Margaret Miller

For more than three decades, my targeted writing skills have helped companies, colleges, agencies, and non-profit organizations of all sizes achieve success. Here is some of my representative work. To view more, click Writing samples.

Prison Fellowship proposal

As the senior grant writer at Prison Fellowship, I created proposals like this one for individuals and foundations who shared founder Chuck Colson's vision o...

Enjoy, Ponder, Lend a Hand

Creative Living

Published articles

Here are some creative ideas about ways to satisfy our God-given appetites that will leave you feeling restored and refreshed.

Houston Food Bank proposal

Grant Proposals

This proposal requesting support for an innovative a new food bank in Houston, Texas tells the story of how redefining the problem of hunger has changed the ...

Delta Waterfowl Research Report

Reports

In addition to writing grant proposals for Delta Waterfowl, I created reports for donors like this one that describes our many environmental research project...

Starting Over . . . again and again

The Trinitonian

Published articles

A life-changing move from San Antonio, Texas to New York City prompted me to write this column in Trinity University's campus paper about starting over.

We Are One Trinity | video script

Trinity University

Videos

I scripted this fundraising video to support student scholarships at Trinity University. This brief fast-paced, student-centered film is the result.

Baker Institute brochure

Brochures + Direct Mail

I produced this membership brochure for The Baker Institute, a nonpartisan, data-driven think tank located on the campus of Rice University in Houston, Texas.

Art In Embassies

Brochures + Direct Mail

The US Department of State engaged to me to create copy for their first extensive marketing publication highlighting the world-class Art In Embassies program...

Hello, Houston!

Creative Living

Published articles

As a native Houstonian, I was contacted by Creative Living magazine to write about my hometown for their 'American Traveler' column.

Join the RenGen

Creative Living

Published articles

For this article, I interviewed Patricia Martin, whose book RenGen explores the emergence of a generation on the verge of a second renaissance.

Minority Rule - How administrators at EPCC meet the needs of a multicultural population

Community College Journal

Published articles

During my time teaching English at El Paso Community College, the school was awarded a large grant for successfully meeting the needs of its largely Hispanic...

How Am I Doing? Even in a success-oriented culture, "making the grade" can be hard to define

Creative Living

Published articles

This article explores the concept of success in a culture that values it over almost everything else and illustrates a number of ways it can be defined.

Go Find Art!

Houston Family Magazine

Published articles

As Communications Director for the Houston Arts Alliance, I wanted to educate the community about the city's vast public art collection. After interviewing s...

The Perfume of Chalkdust

Creative Living

Published articles

After a 20-year sabbatical, I returned to teaching part-time. Houston Community College needed an adjunct professor in the English department to teach exposi...

Holiday billboard

KSBJ

Ads

Christian radio station KSBJ-FM chose this headline I created for a Christmas billboard on one of Houston's busiest highways. It was awarded a Citation of Ex...

A Conversation with Morten Lauridsen

Chorus America

Published articles Interviews

As a singer and a member of Houston Masterworks Chorus under the direction of Craig Hella Johnson, I was honored to interview Grammy award-winning composer M...

Strategies for Self Motivation

Creative Living

Published articles

What do you really want? What's keeping you from going after it? Most of us could name a dozen things we want to accomplish and--if pressed--could also list ...