Conservation & Habitat Protection Grants

“After several unsuccessful attempts at writing our own grant, we were introduced to Michelle. She took what had been a very painful process and turned it in to something interesting. Her enthusiasm and confidence from Day 1 made me believe we would be successful in landing our Pumper Tender and Fire Station grants."

- Doug Fosburg, Fire Chief, Lewis County Fire District #3, Mossyrock

“After having our grant applications turned down by the WA State Dept. of Ecology, we enlisted Michelle Mazzola’s help. Her enthusiastic and pointed critique of my applications was instrumental in our subsequent applications being funded. We resubmitted four applications and all four were funded!”

- Jim Hill, Manager (retired), Central & Klickitat Conservation Districts, Goldendale

“Michelle is diligent, resourceful and creative. She makes sure that I have the appropriate amount of work on my plate for the grant, so I don’t get overloaded. If there is an obstacle that presents itself, she finds a way around it. And she has an uncanny ability to convert “fire talk” into layman language as evidence by the $1 million SAFER hiring grant we landed!”

- Dave Baker, Fire Chief (retired), Douglas County Fire District #2, East Wenatchee

“Michelle kept us on-task while remaining flexible when we were slammed-with-calls and couldn’t meet promises. It’s great to work with someone who gets-it (and who has landed us several grants).”

- Barb Davis, EMT & Business Manager, Grant County Fire District #8, Mattawa

“After years of rejection letters and being frustrated in NOT being successful, Michelle was able to get us a grant for much needed SCBA’s. Her willingness to listen to what we needed and her ability to pull it all together was amazing. She is easy to work with and her energy, enthusiasm and attitude are contagious!”

- Lance Taylor, Fire Chief, Worden Montana Fire Department

“It was my pleasure to get to know and work with Michelle, who went above and beyond to assist the Town of Concrete in receiving $1,000,000.00 in CDBG funds and an $875,000 legislative appropriation for the construction of a much needed new Fire and Life Safety Building.”

- Judd Wilson, Mayor (former) Town of Concrete

“Michelle enabled and enhanced our ability to plan for our big picture future needs. Her attention to detail, insightful guidance, and ability to mine out the best stories, empowered our department to receive $2 million in grant awards (with another $1.2 million in grants pending). But most importantly the safety of our community and emergency personnel have been greatly improved.”

- Michael S. Kytta, Fire Chief, Riverside Fire Authority, Centralia

“Thanks to Michelle’s expertise and advice, we have been successful in obtaining AFG grants. It’s been an honor to work with her and we couldn’t have done it without her.”

- Brandon Searles, Fire Chief, Mason County Fire District #11, Shelton