Sara Cottingham is an independent grant writer and rural community development consultant based in Morgantown, West Virginia.

Sara has a knack for helping communities leverage demonstrated strengths into viable market opportunities. She has a proven track record of combining forward-thinking feasibility studies with strategic grant writing efforts, which has earned her clients millions of dollars to implement their projects.  

Over more than a decade of consulting, Sara’s plans, feasibility studies, and fundraising efforts have directly fueled downtown redevelopment and trail construction projects, as well as regional recreation initiatives and multi-state economic development projects

In addition to taking on individual studies and grant writing engagements, Sara serves as the contracted Grants Coordinator to the Mon Forest Towns Partnership. Through this role, she coordinates grant writing and project development efforts across the 12 gateway communities to the Monongahela National Forest.