Help Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind continue to grow.
ORGANIZATION: Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc
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Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind is the most cost effective guide dog school in the US, placing seeing eye dogs in homes to clients completely free of charge. Recent growth (40 dogs placed in 2017) is stretching our resources. Freedom is searching for a volunteer Grant Writer to help discover and solict new funding sources to allow us to continue to grow and place even more well trained guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired.
The position is remote and home based, with expectation of working closely on a regular frequency with the Director and other PT grant writers.
Preferences given to volunteers with previous grant writing experince in the non-profit sector.
Business physically located in upstate New York.
Here is an opportunity to apply your knowledge and grant writing skill set for truly meaningful results to those with visual and physical disabilities.
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About Freedom Guide Dogs for the Blind, Inc
Location:
1210 HARDSCRABBLE RD, CASSVILLE, NY 13318, US
Mission Statement
Freedom Guide Dogs is a 501 (c)3 non-profit organization based in Upstate New York, which breeds, raises, trains and places guide dogs with the blind and visually impaired through a distinctive program called Hometown Training TM. Freedom Guide Dogs' services are available to people in the Eastern United States at no cost.
Description
Freedom Guide Dogs is a non-profit organization, located in Cassville, NY, that breeds, raises, trains and places guide dogs for the blind and visually impaired through Hometown Training TM.
Freedom Guide Dogs was founded in 1992 by husband & wife team Eric & Sharon Loori. As experienced guide dog trainers, they took their knowledge of a new home-based style of training and applied it to Labrador Retrievers.
Traditional guide dog schools use a facility-based method of training where the blind person must go to the school for a 3-4 week period to train with a guide dog. When training is complete the blind student brings the guide dog home with them.
Hometown Training TM allows us to bring a trained guide dog directly to the blind person’s home where we train with them for 2-3 weeks in their own, familiar environment. This is all at no cost to the client.
This program has proven to be very successful. Today Freedom has more than 120 clients in ten states throughout the Northeast because of their Hometown Training TM program.
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This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
January 8, 2018
SKILLS
- Fundraising
- Business Development & Sales Management
- Grant Writing / Research
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Orientation or Training
- 5-10 hours per week
- Previous non-profit experience