Katherine FH Heart, GPC, M.Ed. is a GPA Approved Trainer with 16 years of grant course development and training experience. Katherine presents in plain language with "can-do" enthusiasm. Content is regularly updated for regional and national trends.
Click on the links below to view the course descriptions. Organizations can request customized webinars and workshops on the Contact page.
*Accepted Education Programs (*) for GPCI-certified individuals and candidates for the GPC by the Grant Professionals Certification Institute in 2022.
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Grant Train-Coach-Mentor Service: Katherine utilizes this approach alongside the grant courses (described above) to build the capacity of small to medium-sized nonprofits and grant teams for completing competitive proposals. Use the Contact page to request an initial virtual meeting and briefly describe your organizational needs.
Katherine offers mentoring via private video calls and emails to participants in the GPA Mentor Match Program.
Katherine was one of three mentors selected for the Catalysts for Community (C4C) Program, a national pilot project to increase the capacity of under-resourced small nonprofits in NW Arkansas to apply for and manage grant awards while creating a pipeline of trained grant professionals and future nonprofit leaders. The GPA Arkansas Chapter organized the project with partial funding from the Walton Family Foundation. Nonprofits and student interns received monthly assistance from September 2023 to May 2024 to produce grant and fundraising deliverables. Katherine offered mentoring support to the mentee agency’s development director and intern’s goal of learning about federal grants by providing a First-Time Federal Grant Seeking Course to assist in furthering their mission centered around “opening avenues” of opportunity for people with disabilities.
Katherine has provided grant presentations, webinars, and courses for these organizations from 2008 to the present.
American Therapeutic Recreation Association
Association of Fundraising Professionals-Western PA Chapter
Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management at Robert Morris University
Big Brothers Big Sisters of America
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh-Nonprofit Resource Center (Basic and Advanced Proposal Writing and other grant workshops, 2009-2019)
Carnegie Mellon University
Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Pittsburgh
Community College of Allegheny County (Grant curriculum development and grant courses, 2009-2011, 2022)
Copeland Center for Wellness and Recovery
Coro Center for Civic Leadership
East Suburban Citizen Advocacy
Emerging Philanthropy Conference sponsored by AFP/PPGC
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (Mission Sustainability Cohorts in Beaver PA, Toledo OH, Fargo ND, San Francisco CA, Southwest Washington State)
Grant Professionals Association Annual Conference & Webinars
Grant Professionals Association-Western PA Chapter
Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank - Huddle 4 Hunger Conference
Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Monroeville Campus
Local Government Academy
Love Your Space Cohort sponsored by Green Building Alliance & The Forbes Funds
Marietta College Nonprofits LEAD Program in cooperation with the United Way Alliance of the Mid-Ohio Valley (Parkersburg, WV)
Mon Yough Area Chamber of Commerce
Open Avenues
Pennsylvania Library Association, Southwest Chapter
Pittsburgh Mercy Health System
PRO Youth & Families (Sacramento, CA)
Reimagine Fayette
Steel Rivers Council of Governments
Sto-Rox School District
Student Conservation Association
United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh: English Department, Global Studies Department, Graduate School of Social Work, National Network of Libraries of Medicine Mid-Atlantic Region
VisionServe Alliance
Volunteers of America in Pennsylvania-Working Order Program
Youth Places
Trainer Bio: Katherine (Hudgens) Heart earned a Master of Education degree from the University of Pittsburgh in 1984. She received an A+ in the Grants and Fundraising Course at the Graduate School of Social Work and turned her interests to the nonprofit sector. Early in her career, she taught and managed education and training programs for nonprofit organizations before focusing exclusively on grants beginning in 2002.
Katherine’s participation in the 2012-13 SAMHSA Voice Awards Fellowship included advanced communications training and mentoring from Vanguard Communications, a national award-winning PR Agency in Washington D.C. Her planning and presentation skills were enhanced by the experience of designing and carrying out an advocacy campaign involving media outreach and motivational speaking.
Katherine has also completed Train-the-Trainer programs with the Department of Justice and Fred Pryor Seminars, the Grantsmanship Center's 5-Day Grant Training Program, Advanced Grant Proposal Writing and Budgeting courses with the Foundation Center of New York, author Dr. Bev Browning, and many webinars offered by the Grant Professionals Association.
See these success stories from past training participants.
