Bio
John W. Hicks, CFRE is Principal and Founder of DLBHICKS LLC, a consulting practice that provides virtual grant seeking and strategic counsel to nonprofit organizations from grassroots to global. Over a consulting career of more than 30 years, John has worked with a diverse and broad group of more than 100 nonprofits both in the U.S. and abroad.
John is a member of the faculty of Columbia University's School of Professional Studies (MS Nonprofit Management Program) where he teaches on the topics of fund-raising fundamentals and grant writing. He serves as a lecturer for the Rutgers University Institute for Ethical Leadership and is also an instructor for Candid where, since 1997 he has trained more than 5,000 nonprofit professional in grant writing. John has been awarded "Stellar Speaker" status by The Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) and has appears as featured conference speaker and webinar presenter. He is a contributing author to After the Grant (Foundation Center, 2010) and to The Nonprofit Handbook: Fund Raising (Wiley, 2001) and has published articles with Fund Raising Management and Advancing Philanthropy.
A Certified Fund Raising Executive, John is a former member of the Board of Directors of AFP International and is past president of the AFP New York City Chapter. He holds degrees from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and the University of Hartford. He has completed professional education courses with the Lake Forest School of Management and Harvard University.