Volunteer: Grant Writer Jobs

NoSchoolViolence seeks volunteers who can help 1) provide parents, teachers, counselors, mental health professionals, school administrators, researchers and education policy professionals with real insight into how certain adolescent behaviors reveal the likelihood of school violence, and to help develop intervention programs 2) make the best intervention solutions available for schools, 3) create a central national school violence database, 4) provide an app that allows school administrators an academic researchers to explore data elements that have an important role in determining whether a school is statistically vulnerable to violence, 5) research what affect Covid isolation is having on school violence, 6) comparing the language of school shooters who have embraced racist ideologies with the recruitment language of domestic terrorists and providing parents with a dictionary of terms that can be filtered out of their web browsers, 7) study and compare law-enforcement responses to school shootings, and 8) trace the itinerary of all guns used in school shootings to determine what patterns can predict gun use.

NoSchoolviolence is an advanced AI-research driven think tank. We believe that school violence and school shootings form a complex system of social, psychological, cultural, and media forces in play at the moment of a school attack. We are committed to reducing school violence by creating actionable tools that parents, teachers, school administrators, school site psychologists and law enforcement use to anticipate violence before it begins. We apply systems thinking, as well as the latest social science theories, to explore, test and deploy data-informed solutions

NoSchoolViolence.org is looking for grant writers (2-5 hours/week) to join our team. Reporting to the Executive Director and management team, the grant writing team is responsible for using Grant Station and other grant sources to find open grants and to work with the management team in writing and submitting them. This position requires effective writing skills, great attention to detail, and the ability to meet deadlines.

Responsibilities

• Comply with all grant reporting as required by foundation/corporate donors and provide stewardship to current donors with written updates (i.e. monthly newsletters, annual report, etc.).
• Work with Executive Director, management team, and CFO o gather information necessary to report to corporate/foundation funders on grant-funded programs.
• Maintain current records in database and in paper files, including grant tracking and reporting.
• Attend staff meetings and organizational events as needed.
• Conduct the full range of activities required to prepare, submit, and manage grant proposals to foundation and corporate sources.
• Develop understanding of institutional history and programs.
• Perform research on foundations and corporations to evaluate prospects for corporate and foundation grants.

Knowledge and Skills

• Ability to meet deadlines.
• Strong editing skills.
• Strong contributor in team environments.
• Attention to detail.
• Experience with proposal writing and institutional donors.
• Knowledge of basic fundraising techniques and strategies.
• Knowledge and familiarity with research techniques for fundraising prospect research.
• Strong written communication skills; ability to write clear, structured, articulate, and persuasive proposals.
• Knowledge of fundraising information sources.

Qualifications

• Experience as a grant writer or willing to learn
• Able to work well in a team environment, handle multiple assignments and meet deadlines.
• Experience working in deadline-driven spaces

The organization is a federal 501 (c) (3) (EIN 82-1796339) and Washington state 501 (c) (3) (UBI# 603562651). Current partners include Microsoft, Elastic LLC, Alteryx, Washington State Capital Region ESD 113, Seattle Data for Good and the Seattle General Assembly. Conversations are in progress for partnerships with Google, Facebook, UNICEF, the CDC, university adolescent violence programs, and the Gates Foundation. To learn more about the Microsoft-NoSchoolViolence Partnership Program see https //youtu.be/CrK3cXkw02c In 2017. NoSchoolViolencereceived an Elastic Humanitarian Award for its proof of concept search app-The Lantern-https //youtu.be/RTGx3D0ibEo.

This is a volunteer opportunity provided by VolunteerMatch, in partnership with LinkedIn for Good.