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About Us 
WAMO Workshops was founded by Richard Macauley shortly after he graduated from the Grantsmanship Center in Los Angeles and returned home to Las Vegas where he was working as a youth program director for the Las Vegas YMCA.
Do you remember the motion picture "The Candidate" starring Robert Redford? Redford's character, a candidate running for political office, endured the seemingly endless campaign with all its convoluted and compromising situations and machinations. On election night, Redford's character exits the campaign headquarters after his acceptance speech, enters his limo, and asks his campaign manager, "Now what?"
Upon Macauley's return to the YMCA, he sat down at his IBM electric typewriter (pre-word processing), put in a blank sheet of paper, reviewed the overwhelming amount of hypothetical information he had just learned, and found himself asking, "Now what?" Rather than starting to write a grant, he started writing the curriculum for Ways-And-Means Opportunities (WAMO) Workshops.
"There has to be a way to apply this information within the workshop," he reasoned, "and turn out a funding 'candidate' with a firm checklist of action steps in hand, a list of donor prospects for grants and corporate sponsorships, a complete applicable funding development plan, and a rough draft grant proposal (admittedly with numerous blanks to fill in, but not a blank sheet, for Pete's sake!)."
Macauley started working with self-professed dysfunctional local Chambers of Commerce referred from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and with Junior Chambers (Jaycee Chapters nationwide). He got a sponsorship from Trans World Airlines who flew him free, and WAMO 'took off' from there.
Two years ago, he conducted his 105th two-day funding workshop which featured his working with his 1,000th nonprofit organization: the Rock Pile Chapter of Incarcerated Vietnam Veterans of America at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center in Carson City, Nevada -- notably a captive audience.
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