Bess G. de Farber

Bess G. de Farber has had four careers: as a musician, and arts and culture administrator; as a program officer managing grant awards for Arts & Cultural, Social Services, and Human and Race Relations Programs; as a consultant for nonprofit organizations seeking grant funding, collaborations, and strategic planning; and as an academic research development professional at the University of Arizona and the University of Florida. She has provided grantseeking instruction and collaboration workshops to thousands of library staff, nonprofit and academic professionals, artists, and university students in the past 32 years, and has led efforts to secure millions in grant funding for nonprofits and academic libraries. Bess is the author of two books on grantseeking, Collaborative Grant-Seeking: A practical guide for librarians (2016), and Creating Fundable Grant Proposals: Profiles of innovative partnerships (2021), and coauthor of a third, Collaborating with Strangers: Facilitating workshops in libraries, classes, and nonprofits (2017). She holds a Bachelor of Music from the University of Southern California, and a Master of Nonprofit Management from Florida Atlantic University.