What our clients are saying.
“I had the honor of working with April Christiansen first at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival. I admired her fierce intelligence and how well organized and thought out her work was. Last year, I jumped at the chance of hiring her to be our grant consultant at HERO Theatre. She has transformed the way we archive our work and create budgets. She's a team player and collaborates with our entire leadership team marvelously! What's most, she gets to the core of what our organization is about and identifies incredible funding opportunities.”
- Elisa Bocanegra, founder and Producing Artistic Director of HERO Theatre
“When our agency decided to apply for a federal HRSA grant quite late in the application process, April rode to the rescue and guided us through our team’s first federal application in record time, with a successful result. Her patience, intelligence, collegiality and significant experience in the federal grant world were invaluable to us. We can’t wait to collaborate with her again!”
– Eddie Wallace, OnTrack Rogue Valley
“I have appreciated working with April for several different organizations and grants. Without fail, she has been smart about identifying opportunities, attentive to details—and efficient and professional with her results.”
– Phil Busse, former Executive Director, Ashland Independent Film Festival
“The Applegate Valley Vintners contracted April to write a grant for Travel Oregon in 2021. Her process was well laid out and organized. Her interview process was thorough and painless. She helped us maintain checklists to ensure all of the appropriate information was gathered in a timely manner. Her first draft was so spot on we had very little revisions. She did an outstanding job of capturing the scope and overall organizational goals. A short time after submission we were notified that we had received the full grant award. The process couldn’t have gone better or smoother. We highly recommend April for all of your grant writing efforts and will call on her in the future without hesitation.”
– Laurel Briggs, Creative Marketing & Design for Applegate Valley Vintners
“Working with April is an absolute delight! She has a friendly and easygoing demeanor, and is readily available to jump in to help when needed. April is reliable, trustworthy, accurate, thorough, and organized.
I wholeheartedly recommend hiring April for your grant writing needs.”
– Jessica Sage, Artistic Director, Rogue Theater Company
“Being such a small staff, we were overloaded with day-to-day tasks on top of grant writing. April has been a true asset and necessity to our team. She has gone above and beyond our expectations, approaching every project with enthusiasm! We are thrilled with our experience and would highly recommend April’s expertise to those seeking grant writing support."
– Vincenzo Meduri & Aubrey Near, Enlightened Theatrics