HIGH IMPACT! Grants, Inc. is a Michigan-based grant writing training organization that specializes in delivering interactive, online professional grant writing training seminars to seminar participants from all over the world. Over 1,600 students have attended our HIGH IMPACT! Grants, Inc. grant writing seminars over the last five years and over 98 percent of past grant writing seminar attendees have stated they would recommend our professional grant writing seminar to others.
Edward Wollmann, Managing Partner
Edward Wollmann is Director of the Institute for Community-Based Research, Education and Evaluation at the Ann Arbor Center for Independent Living, a community-based organization that provides disability-focused education and advocacy services and supports to over 4,000 individuals and families yearly, in Southeast Michigan.
Besides being an experienced seminar facilitator, Edward is also an accomplished grant writer, with a 15-year history of successful grant development totaling over $12 million in federal, state and community-level grants funding (learn more)
Edward’s most recent successful grant awards include:
U.S. Small Business Administration, Program for Investment in Microenterprise (PRIME), five-year, $1,000,000 grant to research, develop and evaluate evidence-based micro-enterprise development practitioner best-practices that focus on how disadvantaged micro entrepreneurs might effectively use social capital as a microenterprise development strategy.
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, five-year, $1,250,000 million grant to research, develop and implement a series of evidence-based job search/career change training seminars that seek to facilitate employment among adults with and without disabilities.
U.S. Department of Education, Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services, Rehabilitation Services Administration, three-year, $300,000 grant to research, develop and implement a demonstration project that seeks to use a variety of sports, recreation and leisure activities to promote and facilitate increased community inclusion among youth and adults with and without disabilities.
Barbara Gardinier, Executive Events Manager
Barbara Gardinier brings a wealth of office administration and professional management experience to her duties as HIGH IMPACT! Grants, Inc. Barbara is in charge of customer relations, seminar planning, curriculum development, billing and invoicing, and site coordination.
Prior to joining HIGH IMPACT! Grants, Inc., Barbara was Executive Assistant to the CEO of Internet2, an advanced networking consortium comprising 221 U.S. universities, in cooperation with 45 leading corporations, 66 government agencies and other institutions of higher learning, 35 regional and state research and education networks and more than 100 national research and education networking organizations representing over 50 countries.
Barbara is married, has two wonderful children, and is the proud grandmother of three grandchildren, with a fourth grandchild on the way. Barbara is also a Master Gardener and does seminars on the art and science of Square Foot Gardening.
Finally, in her spare time, Barbara is an accomplished ZUMBA teacher, which is a unique combination of aerobics exercise and dance.