About Me

· Buffalo Soldier Storyteller · Author, Fire in Their Eyes · Motivational Speaker · Grant Writer · Chaplain · Minister · Poet Edward G. Udell, Sr. – Your Next Motivational Speaker for getting grants!!! For nearly 50 years, Ed Udell, Sr. has been helping individuals, churches, non-profit organizations, and communities with a simple message: when hurting, disadvantaged people get a helping hand from people willing to help them implement ways to get them on their feet mentally, physically, morally, and financially, they help build allies to help develop America. With his research, his community helps projects, and his presentations, Ed has been building interest in people willing to use their talent, time, treasure, and information that brings together the worlds of rural people, suburban residents, and urban citizens in ways that help everyone have a better understanding of how to work together. Udell is a Community Consultant, helping small non-profits; National Grant Writer Instructor with Urban America USA; Volunteer Chaplain at the Buffalo Soldiers National Museum; helps small churches with outreach and youth work; and is a Diversity Scholar with the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Udell is also a Ford Fellow with the Urban Training Center in Chicago, Illinois. He has an AA degree in Business Administration from Bakersfield Community College; a BA degree in Christian Education, with a minor in Psychology from Whitworth University; a M. Ed. in Educational Administration, with a minor in Counseling from Whitworth’s School of Education; an honorary doctorate from Bell Grove Theological Seminary; and is working on a doctorate in Leadership in Organizational Development from Grand Canyon University. In his first book in an upcoming series, Fire in Their Eyes, Ed writes a novel on how four generations deal with racism from Texas to Oklahoma to California from the 1920s to the 1960s. Future novels deal with the generations from the 1600s to the 1920s, and then from the 1960s to the present. Another series will examine the family’s connections in Africa, the Middle East, and their connections with Ruth, Solomon, David, Abraham, Noah, Ham, and Adam. Ed was introduced to helping people through his mother, Cassie Mae, who began helping people at age 5 who helped her father in ministry building pioneer churches and counseling people. Cassie Mae often brought hurting family members and others into the home, feeding and clothing them, counseling, praying with them, helping them find resources, and doing all she could to help get families and individuals back upon their feet. As a child, Ed often went with his mother to help others, or assisted when they came to the house. Later, he incorporated the principles of primitive Christianity, the work of his grandfather, and the concerns of his mother into a work known as the House of Solomon in Spokane, Washington. When political and religious enemies caused Ed to move Spokane quickly, he continued helping people in Ft. Worth, Texas. Later, he organized his work and it became known as Bridge Ministries, International, in Oakland, California. He continues that work today from Houston, Texas. A former educator and grant researcher/writer, Ed’s message describes how helping people with resources and understanding is the key to making permanent, positive changes in the lives of families and communities in America’s inner cities and urban areas. An enthusiastic speaker who still struggles with Stuttering, Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD), Information Processing Disorder (IPD), and still deals with racial responses with insensitive people, Ed comes across as an inspiration speaker. Ed has consulted with companies, politicians, and non-profits, helping with issues of diversity, racial understanding, grant writing, and community development