Grant Writing Support for Nonprofit Promoting Social-Emotional Learning

EQuipOurKids.org is seeking a skilled grant writer to help us raise funds needed to keep our success record of helping American kids develop emotional intelligence and personal life skills that lead to success in school and life and are more needed than ever to help mitigate the youth mental health crisis the U.S. Surgeon General declared. He specifically calls for expanding Social-Emotional Learning (SEL) in all U.S. schools, which is our mission. Our organization plays a significant advocacy role nationally in bringing this emotional intelligence and social skills training into every school's curriculum. We do so based on the evidence that it is the most effective school upgrade and child and youth mental health reform available. We have identified a number of potential funders and seek an experienced and talented grant writer to assist in creating a master grant proposal template and, ideally, help with specific target grants for some of our initiatives. Apart from capacity grants, we also have several difference-making project initiatives that deserve funding. Ideally, you may also have suggestions about where to submit proposals beyond our target list. For those foundations that don't accept grant proposals, we are seeking private meetings with their leaders and national SEL leaders to address the need for expanding SEL. An experienced grant writer might also share wisdom about best practices at these meetings - and then help create any follow-on grant proposals we are invited to submit.