Linda Vallejo has over forty years of experience as a non profit trainer and consultant, and an art career that spans fives decades, Linda Vallejo offers her expertise to help NPOs and individuals artists identify, achieve, and work towards their goals. Over the past fifteen years, she has served as an on-line grantwriting instructor in over 2,000 colleges and universities nationwide, Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. She has written and received over $30 million in grant funds from foundation, corporate, government and individual donors for her many clients nationwide. Presently she serves as a grantwriting instructor for Loyola Marymount University Extension Non-Profit Funding and Development Certificate Program. She is also a development consultant, trainer, and grantwriter for the Compton Community College District, El Camino College Compton Center, the Assistance League of America, and Pacoima Beautiful, a non-profit environmental education organization. For the past three years she has served as a visiting professor and grantwriting instructor for Otis School of Art and Design Public Practice Masters Program in Los Angeles, California. Vallejo began her work in the non-profit sector as an artist and art teacher with Self Help Graphics, a non profit arts organization located in Los Angeles, California. She holds a Master of Fine Arts degree and is a practicing, professional artist exhibiting her art nationally and internationally. She has been awarded the Quien es Quien in U.S. Commerce National Award, Distinguished Recognition Award from the National Association Chicano Studies, Latinas Making History Award from Comision Feminil de Los Angeles, and was acknowledged as an Outstanding Young Woman of America.
