Boess

SUMMARY: Maryn Boess is a veteran nonprofit professional, social entrepreneur, and leader in capacity-building and grantsmanship training, founder of GrantsMagic U, and author of "The Ultimate Grants Toolkit: Essential Worksheets, Blueprints, and Step-By-Step Planning Guides to Help You Build Great Grant-Funded Projects!" Over her 30+-year career in the nonprofit world, Maryn has been an on-staff program developer and grantwriter; an independent grants consultant (winning more than $42 million for her clients over 10 years); a grants project manager; a grants trainer; a grants reviewer, author, speaker, mentor and coach; and – starting in 2006 - even a grantmaker. This done-it-all background gives her the unique 3-D "insider's" perspective she brings to the practical and inspiring trainings on healthy, successful grantsmanship that she has been blessed to share with tens of thousands of nonprofits of every size, nationally and internationally as well. GrantsMagic U, launched in fall 2015, is the "virtual academy" she created to make her extensive portfolio of grantsmanship trainings available (and affordable!) for anyone, anytime, anywhere. GrantsMagic U is an Approved Continuing Education Provider for both the Grant Professionals Certification (GPC) and Certified Fund-Raising Executive (CFRE) credentials. Since 2006 Maryn has also been “in the grantmaker’s chair,” managing up to $2 million annually in grantmaking for K-12 education in the Southwest. She considers herself a dual citizen in the grants world, and may be the only person to concurrently hold membership in both GPA (Grant Professionals Association, for grantseekers) and GEO (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations, for grantmakers). In 2020, she became just the second person inducted into the International Grant Professionals Class of Distinguished Fellows by the Grant Professionals Association, the Grant Professionals Foundation, and the Grant Professionals Certification Institute, in honor of her lifelong legacy of service to the grants community.