Organization Overview

Mission

To prepare Spanish-speaking children for success in school and life by providing superior dual language, multi-cultural early childhood education.

Enduring Vision

Charlotte-Mecklenburg is a place where differences in language and culture are mutually enriching, and all children have greater access to advantage and opportunity.

Overview

Charlotte Bilingual Preschool (CltBP) is developing the model of culturally appropriate, dual language early childhood education for Latinx children and their families in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina, and our nation. We bring our many programs into the service of meeting our mission. Our two-generation model:

• Provides 3- and 4-year-old Spanish-speaking children with superior dual language, multi-cultural preschool instruction in the only 5-star licensed dual language preschool program in North Carolina

• Helps families build literacy and kindergarten-readiness skills for their children from infancy to 5-years-old

• Offers family members the resources they want to become active participants in their children?s early childhood development

• Trains the next generation of professionally certified dual-language early childhood educators

• Expands our reach by building a decentralized dual language early education delivery system to replicate with partner sites and maximize our impact

• Advocates state- and nationwide for our early-childhood education model, our children, and their families. We provide family members and supporters the tools they want to voice their views to policymakers and remove the systemic barriers that have historically prevented them from thriving.

  
  

Opportunity

Building on this momentum,CltBP?s board of directors approved a game-changing strategic plan in early 2020 that includes dramatic expansion over the next ten years, growing its impact to meet the needs of ten times as many children and their families annually. This plan calls for expanding reach through partnerships with other preschools, evolving the current preschool into a full-day early learning center, and developing a dual language early learning workforce

The Role

Reporting directly to the Chief Advancement Officer, the Grants Officer establishes and supports long-term relationships that build CltBP?s financial capacity to meet its goal of serving 1,500 children by 2030. The Grants Officer cultivates strong and meaningful relationships with funding organizations whose interests are well aligned with CltBP?s mission and programs. The Grants Officer is part of the Advancement Team that includes the Chief Advancement Officer, Major Gifts Officer, Advancement Associate, Annual Giving Manager and Marketing and Communications Officer. This is a full-time salaried position.

Job Responsibilities

Research

• Manages the CltBP prospective funder list by methodically researching foundations and corporations and identifying funding opportunities that align with CltBP mission and program objectives.

• Identifies sufficient renewing and prospective funding opportunities to meet annual grant submission and financial goals. This research includes:

• Following local business and nonprofit news to identify new prospective funders and partners

• Investigating funding opportunities shared by Board and friends of CltBP

• Monitoring opportunities through funder databases and online resources

• In coordination with other Advancement Team Members, initiates and stewards relationships with foundation and corporate philanthropy officers. Communicates regularly about CltBP accomplishments, challenges, and ambitions with former, current, and prospective granting organizations and corporations.

  
  

Writing

• Prepares grant submissions by developing viable concepts with appropriate team members, gathering data, drafting narrative, and obtaining approvals

• Working with appropriate Team Members, maintains a comprehensive understanding of CltBP programs, budgets, and outcomes so all grant submissions represent CltBP mission and prioritize budget-relieving opportunities. Thoroughly understands current research related to CltBP?s mission, including data regarding early childhood education, immigration, the Latinx community, and the local Charlotte region.

• Maintains facility with and use of external data and research that support CltBP programs and grant concepts

• Consistently meets submission deadlines by managing priorities and target dates for data gathering, writing, review, approval, and transmittal

• When grant submissions include meetings with funders, develops prep documents and coordinates prep meetings to assure Team Members understand granting organization?s priorities, grant guidelines, concept details, and meeting goals

Award Management

• When a grant is awarded, immediately communicates the grant terms, requirements, and funding allocation to all CltBP Team Members who share reporting responsibilities

• For all grants awarded, thoroughly understands reporting requirements, and manages the CltBP calendar of grant-reporting deadlines. With appropriate Team Members, proactively develops processes to assure data is available and reported when required.

• With other members of the Advancement Team, conceptualizes and produces letters, reports, presentations, and other materials that compellingly illustrate the impact of each award on CltBP?s work and on the community

• Assures all grant organizations are personally thanked and appropriately recognized on the CltBP website, at events, and in all Advancement assets, including newsletters and annual reports