Grant Writer
Public Conversations Project (Now Essential Partners)
Watertown, Ma
COMMUNICATIONS, WRITING, AND EDITING• Demonstrated high level of adaptability and organization while successfully coordinating sensitive communication between board chair, board, and staff.• Delivered comprehensive writing and editing support, including final copyedits, for organization’s Newsletter, eNews, brochures, and literature circulated to 5000 supporters.• Managed correspondence, ghostwrote op-eds and Newsletter columns while also establishing document management system for Board Chair.• Instigated digitization and archival project for organization’s landmark early project work.• Selected to organization’s strategic planning team.• Primary collaborator with Communications Manager in web site revamp.• Managed and coordinated annual appeal based on analysis of previous donation history.GRANT WRITING• Coordinated the development, writing, and submission of funding proposals and grant applications while introducing a restructured grant writing system in preparation for migration to Saleforce.• Met diverse needs of program staff for fundraising support; implemented new system to support development of marketable programs.• Maintained system for tracking and reporting on grant funding with the ability to report regularly on the status of past, pending and future applications.• Provided funders with updates and reports on program work.• Created GuideStar-affiliated online resource to enhance donor attention to organization projects and goals.RESEARCH• Identified potential individual, state, corporate and foundation funding sources using specialized databases.• Performed comprehensive multi-media information processing and analysis of listservs, newsletters, and online and print journalism to ensure organization remained contemporary.• Provided full data-management support for Board chair, including creation of database for strengthening and expanding board and database of potential strategic partners.