JUAN KANAQUI

Grantwriter 

Juan Kanagui, M.S. in Fundraising Management and Development Consultant, has over 16 years of experience working as an organizational leader and consultant in nonprofit organizations. In 2024, Juan launched Juan Kanagui Consulting Services (JKCS) and is currently working and fundraising for Bay Area nonprofits. Juan specializes in proposal writing, identifying institutional funding sources, and nonprofit management. Since 2020, he has raised over $6M for Bay Area nonprofit organizations as a consultant with A.M. Crawford Inc (AMC). Before joining AMC, he helped develop foundation partnerships and wrote grants for Mission Graduates and the Mission YMCA in San Francisco. Before that, he worked as an educator, program director, and fundraising professional at various education nonprofits and programs helping first-generation, under-resourced, and immigrant students enroll, matriculate, and graduate from college. 

Mr. Kanagui is bilingual, born in Mexico, and immigrated with his parents to California’s Central Valley at the age of 4. He received his Master of Science in Fundraising Management from Columbia University in 2015 and his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from the University of California at Irvine in 2004. He is the former President of the G.P.A. Greater Bay Area Chapter (2020-21), a Bay Area Men’s Giving Circle and Leadership Council member for the Latino Community Foundation.