VentureWell

Rachel Agoglia manages the grant-making process at VentureWell, ensuring the efficient intake, review, and finalization of all submitted student and faculty grant proposals and competition entries. She ensures procedural compliance on funded awards, manages pre and post award processes, and works in close liaison with institution-sponsored research staff. Rachel recruits and supports VentureWell’s external reviewers and works with VentureWell program staff to communicate with applicants, implement grants-related policies, and provide support to existing grantees. Rachel brings to VentureWell over a decade of prior nonprofit management and direct service experience, primarily from her work in Portland, Oregon and Providence, Rhode Island in the areas of hunger, education reform, and nonprofit consultation. She returned to her hometown in Western Massachusetts in 2007 to join the team at VentureWell. Rachel holds a BA in Women’s Studies from Bates College.