5 Steps to Building Out Your Ideal Grant Team with Interns w/ Marie Gress

Unlock grant team potential with interns in our Instrumentl Partner Webinar. Discover how social work interns can enhance your grant development team, access extra tools at no cost, and potentially become long-term assets.

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Marie Gress - 5 Steps to Building Out Your Ideal Grant Team with Interns

Key Takeaways

Welcome to the "5 Steps to Building Out Your Ideal Grant Team with Interns" webinar! This session is designed to help you understand the benefits of having interns as part of your professional grant development team. By leveraging the skills and knowledge of social work interns, you can establish a highly efficient and effective team of grant proposal learners, proofers, and writers.

​During this webinar, we will also highlight the benefits of using interns, as well as the potential for them to become long-term employees or contractors. Finally, we will showcase how Instrumentl can help you save time and money by streamlining your grants management process.

Winning Grants Together: A Blueprint for Nonprofit Team Success

Takeaways by the end of this Instrumentl Partner Webinar:

  • The PROs of hiring interns as part of your professional grant development team! By leveraging social work interns, you can maintain a team of:
    - grant proposal learners
    - grant proposal proofers, and grant proposal writers
  • ​Interns have access to additional tools at no additional costs
  • ​Strong interns could be hired as an employee or contractor post graduation
  • ​How Instrumentl saves you time and money in finding, tracking and managing your grants all in one place

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Marie Gress is a licensed master-level macro social worker specializing in older adults and technology, working at the intersection of capacity, competency, and community in the aging sector. She is the CEO at Kovir LLC, serves on Washtenaw County’s Commission on Aging, and provides supervision and mentorship to macro social workers in the aging sector.

​Marie started providing grant writing and grant strategy services with the mission to increase the capacity and impact of small non-profits with limited resources, along with low-cost websites and outreach methods. Since then, she crafted a Grant Writing for Novices workbook and has made it available for free on various platforms, created a self-paced online course, and has led grant writing courses and seminars for groups like NASW-MI, NAAP, and Volunteer Florida.

​She enjoys offering mentorship to macro social workers in the aging sector.

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