Description: Seeking someone who enjoys writing-related projects in spare time.
Ideally can commit 2-4 hours of grant writing per week, but is flexible if there is a grant due soon that requires more time (e.g 5 hours in a day instead of spread out).
Grant Writer will play a crucial role in securing funding opportunities to support our organization’s programs, initiatives, and general operating fund.
Essential Duties:
1. Researching grant opportunities from government agencies, foundations, and other funding
sources that align with DMHS’s mission and programs.
2. Collaborating with program staff to understand project needs and develop compelling grant
proposals and budgets.
3. Writing clear, concise, and persuasive grant narratives, ensuring alignment with funder
requirements and guidelines.
4. Managing the grant application process, including coordinating with internal stakeholders,
collecting necessary documentation, and submitting timely and accurate grant applications.
5. Cultivating and maintaining relationships with funders, including stewardship activities such as
reporting and grant compliance.
6. Tracking and reporting on grant activities, including grant awards, expenditures, and outcomes.
Preferred Qualifications:
1. Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field (e.g., English, Communications, Nonprofit Management) or
equivalent experience.
2. Proven experience in grant writing and grant management, preferably in the nonprofit sector.
3. Excellent writing, editing, and proofreading skills, with the ability to craft compelling narratives
and grant proposals.
4. Strong research skills, with the ability to identify and evaluate funding opportunities.
5. Detail-oriented and organized, with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines simultaneously.
6. Knowledge of grant application processes and grant reporting requirements.
7. Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with internal and external
stakeholders.
No additional volunteer opportunities at this time.
4333 NE 22ND CT, RENTON, WA 98059, US
The mission of Deconstructing the Mental Health System Inc, (DMHS) is to achieve an equitable, anti-racist Mental Health System, through acknowledging how intersectionality and racism impacts any system affiliated with the current Mental Health System. We effect changes and build equity into the Mental Health System through collaboration with community partners in delivery of therapy & wellness services, working towards making access to maintaining licensure status more financially equitable (access to free advertisement, supervision and marketing), providing direct services to our communities for more effective and equitable therapy & wellness delivery. We also provide education to the community on implicit bias, reducing harm to our communities, providing culturally relevant & equitable services, and community healing.
Deconstructing the Mental Health System is a 501(c)3 nonprofit charitable organization status and donations are tax deductible.
Makinie Fortino founded Deconstructing the Mental Health System in 2020, as a means to bring anti-racist therapists & wellness practitioners together to address the mental health system’s racial and financial inequities, through education and other initiatives, such as our Free Therapy & Wellness Program and a Free Directory for Therapists & Wellness Professionals who identify as People of the global Majority.
Feeling whole is our birthright, and we are claiming it.
This is a Virtual Opportunity with no fixed address.
July 24, 2024
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