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Judy Snyder is a formally trained and experienced grants professional. She served Maricopa Integrated Health System (MIHS) in Phoenix, Arizona for nearly three years as a grant proposal writer and researcher.
At MIHS, the public healthcare system serving Maricopa County, she researched, created and maintained an Access database of 350 private funding sources in the healthcare industry to which MIHS was eligible to apply. She discovered scores of new grant opportunities for MIHS, which includes Maricopa Medical Center, 13 Community Healthcare Centers (clinics) and until recently a number of healthcare insurance-style plans. While Judy was instrumental in maintaining many of MIHS's existing grant-funded programs and the funding itself—in particular the federal Ryan White CARE Act programs for vulnerable populations infected with and affected by HIV/AIDS—she recognized the importance of cultivating relationships with potential new funders and pursued these vigorously.
As a result, she won five new competitive grants from government, corporate and foundation sources which previously had no relationship with MIHS. This was an increase from zero new competitive grants won in the recent memory prior to her joining MIHS.
In addition to researching and pursuing funding opportunities, Judy was part of the small team responsible on an ongoing basis for the planning and administration of direct-service and education programs for the populations served by MIHS. She also worked closely with Maricopa Medical Center's Chief of Surgical Oncology to establish the MIHS Breast Cancer Care Fund (BCCF) to serve needy women, and won for it a $75,000 grant—the largest amount possible—from the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation, as well as media coverage valued at nearly $15,000.
Prior to her tenure at MIHS Judy worked for three and a half years at Cable News Network in Atlanta, Georgia, and contributed in many capacities there, including choosing and booking guests for interviews, research and writing, and more technical aspects of news production. Prior to joining CNN, she worked as a staff writer and page editor for The Daily Republic in Mitchell, South Dakota and was part of the editorial team for medical publisher Current Science in central London.
Her training includes courses from the nationally-recognized Grantsmanship Center of Los Angeles, California and The Grantsmanship Institute in Glendale, Arizona. Judy earned her Bachelor of Arts from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas, where she majored in Spanish and philosophy and completed a semester at the Institute of European Studies in Madrid, Spain. She also completed significant undergraduate coursework in chemistry, biology and physics. Trinity University has been ranked No. 1 in the West in the Regional College s and Universities Category by U.S. News and World Report's annual Best Colleges issue every year since 1988.
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