Katelynn Martin Email & Phone Number

Columbus, OH, US

• Crafted and submitted grant requests and won more than $950,000 worth of funding from local and national corporations and foundations.
• Managed applications for corporate sponsorships for OhioHealth fundraising events and wellness programs.
• Compiled prospect research data master list and utilized Raiser’s Edge database system to track all constituents.

• Promoted to Grants & Compliance Manager after increasing Homeport’s private foundation contributions by 48% in one year as a Grant Coordinator.
• Develop 40 proposals annually from foundation, corporate, and government sources.
• Manage reporting, compliance and contracts for a portfolio of 80 grants.
• Maintain Homeport’s profile in Guidestar, Better Business Bureau, and other philanthropy publications.
• Utilize Raiser’s Edge database system to track and maintain constituent records and generate acknowledgement letters for corporate and individual funders.

Columbus, Ohio Area

• Produce clear and compelling proposals, related budgets, and letters of inquiry for government, corporate and foundation grants.
• Research, identify, and recommend grant opportunities from foundation, corporate and governmental sources that match the goals and objectives of Homeport.
• Build strong relationships with program staff in order to understand Homeport’s complex funding priorities to match funding sources with program delivery.
• Coordinate and monitor calendar of Homeport’s active grant portfolio of 65 grants.

Columbus, Ohio Area

--Engage families in outreach to provide learning assessments for 2 to 4 year-old children to make sure they are developmentally on track for kindergarten.--Work with Homeport’s marketing team to create and maintain a resident newsletter for more than 5,000 Homeport residents.--Attend bi-weekly marketing meetings to discuss newsletter production and to.

--Conduct an after-school program, assisting up to 35 Somali students ranging in age from 6 to 17 to complete their daily homework and improve their reading and writing skills.--Organize and operate Summer Character Camp for children from June through August teaching lesson plans from the Character Counts curriculum.--Designed and edited an original.

Columbus, Ohio Area

--Facilitated Thinking for a Change classes for 15 ex-offenders twice a week in which attendants learned cognitive behavior change, social skills, and problem solving to discourage future criminal activity.--Completed 1700 hours of service as a trained Benefit Bank counselor and helped over 300 clients apply for food assistance and Medicaid.--Assisted.

Athens, Ohio

--Co-edited and wrote articles for Gatherings, the quarterly magazine of Alden Library.--Served as the Copy Editor for the Journal of Academic Librarianship.--Performed administrative duties including communicating with library personnel and external patrons via phone and email media

Columbus, Ohio Area

--Wrote several articles for the print and web edition of CityScene magazine.--Edited feature articles and final layouts of the CityScene Media Group’s six publications.