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David Steven Rappoport is a non-profit professional with 30 years of experience. His primary focus is grant writing and related services. He works with non-profits, local and regional government agencies, businesses and philanthropies in the Midwest, New England and nationally.

He has broad experience and expertise in health care, and has worked extensively in housing and other mission areas. He has been both a grant maker and a grant writer, affording him a robust understanding of how funders think and operate. He has secured about $40M in public and private funds. David has served as the Director of Development in an urban community health center system. At Millennia Consulting, he has worked with, and wrote successful proposals for, non-profits and philanthropies in the Midwest and New England in health care, economic development, and other mission areas.

He was the Senior Program Officer of Maine's largest health care foundation, the Maine Health Access Foundation. There, his responsibilities included design of the initial grant making processes for the Foundation, and subsequent management of grant making for more than 288 awards totaling $21,198,000. He also managed a number of evaluation efforts. His work also involved significant health care systems change work.

Earlier, as a principal of Development Solutions Group, he worked with clients in thirteen states to develop programs, and wrote applications to HUD, HRSA, and other federal agencies, as well as state agencies. This work primarily involved HOPWA and Continuum of Care.

As an administrator of community-based AIDS clinical trials in Philadelphia, he managed multi-million dollar private and public research contracts.

As a member of a number of non-profit Boards, he has engaged in other forms of fundraising, such as capital campaigns, direct mail, planned giving, and annual appeals. He also has extensive experience as a trainer and facilitator. He developed and taught workshops in change management, grant writing, fundraising for more than ten years. He holds two Master's degrees – one a M.S. in Management from Antioch New England Graduate School, and the other a M.A. in writing and literature from Goddard College.

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