Angelique S.C. Grant, Ph.D.
Senior Consultant & Principal
The Inclusion Firm
Angelique S.C. Grant, Ph.D. is a Senior Consultant, and Principal at The Inclusion Firm is a seasoned industry leader with more than 27 years of experience in the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors. As a Senior Consultant, she provides counsel on diversity, equity and inclusion practices, fundraising, and nonprofit strategies. Her services include inclusive strategic thought partnership, building and leading effective, diverse teams, recruitment and retention strategies, diversity audits and assessment, and cultural awareness training. She is a certified unconscious bias trainer and certified diversity recruiter, has been an active speaker for countless industry associations over the years, and has chaired and served as faculty for several conferences across the country.
Dr. Grant recently compiled, as co-author, this expertise into the first comprehensive book on DEI in advancement: Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Advancement: A Guide to Strengthening Engagement and Fundraising Through Inclusion (CASE 2020). It serves as a guidebook for nonprofit teams seeking to move from awareness of DEI to action and sustained behavioral change. It features interviews with philanthropy leaders across all nonprofit sectors, as well as the "DEI Maturity Model," which she developed.
Throughout her career, Dr. Grant has successfully managed teams to meet fundraising goals in several multi-million dollar campaigns, and two separate billion dollar campaigns. Previously, she served as an Assistant Vice President of Development and Assistant Dean of Medical Advancement, Herbert Wertheim College of Medicine at Florida International University. Her extensive experience in higher education advancement has also included roles at Princeton University, Washington State University, and the University of Miami Leonard M. Miller School of Medicine.
Dr. Grant is a proud Miami, Florida native. She is a Fulbright Scholar who holds a Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration specializing in Institutional Advancement from Washington State University. She has a M.A. in Communication, specializing in Public Relations and Media Management from Washington State University, and a B.S. degree in Journalism from Florida A&M University.
She is the founder of the South Florida Network of Blacks in Philanthropy and serves on numerous boards, including Our Fund (LGBT) Community Foundation, the African American Development Officers (AADO) Network, and the Advisory Committee for Women of Color in Fundraising and Philanthropy (WOC). She has been recognized as one of the 25 Most Influential and Prominent Black Women in South Florida by Success South Florida Magazine, a Lumina 10 in ICABA Honors South Florida 100 Most Accomplished Blacks Healthcare & Law, and selected as a Top Hat Woman of Achievement Award for Community Empowerment.
Current and past consulting clients include: Brown University, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, ImpactAssets, Caramoor Performing Arts Center, Red Empress Foundation, Freedom House, Rhode Island School of Design, Macalester College, Haverford University, Bowdoin College, Franklin & Marshall College, Bucknell College, Elizabethtown College, Lucile Packard Foundation on Children’s Health, North Carolina State University, Gonzaga University, Moody James Madison University, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Association of Healthcare Philanthropy, Rice University Moody Center for the Arts, University of Illinois, Chicago, University of Virginia, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, HHS, and many more.
