About Professional Grant Services
Professional Grant Services owner Shannon Thom Martin, along with 2 skilled consultants, has over 45 combined years of experience in the areas of grant writing, fundraising, business development and marketing.
Shannon Thom Martin has been fundraising and grant writing in Kansas for over 15 years. She provides consultation services for local government, schools, hospitals, and non-profit organizations. She writes and administers all types of grants including state, private foundation and federal.
Shannon is a Certified CDBG Grant Administrator, a graduate of the Grantsmanship Center Training, and holds a masters degree in education from Pittsburg State University. Additionally, she conducts motivating workshops and trainings in grant writing basics, fundraising, marketing, project development, goal setting, board development and other topics. Shannon lives near Dexter, Kansas with her husband and four children.
Rebecca Scott began working with grants over ten years ago at Iowa Valley Community College District in Marshalltown, Iowa. There she was the Assistant Dean of Training Grant Programs and oversaw a multimillion dollar budget and grant program.
Rebecca now resides in Arkansas City with her husband and two children. She provides grant writing services for organizations that include government, law enforcement, schools, hospitals, safety-net clinics and other non-profit organizations. She has worked with grant programs that emphasize health/healthcare for over five years and is passionate about projects that create healthier communities.
Rebecca holds a Master of Arts in Business Leadership from Upper Iowa University, Des Moines. She is a Certified CDBG Grant Administrator and a graduate of the Grantsmanship Center. She also completed the Kansas Health Foundation Master Facilitator Program and continues to be one of their ambassadors.
Heather Huntington Fuesz enjoys working with for-profit and not-for-profit organizations in the areas of fundraising, marketing and grant writing. In recent years, she has been employed by the Kansas Scenic Byways, Walters’ Pumpkin Patch and Horses of Hope Therapeutic Riding Centers. She enjoys assisting organizations in creating a total fundraising and marketing approach as well as writing proposals and conducting workshops. In addition to serving on the Ranchland Trust of Kansas board, she is a member of the Kansas Agritourism Committee, the Farm Credit Marketing Advisory team and president of the Greenwood Preservation Society.
She is a graduate of the Grantsmanship Training Center and holds a degree in journalism/mass communications from Kansas State University. She and her husband Cory enjoy ranch life in the Flint Hills of Kansas where Heather also operates Spring Creek Guest House. They have two children: Clinton, sophomore, at Butler Community College and Cash age six – proud to be in kindergarten.