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9 people are interested
Grant Coordinator
ORGANIZATION: Moving Health
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9 people are interested
Okoa is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit dedicated to connecting women and mothers to the healthcare they need by developing practical, sustainable, and community-centered solutions to help them give birth safely. Our mission began when a rural community in Tanzania was searching for a way to save their mothers and young women; rates of maternal mortality were high, and clinics and hospitals were far away and difficult to get to. The engineering team, with the input of the community, designed a motorcycle ambulance to take their pregnant women to a hospital or clinic to give birth with a skilled birth attendant. Our ambulances are specifically designed to operate on nearly unnavigable rural roads and intentionally assembled so that all repairs can be made within the community, and at both of our country hubs we strive to provide meaningful jobs in our workshops.
Our objective is to improve maternal health outcomes by manufacturing ambulances that connect women to essential healthcare, particularly for childbirth but also for pre- and post-natal care. Our ambulances were designed to quickly and affordably bring women in labor to the closest healthcare option with the goal of increasing the percentage of births attended by a skilled health professional and thereby decreasing maternal mortality rates.
Of course, it’s not only soon-to-be mothers that take our ambulances; by the end of this year, we will provide as many as 82,000 people across our two posts with access to life-saving healthcare. As we grew, we realized the need for general emergency transport, and so provide our services for the ill and injured as well.
The responsibilities of the Grant Coordinator are to help us maximize our impact by helping us with the following:- Conducting prospect research for grants, foundations, and major donors
- Helping to improve our organizations success rate by finding opportunities that match our mission
- Helping to evaluate our chance at success of receiving the grant
- Assembling and organizing grants, proposals, budgets, and presentations
- Maintaining calendar to ensure timely submission of letters of inquiry, proposal deadlines, and reports.
More opportunities with Moving Health
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
About Moving Health
Location:
23 Drydock Avenue, Boston, MA 02210, US
Mission Statement
To connect families to healthcare when they need it most.
Description
Since 2016, Moving Health (formally The Okoa Project) has been redefining emergency transportation by addressing geographically neglected areas to address the health crises that these communities face every day by providing opportunities for safer, faster emergency care. Unlike other companies, our primary goal is to use human centered design to create solution that the communities actually want, making our solution more sustainable, cost effective, and reliable than alternative options.
Our work fills a desperately needed gap by providing sustainable, low-cost emergency transportation in areas that do not have any. Not only do our ambulances save lives, but our intersectional approach to global health and technology allows us to capture our impact with precision and create opportunities through learning and innovation.
CAUSE AREAS
WHEN
WHERE
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
March 8, 2021
SKILLS
- Customer Acquisition
- Reporting & Dashboards
- Data Entry
- Grant Writing / Research
GOOD FOR
- People 55+
REQUIREMENTS
- 10 hours a week