Ann K. Tomcho, Owner

The Fourth Dimension Consulting Services

8256 W. Dickerson Road

Akron, Michigan 48701

Phone: 989-691-5380

OBJECTIVE:

To assist non-profit agencies obtain out-side funding for the development and implementation of innovative and necessary programs and projects for at-risk and special population groups. The intent is to improve the quality of life for those who are facing challenges, those who have "fallen through the cracks", and those who are seeking a means for self-improvement and self-realization.
 

BACKGROUND:

Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio and now residing in Michigan’s rural Thumb area. Education includes 5 years at Ohio State University with a major in English and a minor in Sociology, and a BA degree from Saginaw Valley State University also with a major in English and a minor in sociology.

While serving in the Peace Corps in Honduras, Central America, after outward-bound training in Puerto Rico, as well as Community Development training at the University of Illinois, New Harmony, Indiana, returned to Cleveland to establish, with a grant from the Cleveland Foundation, a self-help agency for the Spanish speaking population.

In Michigan, developed and wrote a Title VII nutrition grant for Bay County, which became the first senior citizen nutrition program in Michigan, and one of the first twenty in the nation. As Director of the Bay County Council on Aging for 7 years, started the program with a staff of 3 and a $60,000 grant, and left the agency with a budget of l/2 a million dollars, a staff of sixty and serving in excess of 2,000 senior adults weekly. Developed and won voter approval for the first Senior Citizen Millage in the State of Michigan.

For the Human Development Commission (HDC) in Caro, Michigan, wrote successful grants for:

Michigan Department of Education, pre-school grants

Michigan State Housing and Development Authority (MSHDA)

Social Security Administration (SSA)

D.A.R.E.

Detroit Edison Foundation

Federal Housing Authority (FHA)

GRANTS AWARDED IN PAST 5 YEARS:

As an independent grant writer writing under the name of The Fourth Dimension Consulting Services, developed and wrote the following successful grants:

For Scheurer Hospital (Pigeon, Michigan)

Rural Transition Grant Program (Department of Health and Human Resources)

$150,000 over a 3-year period

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $25,000

Michigan State Medical Society, $4,000

USF&G Foundation, $5,000

Barth Community Trust, $13,000

For Created for Caring (Bay City, Michigan)

Michigan State Housing and Development Authority (in a partnership with the Bay County Women’s Center) two grants: $74,500 and $68,000

Consumers Power Foundation, $3,000

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $25,000

Dow Corning Foundation, $43,000

For the Bay County Department of Social Services

Developed and wrote the community plan for the Strong Families/Safe Children

Initiative, resulting in $600,000 over a 3-year period

For Hills and Dales General Hospital (Cass City, Michigan)

Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, $25,000

Michigan Loan Forgiveness Program, $30,000

U.S.D.A. Distance Learning Grant program, $308,000

For the First Baptist Church in Beaufort, S. Carolina -

$50,000 from the Presser Foundation. The Foundation received 1,200 applications from which 3 were funded.

For the Regional Educational Media Center (REMC #10) in Cass City, Michigan,

Public Telecommunications Facilities Program, $198,000

REMC’s Thumb Area Television (TATV)

wrote and produced a 2-hour live special, "Winter Weather Preparedness in Michigan’s Thumb Area" which was also aired on 3 local radio stations. Involved was the National Weather Service, Emergency Managers, the United States Coast Guard, a local Physician and the NBC-25 meteorologist.

For West Shore Community College, Scottville, MI

USDA Distance Learning and Telemedicine Grant Program $291,296

Ludington Area Foundation $2,000

Oceana County Community Foundation $1,500

Dow Chemical Company Foundation $10,000

West Shore Bank Foundation $2,000

Great Lakes Casting Foundation $1,500

For Baldwin Family Health Care, Inc., Baldwin, MI

USDA Telemedicine Grant Program $82,919

For Alaska State Hospital and Nursing Home Association, Juneau, Alaska

Due to the grant request, the project is now in the 2004 Congressional Budget

For MidMichigan Health Services, Houghton Lake, Michigan

USDA  $334,462

For Volunteers in Action, Tuscola County, Michigan

 Robert Wood Johnson Foundation $35,000

For First Pentecostal Church of Aberdeen, Mississippi

Grant/loan combination from the USDA Public Facilities Grant Program $300,600

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