Over 20 Years Experience with Public Safety Grants and Grant Writing
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237 N. Brooks St.Manning, SC 29102
Office: 863-551-9598
Cell: 863-287-3958
Email: [email protected]
About Kurt: Kurt Bradley is a nationally recognized public safety grants consultant and retired law enforcement officer and administrator. Currently the Senior Grant Consultant with First Responder Grants, Inc., Kurt uses his 30 years experience in public safety and grant-writing to specialize in the grant development and grant training needs for the Fire Service, Rescue, EMS, and Emergency Management Agencies (EMAs).
Qualifications
Kurt has attained certifications with the National Grant Writers Association as a:
- Certified Grants Consultant
- Certified Grants Reviewer
- Certified Grants Administrator
- Certified Grants Specialist
Background
Kurt began his career in the US Air Force, serving during the Vietnam era. He served as an Airborne Early Warning and Control Systems flight crew member and also with the nuclear Intercontinental Ballistic Missile program as an Astro Surveyor. He was a key member in the development and testing of the Global Positioning Satellite System (GPS) program currently in use today.
After an honorable separation in 1976, Kurt began his 25-year career in law enforcement. In 2001 he retired as a Lieutenant and Assistant Chief with a Police Department in Central Florida. During his law enforcement career he was the commander of the communications and criminal investigations divisions for his department. He was a certified law enforcement instructor with the State of Florida and, after the events of 9/11, served with the regional FBI anti-terrorism task force. Kurt was also the grant writer for his city.
Upon retiring from law enforcement, Kurt worked for the local housing authority, writing grants for that agency to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). He also wrote grants to corporate and private foundations for social service programs. He was involved in the administration of the $24.5 million HUD HOPE VI grant awarded to that agency and had responsibility for $3.2 million of social service programs. Kurt’s work at this agency resulted in several regional and national HUD “Best Practice” awards while he was employed there for programs that he developed.
From 2004-2009, Kurt was appointed to develop and direct CHIEF Grants (a business unit of CHIEF Corp.) and had responsibility for developing this new business unit providing grant writing training and grant development services to public safety agencies nationwide.
In 2009, Kurt was offered and accepted the position of VP of Homeland Defense Grants with responsibility for developing a full service grant consulting and training firm to assist public safety agencies across the US with a special interest in DHS funding streams.
In 2010, Kurt joined First Responder Grants, Inc., as a senior consultant. He joined forces with his long-time professional colleague and mentor, Margaret Stark, to better serve the First Responder and Public Safety agencies of the US, and those companies serving them. Kurt is the Director and Senior Consultant for all Fire/Rescue/EMS and Emergency Management consulting. Their current client base covers more than 9,000 public safety agenices acorss the US.
During Kurt’s career, he and Margaret have assisted their clients and public safety agencies to win more than $1 billion dollars in grant awards from corporate/private foundations, local, state and federal grant programs.
Author, Journalist, Speaker & Instructor
Kurt is available to give presentations and lead discussions on grant issues at conferences, summits, seminars and workshops. He regularly appears for grant strategy and development presentations with a specialized emphasis on DHS and public safety grant seminars across the country. A dynamic speaker and presenter, Kurt engages his audience and is renowned for his “meat and potatoes” style and his ability to present his subject matter in a format that is easily understood and comprehended well by the public safety employee.
Kurt is a regularly published freelance magazine journalist and guest columnist to public safety industry and Homeland Security publications. He was a guest staff columnist to several local newspapers and has written a weekly law enforcement column. Kurt was the editor of his agency’s newsletter and won both the FAHRO and SERC-NAHRO “Best Newsletter” awards for a housing agency in 2003. Kurt has been a featured guest columnist for the Homeland Defense Journal, FireRescue1, Campus Safety Magazine, JEMS, Fleet Safety Magazine and other public safety industry publications. He also is a prolific blogger in the Federal Grants and Funding thread of Firehouse.com forums, as well as the primary blogger and writer of the First Responder Grants Fund Finder blog.
Kurt is co-author of the published reference work Grant Writer’s Handbook for Successful Public Safety Grant Proposals, which is the first reference body of work specifically targeted and directed at the public safety sector in this field.
Kurt’s broad range of experience in public safety, grant writing and journalism makes him uniquely qualified to handle the needs of public safety agencies and others, seeking grants to supplement their shrinking budgets.
As a grants consultant and retired public safety administrator, Kurt brings a unique perspective to this field both as a former agency “administrator-in-need,” and as a grant professional. His experience will serve your department well as you compete for the billions of dollars in grant monies that have been made available through the Department of Homeland Security and other public and private sources of grant funding.