About Tempra
Tempra Board is a professional grant writer, graphic designer, artist, and illustrator. For nonprofits, she specializes in grant proposal writing and management, and publication design. For more about how she became a grant writer, and tips for other former English majors about a career in grant writing, see her article for the Haberdasher online writing journal, here.
She holds a Master's degree in Communication Development from Colorado State University and a Bachelor's degree in English from Humboldt State University. Tempra has 25 years of resource development experience, including as Development Director of small and mid-sized nonprofits. She is also the Editor, Designer, and Publisher of Mark Makers' Quarterly, a journal of rural California art and artists, as well as Editor and Designer for Soundings, the quarterly magazine of The Sea Ranch Association's members.
Tempra never tires of exploring and documenting the natural world and its human and animal inhabitants. She lives in The Sea Ranch, California with her husband, David, and a manic kitten. When not grant writing or creative writing, she can often be found on a beach, forest trail, or a tennis court. She is also a published creative writer and maintains a blog called TempraSays.
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Tempra is on the Board of Directors of the North Coast Artists Guild and The Sea Ranch Foundation.
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