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7 people are interested
Grant Writer for Non-Profit Organization
ORGANIZATION: BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES
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7 people are interested
Responsibilities and Duties
The Grant Writer will:
- Communicate effectively across BPB in order to investigate and understand needs, requests and opportunities.
- Develop templates and tracking mechanisms so as to standardize and streamline the grant-writing process.
- Search for potential grant opportunities.
- Prepare proposals by determining concept, clarifying needs with opportunities, gathering and formatting information, writing drafts, and obtaining approvals.
- Write, revise, and edit drafts including executive summaries, conclusions, and organization credentials.
- Maintain quality results by using templates, following proposal-writing standards including readability, consistency, and tone and maintaining proposal support databases.
- Meet proposal deadlines by establishing priorities and target dates for information Communicate effectively across BPB in order to investigate and understand needs, requests and opportunities.
- Develop templates and tracking mechanisms so as to standardize and streamline the grant-writing process.
- Perform external research and matching.
- Manage relationships and improve processes.
- Communicate authentically and effectively with existing and proposed foundations.
- Improve proposal-writing results by evaluating and re-designing processes, and approach.
Skills and qualifications
The Grant Writer needs to have:
- Appropriate level of experience in grant writing, prospect research, general fundraising or comparable and transferable skills acquired in a professional setting.
- Marketing knowledge and success stories in grant-writing.
- Evidence of strong presentation, written communication, graphic design, layout, and technical documentation skills.
- Problem solving, process improvement, and strategic planning skills.
- Deadline-orientation.
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About BUILDING PEACEFUL BRIDGES
Location:
1400 Patriot Blvd, P.O. Box 535, GLENVIEW, IL 60026, US
Mission Statement
Building Peaceful Bridges (BPB) is a nonprofit organization supporting people of all faiths whose mission is to foster multicultural relationships by assisting in the integration of newcomers into American society and educating communities on the challenges facing newcomer populations through their stories. BPB "bridging the hearts and minds of all people."
Description
www.buildingpeacefulbridges.org
Building Peaceful Bridges is a nonprofit organization supporting people of all faiths whose mission is to foster multicultural relationships by assisting in the integration of newcomers into American society and educating communities on the challenges facing newcomer populations through their stories. BPB carries out its mission by:
- Assisting legal refugees to integrate into American culture by financial and non-cash donations, sponsoring and mentoring families, and partnering with other organizations
- Educating communities on the challenges refugees face during resettlement and fostering multi-cultural relationships that provide the foundation for a deeper understanding, acceptance, and support
VOLUNTEER:
Mentoring/Sponsoring Refugee Families
BPB assists in family resettlement by donating financial and non-cash assistance, establishing a community safety net, recurring monthly visits, assisting in the citizenship process, and building trust, hope, security, and empowerment.
Cultural Educational Events
BPB sponsors speaking events in local venues to foster awareness of the resettlement process as well as to educate audiences regarding refugee stories.
Pick-up and Delivery of Non-Cash donations
BPB brokers donations of food, furniture, clothing, and other household items to families during resettlement.
CAUSE AREAS
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This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
DATE POSTED
December 28, 2022
SKILLS
- Technical Writing
- Fundraising
- Grant Writing / Research
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- Background Check
- Must be at least 18
- -Give between 2 and 10 hours a week (or more if interested) and commit to 6+ months.
- This is mainly a virtual opportunity, but the organization is based in the Northern Suburbs of Chicago, IL.