>> My name is Katie Martin.
I work for Schreiber Pediatric Rehab Center of Lancaster County.
We're a non-profit organization that helps children with disabilities,
provides therapy services for them.
So occupational, physical, and speech, language therapies.
I was a former client there, decided to come back and work there
in their financial development department as a grant writer assistant.
It is, you know, an honor and a privilege.
Grant writer assistant means that I find grant opportunities, since we're a non-profit
and we don't turn anybody away for their inability to pay for service.
So my job is to find opportunities and funding sources, so we don't have to, you know,
tell people they can't receive our services.
And then I write the grants, too.
And you know, I have someone look them over, obviously.
There's a president of the organization that I help write them for.
But that is my career.
My major at Millersville was speech communications
with an option in public relations.
While I was here, I was on student senate and did those kinds of activities.
But yeah, I'm using my degree, which is always a good thing.
I try to do at least once a week.
One-- I'm sorry, one grant a week, so that, you know,
we're submitting at least, you know, 20 to 30 a year.
And also, another aspect to my job is to find new funding source, so we're not keep going back
to the same well and continue to have people help us, although the community
around Lancaster County has been very generous.
Our clients come from all over central Pennsylvania,
but the local community has been very kind and helpful to us.
Schreiber's been around for close to 80 years, so the more people know about us, you know,
the more funding sources and revenues can open up.