Charlie Biggs
Writer · Editor · Web Designer · Fundraiser

Welcome to my Web site.

I am a writer, editor, Web designer, and fundraiser with a background that includes foundation and major donor fundraising, nonprofit management, freelance web design, scholarly editing, and college teaching.

I am currently serving as Operations Director of the Knoxville Montessori School a nonprofit private school that provides student-centered Montessori education for young people from preschool through 5th grade.

My previous work experience includes the following:

  • Freelance Writer, Editor, Web Designer and Fundraiser; Knoxville, TN - 2000-2009. Clients included the Highlander Center, the Appalachian Community Fund, Save Our Cumberland Mountains, Church Street United Methodist Church, the Knoxville-Oak Ridge Regional Network, and the Department of History, the Department of English, the Initiative for Global Studies, the Medieval and Renaissance Curriculum and Outreach Project, and the Women’s Studies Program at the University of Tennessee.

  • 75th Anniversary Capital Campaign Coordinator and Webmaster, Highlander Research and Education Center; New Market, TN - 2003-2009.

  • Managing Editor, Soundings: An Interdisciplinary Journal; University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN - 1996-2003.

  • Instructor, Department of English and American Studies Program; University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN - 1990-2001.

  • Organizational Consultant; New York, NY - 1980-1984. Clients included the J. C. Penney Foundation, Joint Foundation Support, the New World Foundation, and the Norman Foundation.

  • Director, Eastern Field Office, The Youth Project; Washington, DC - 1974-1979.

A copy of my resume is available here [PDF, 28KB].


© 2009 Charles Biggs. Updated 1/10/10.