SAADIA FARUQI
President, Faruqi & Associates
Phone: (832) 858-3864
Email: SFaruqi@FaruqiAssociates.com
Website: www.FaruqiAssociates.com

Faruqi & Associates is a fundraising consulting firm specializing in proposal writing, communications, public relations and board development for nonprofit organizations locally, regionally and internationally.

Saadia Faruqi has more than 8 years of fundraising experience in the nonprofit sector through freelance consulting, volunteering and full-time employment. She has raised money for organizations in a wide variety of fields, including children’s health, domestic violence, science education, youth mentoring, adult and family literacy, and the arts. She also has experience in public relations, communications, marketing and finance.

Prior to founding Faruqi & Associates, Saadia worked as Grants Administrator at Big Brothers Big Sisters of Greater Houston. Impressed with her fundraising abilities, Big Brothers Big Sisters signed on as her first client when she decided to open shop as a consultant. Before this she served as Development Director at Literacy Advance of Houston.

Saadia has received the prestigious President’s Student Service Award, granted by George W. Bush for volunteerism and student leadership. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Central Florida, where she also received the Knight In Shining Armor Award and the Student Government Service Award & Scholarship for her community service. She has also completed a Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Karachi, in her native country of Pakistan.

Saadia is also the founder and Chair of the Grant Writers’ Network of Greater Houston, an organization dedicated to providing professional development, training and networking opportunities for grant writers in the Houston area

Saadia's research projects include a research study on the relationships between funders and grantee organizations, and how this impacts the grants awarded. Her study was published in the Journal of the American Association of Grant Professionals, Fall/Winter 2004 Issue, Volume 3 Number 2, pp 37-46, entitled “Grantor-Grantee Relationships – A Research Study”.