Julia Bethmann has supported the goals of numerous clients with a wide range of funding sources. Client work has included grant writing, project management, prospect research, board development, annual appeal, event planning and more. Since forming my consulting practice in 2007, I have raised more than $15M in private, corporate, and government grants for clients.

Key awards include:

  • Five year, $900,000 grant from the Massachusetts Executive office of Health and Human Services for ARPA Strong Communities Initiative in 2023.

  • Multi-year, $300,000 per year grant from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health’s Child and Youth Violence Unit of the Bureau of Community Health and Prevention for the Gun Violence Prevention, Intervention, Treatment and Recovery Services program in 2019.

  • $250,000 per year for two years from The Barr Foundation for placemaking initiative in 2022.

  • $500,000 from Department of Housing and Community Development (DCHD) for placemaking and environmental initiative addressing waterfront flooding.

  • Three consecutive Urban Agenda $100,000 awards in 2020, 2021, 2022 for small business engagement and placemaking initiatives.

  • Clipper Ship Foundation $100,000 for transitional housing for homeless youth.

  • The Barr Foundation $100,000 award in 2019 to complete a strategic planning effort for the client’s creative placemaking initiative.

  • Successfully applied for a client to become a contracted fee-for-service provider for the Department of Transitional Assistance’s CIES program increasing fee-for-service revenue.

  • Essex County Community Foundation $30,000 Creative Communities award to support a cilent’s year-long community engagement and place making exhibition event.

  • 11-year Massachusetts Department of Public Health Violence Against Women Act (VOCA) procurement renewal of more than $700,000 annually for emergency shelter and community based services.

  • Two-year capacity building grant of $140,000 from The Peter and Elizabeth Tower Foundation to expand the agency’s innovative Child Parent Psychotherapy and Advocacy-based trauma treatment program to a second location in 2017. Successfully received a second award of $87,000 in 2018 to expand this program to a third site in 2019.

  • Obtained and maintained multiple years of funding from the Massachusetts Department of Early and Secondary Education After School and Out of School Time (ASOST) fund supporting a STEM initiative for inner-city students.

Other projects include:

  • Grant success with the Massachusetts Department of Transitional Assistance; National Endowment for the Arts, Office of Refugee Resettlement, Department of Health and Human Services, Department of Homeland Security, Massachusetts Department of Public Health (DPH), Massachusetts Office of Victims Assistance (MOVA), Department of Early and Secondary Education After School and Out of School Time (ASOST), United Way of Massachusetts Bay, Workforce Investment Opportunities Act (WIOA), City of Boston, and Community Development Block Grants in Boston, Lynn, Salem, and Gloucester.

  • Submitted grants and maintained relationships on an annual basis with all major Boston/New England area funders including Mable Louise Riley Foundation, Yawkey Foundations, Boston Jewish Community Women’s Fund, State Street Foundation, Hyams Foundation, Amelia Peabody Foundation, Lincoln and Therese Filene Foundation, Paul and Edith Babson Foundation, Anna B. Stearns Foundation, and many others.

  • Submitted grants and maintained relationships on an annual basis with corporate funders including: Target Foundation, Cummings Foundation, Saucony Run for Good, New Balance, Citizens Bank, Bank of America, BNY Mellon, People's United Charitable Foundation, and many others.