Humanities for Life Summer 2022: Grant Writing Internship at Student Arts Foundation
**IMPORTANT** - This is a Humanities for Life Internship offered by a grant-funded program through the Humanities Center. It pays a $5000 stipend for each cohort intern. Find application deadlines, information, updates & details on this Informational link here. Also through the HFL website here.
STUDENT ARTS FOUNDATION INC.
A non-profit organization established to support the educational and artistic advancement of students. Our mission is to provide students of all levels with opportunities and resources to support their creative interests. Our goal is to create a positive, reliable support system for artistically career-minded students who look to our organization for guidance and/or educational subsidies.
Grant Writing Intern
As a grant writing intern for the Student Arts Foundation, your primary responsibility will be to assist with the identification of appropriate grantors and the execution and submission of grant requests. Student Arts Foundation is a newcomer to the grant-writing process. In order to continue this work, we need interns capable of researching funding opportunities within fixed guidelines, initiating and maintaining contact with foundations, and writing grants for eligible funding. This would require an intern with strong research, writing, and analytical skills. Specific duties include, but are not limited to:
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Prospect identification, research, proposal development and writing in conjunction with faculty, staff and volunteers. Accurate and timely production of final proposals
-
Initiate and maintain relationships with grantors. Track and document communications Assist with updating and maintaining Daily Work donor database
-
-
QUALIFICATIONS:
Experience: Previous experience in research and/or grant writing preferred. Understanding of or prior work/volunteer experience in a non-profit organization is a plus.
Skills/Abilities: The qualified candidate will have excellent writing, verbal, proofreading, editing, phone, and organizational skills. Ideal candidates will also be flexible team players, self-motivated and detail-oriented individual with strong interpersonal skills, customer service orientation, excellent phone manner, and communication skills, ability to prioritize and work well under deadline. Computer aptitude and Microsoft Office experience required.