Grant Writing for Nonprofit Supporting Marginalized Communities

Minga Peru is looking for skilled grant writers to help us find and write grants that will help us grow in the fields of climate justice, youth development, women's empowerment, and human rights.

25 years ago, Minga Peru began working within remote Amazon communities to promote social and environmental justice. In those 25 years, we've been amazed at the legacy our community leaders have built for their children, and now their grandchildren.

Here are some of the successes our community partners have achieved:

- 1,200 women are now leaders in communities where the right to participate in group decisions or hold public office was previously not recognized.
- 500 families have created agroforestry farms, 800 bio-gardens, and 35 fish farms, and reforested 100,000 timber, fruit, and palm trees.
- 1,700 educational radio programs in Spanish and indigenous languages ​​have been produced and broadcast based on the more than 60,000 letters sent by listeners who are part of the more than 120,000 listeners in the most remote communities of the Amazon.

Now, we are looking to expand our volunteer base, specifically looking for grant writers who want to help us expand this important work. We hope you'll join us in celebrating our 25th anniversary and help us continue to build on the incredible legacy our community partners in the Amazon have built for themselves and their families. Thank you for being willing to volunteer; we are so grateful to you!

We are a small staff who are very spread thin (like many nonprofits), but we have lots of material to work from for writing grants. In our 25 years, we have partnered with giants like National Geographic and Lindblad Expeditions, and have been the beneficiary of some incredible and incredibly generous organizations such as HelpPeru, the Ashmore Foundation, EMPower, Social Justice Initiative, the Andes Amazon Fund, the Tinker Foundation, and many more.

We have an ever-growing list of figures demonstrating the efficacy of our work, including the number of families and communities who have benefited, the number of farms and gardens created, etc.

We are based in Peru but have a fiscal sponsor (Caf America) in the U.S., which allows us to be a 501(c)3, and all U.S.-based donations are tax deductible.

We do not have a dedicated grant writer on staff, but we have several bilingual staff members and one full-time volunteer who will be available to work with the grant writer.