Ron Flavin is a Business growth and funding strategist, author, speaker, expert in getting startups, early-stage firms and organizations of all types funded. He is a creative, fully bilingual (English/Spanish) grants specialist with a proven track record (raised over $200 million over10 years) of developing and writing successfully-funded competitive grant proposals and cooperative agreements for businesses, non-profit organizations, governmental agencies and educational institutions in the United States and abroad. He has worked in Colombia, Perú, Switzerland, Spain, the United Kingdom and Germany. http://www.rflavin.com/ Highlights of his accomplishments include: • Helped a startup to obtain a $9.3 million grant to commercialize a new technology. • Secured $1.1 million to fund an innovative biomass demonstration project for a California-based start-up company. • Obtained a $3 million grant to fund a tribal economic development project. • Assisted a state government in obtaining a $7.7 million grant to fund a telecommunications project. • Two years in a row, he wrote the only Rural Utilities Service (RUS) Community Connect funding proposal awarded to a tribal entity in 2011 and 2012 (each year only 16 about proposals were funded nationally out of more than 600 proposals received), securing individual grant awards in excess of $1 million each. In the last round of funding, out of more than 600 proposals reviewed, Flavin’s proposal was the only one that unanimously received a perfect score from every reviewer. • Ron Flavin has been featured in dozens of articles and television news shows across the United States and on a global scale. • Author of Business Grants: Everything you need to know to connect with local, state and Federal grants for business.