Writing the World, LLC

Writing: 

Anders brings her love of learning and passion for writing to this product line. She meets your writing needs through a variety of mediums such as online and print articles, social media, reviews, reports, newsletters, and ghost writing. As an academically-trained historian, Anders specializes in historical sketches. 


Editing:

Our copy editing includes grammar, spelling, punctuation, style, word usage and wordiness, paragraph placement, possible need for synonyms, avoidance of duplications; and resolving inconsistencies. Substantive review includes evaluation of Author’s overall concept, organization and logic, readability and clarity, flow and transitions, continuity.

Research: 

Anders has conducted extensive research for clients as well as her own projects. She is highly skilled with internet research as well as traditional methods utilizing print, microfilm, and primary-document archives. She added oral histories in 2008. She can assist you in any of these arenas.

For Rev. Gelsey, she provided primary editorial research for his book on world peace. For nonprofit projects, including grant writing, research is needed for such topics as best practices and finding more information on other organizations providing similar services.

She has utilized archives from diverse places:

• Cornell University (American Anti-Slavery Collection),
• Swedenborg Library at the Bryn Athyn College in Pennsylvania
• newspaper archives, Scottsbluff Public Library in Nebraska
• Kansas State Historical Society. 

Anders' skill set allows the written word to be be vocalized through her public speaking and teaching. A versatile public speaker, she has the ability to teach, preach, lecture, even lead spiritual retreats.

She has taught at the university level as well as provided community education. She has preached at Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) and United Church of Christ congregations in Colorado and Nebraska. She led spiritual retreats in the 1990s through the Covenant of Gethsemane, a spirituality leadership group through the Disciples of Christ denomination.

Anders started presenting her scholarship at professional conferences in 1998. She primarily covers 19th-century U.S. reform movements through the eyes of activist/author L. Maria Child (1802-1880), Betabelero (Mexican-origin beet field workers) contribution to the sugar industry, and African-American farmer and entrepreneur Junius G. Groves (1859-1925). Examples include:

• “Impact of the Western Nebraska Beet Fields through the Eyes of Art,” paper presentation, Western History Association, Denver, Colorado, October 2012.    

• “Gender and Labor: Betabeleras and the Western Nebraska Sugar Industry,” session coordinator, paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Springfield, Illinois, June 2011.

• “Three Decades in the Making: L. Maria Child’s Surprising Convert to Reforms,” paper presentation, Peace History Society (national meeting), Rock Hill, South Carolina, October 2009.

•  “Sugar Beets and Social Justice in the Career of David Lee Child,” paper presentation, Annual Meeting of the Agricultural History Society, Reno, Nevada, June 2008.

• “Agricultural Societies and Racial Equality: Junius G. Groves as Example,” presentation, Organization of American Historians Regional History Conference, Lincoln, Nebraska, July 2006.

Nonprofit services to our clients include grant writing, project management, nonprofit consulting, and grant reviewing.

Anders began her nonprofit career as a grant writer at New Foundations Nonviolence Center (NFNC) in 1993. She continues in this role with other organizations to this day. Her successes span twenty years in the field:

• 70% success rate, foundation and church grants at NFNC and subsequent nonprofits.
• Secured grants from Humanities Washington BlackPast.org and Kansas Humanities Council for Votaw Colony Museum, Inc.
• Reviewed federal grants for the Office of Community Services, Administration for Children and Families, US Department of Health and Human Service, Summers 2009, 2005.
• 100% success rate with government grants at NFNC, procuring their first federal and state grants for three new projects, 2003-05.
• Directed  (NFNC and Colorado Women's Agenda) all aspects of grant writing, including researching potential funders, writing proposals, and follow-up reports as well as coordinating staff and interns’ efforts in this regard, utilizing Microsoft Word, Excel, and Access.
• Increased NFNC annual revenues from $24,000 in 1997 to $55,000 in 2004.  For FY 2004-05, approved budget was $78,000. CWA’s 2006 budget, $165,000.

Anders provides excellent project management for a variety of your organization's programming. For instance, she coordinated BlackPast.org's LGBTQ Section and Photo Permissions. At Votaw Colony Museum, Inc., she co-directed the organization as well as the bi-annual public history events.

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Ordained in 1993 by the Nebraska and Central Rocky Mountain Regions of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Anders continues her community ministry in two major ways:

• Guest preaching
• Assisting with life transitions, especially weddings and memorial services