Pathworks Business Development, Inc.               

Executive Back Office Services 

Pathworks provides small business owners, school-district officials, and non-profit executives, expert technical skills in research, writing, strategic planning, problem-solving, and fundraising. 

You get off the "overwork treadmill," freed to focus on your organization's big picture.   Our consultants help busy executives improve their productivity and their firm's bottom line.  And it's all possible at a fraction of the cost of full time staffing!

Grant-Writing Services

We can help you get your agency's share of the multimillion grant industry dollars today!

Our grant-writing "win ratio" is among the highest in the industry. Over 65% of the grants we write with positive, proactive, and collaborative clients are won!

Benefits

• Personalized and Continuous Executive "Sounding Board" Support
• Lower personnel costs; no benefit load
• Consistent, high quality production
• Professional, reliable, on-call work
• Satisfaction guaranteed

Who We Are

Dr. Melissa Brown, Chief Executive Officer

• Selected by Prentice Hall Publishers as one off the top 12 female managers in the U.S. Featured in the bestselling book, A Few Good Women.
• Writer/Designer of successful grants valued over $385,000,000.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Educational Economics, University of
  California, Davis
• M.A. in International Affairs, California State
  University Sacramento
• B.A. in Economics, Stanford University

 Michelle Murdock, VP Technical Writing & Operations

• 15 years successful technical writer and editor
  in Silicon Valley
• Senior Editor and Editor-at-Large, InfoWorld  magazine, IDG's top-circulation computer
  publication

Education:

• B.A. University of California, Santa Cruz

Staff

Bonnie Seaton, Financial Advisor

Kenneth Brown, MBA, Financial Services

Akilah Cadet, VP Fund Advising

Connie Seaton, Sales & Marketing

Kecia Lawson, Paralegal and Executive Assisting

Valerie Powell, Executive Assisting & Grant Writing

Contact us:  (916) 449-9988