Learn how grant writers for nonprofits work to obtain funding for their organization's services
Learn how grant writers for nonprofits work to obtain funding for their organization's services
Job description of a grant writer.
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Transcript
KATIE MARTIN: My name is Katie Martin. I work for Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center of Lancaster County. We're a nonprofit organization that helps children with disabilities, provides therapy services for them. So occupational, physical, and speech language therapies.
I was a former client there, so to come back and work there in their financial development department as a grant writer assistant is an honor and a privilege. Grant writer assistant means that I find grant opportunities, since we're a nonprofit, and we don't turn anybody away for their inability to pay for a service. So my job is to find opportunities and funding sources so we don't have to tell people they can't receive our services.
And then I write. I write the grants too. And I have someone look them over, obviously. There's a president of the organization that I help write them for. But that is my career.
My major at Millersville was speech communications with an option in public relations. While I was here, I was on Student Senate and did those kinds of activities. But yeah, I'm using my degree, which is always a good thing.
I try to do at least once a week-- or one-- I'm sorry, one grant a week. So that we're submitting at least 20 to 30 a year. And also, another aspect to my job is to find new funding sources so we're not keep going back to the same well and continue to have people help us.
Although the community around Lancaster County has been very generous, our clients come from all over central Pennsylvania. But the local community has been very kind and helpful to us. Schreiber has been around for close to 80 years. So the more people know about us, the more funding sources and revenues can open up.
I was a former client there, so to come back and work there in their financial development department as a grant writer assistant is an honor and a privilege. Grant writer assistant means that I find grant opportunities, since we're a nonprofit, and we don't turn anybody away for their inability to pay for a service. So my job is to find opportunities and funding sources so we don't have to tell people they can't receive our services.
And then I write. I write the grants too. And I have someone look them over, obviously. There's a president of the organization that I help write them for. But that is my career.
My major at Millersville was speech communications with an option in public relations. While I was here, I was on Student Senate and did those kinds of activities. But yeah, I'm using my degree, which is always a good thing.
I try to do at least once a week-- or one-- I'm sorry, one grant a week. So that we're submitting at least 20 to 30 a year. And also, another aspect to my job is to find new funding sources so we're not keep going back to the same well and continue to have people help us.
Although the community around Lancaster County has been very generous, our clients come from all over central Pennsylvania. But the local community has been very kind and helpful to us. Schreiber has been around for close to 80 years. So the more people know about us, the more funding sources and revenues can open up.