Specifications include, but are not limited to: The purpose of the Technical Writer Consultant is to provide grant writing, technical assistance, and support to community-based and grassroots organizations that actively participate in the Philadelphia Drug Free Communities Initiative. Develop a process to guide community-based and grass-root organization/lead agency on how to collect data sets in response to complete federal applications. ▪ Provide technical assistance to support writing the proposal and review of required documents for application submission. ▪ Build system-level capacity that assists community organizations in the development of a mission and vision statement that merges community’s needs within the city social services that is in alignment with the federal application. ▪ Prepare coalitions to effectively submit grant applications to compete effectively for federal funds provided by the Office of National Drug Control Policy’s Drug Free Communities Support Program. ▪ Expand the number of Coalitions that successfully apply for the DFC grant opportunity. ▪ Increase the number of Coalitions that are awarded the DFC grant. ▪ Increase the number of existing Coalitions who successful receive additional years of DFC funding.