R.M. Stineman

Stine is the Director of Grants and Sponsored Programs. The Grants Office provides support to the College community in pursuit of funding for projects and programs college wide. Grants are essentially instruments through which funders (government entities, foundations, corporations) give money to organizations doing worthy work, often selecting the recipient through a competitive application process. Throughout the College, faculty and staff work hard to persuade grant-makers to fund their respective programs and projects, and many do so with the support of the HCCC Grants Office. R. M. Stineman and Nydia James provide a range of grant-seeking support services to faculty and staff, helping to make sense of often complicated application processes and to craft competitive proposals to convince funders to fund our operations, buildings, programs, services, staff, faculty, and scholarships for students.

R. M. ‘Stine’ Stineman has been working in the nonprofit sector as an executive and consultant for more than 30 years. His career that began in counseling and case management evolved into administrative Executive Director leadership in disability research and advocacy and HIV community planning for the City of KC and then Philadelphia, with national recognition for excellence and innovation. He has delivered more than 50 presentations at national conferences and more than 20 professional publications. His contributions have been recognized by the National Organization on Disability (first prize for community implementation of ADA) and adopted by the US Department of Health and Human Services (as the national model for HIV community planning). Stine has served on more than 20 Boards of Directors including appointment to the President’s Committee for Employment of People with Disabilities during the Clinton Administration. A stage IV cancer diagnosis in 2007 prompted Stine to step away from serving at the helm of actively growing organizations and to serve in more of a consulting role – stepping in as Interim Executive Director for three nonprofits during their executive transition, then conducting focused strategic planning, board development, grants acquisition (his favorite work), program design and implementation, and organizational restructuring for a broad range of mission-driven nonprofits in health care, education, justice, environment, the arts, domestic violence, and international refugee rights. In remission following a second bout of cancer in 2010, Stine decided to continue pursuing his professional work in directing grant-oriented activities for nonprofits in public health, healthcare, and now in higher education. A Kansas farm boy, Stine graduated from the University of Kansas in Rhetorical Criticism, Political Science, and Psychology and as a member of their nationally ranked debate and speech team. He is a lifelong basketball fan of the Kansas Rock Chalk Jayhawks, an accomplished visual and performance artist, political activist, world traveler, and Bodhisattva.