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The Institutional Fundraising Specialist (IFS) works directly with My Philanthropy Team’s client partners on prospect research, proposal development, report writing and relationship management. The IFS manages a portfolio of ongoing client relationships, often serving as a client’s primary foundation, corporation, and government relationship manager. The IFS develops strategy for cultivation, stewardship and solicitation activities, provides proactive support to clients to strengthen and deepen relationships with funders, ensures that work product is of the highest caliber, and that all deadlines are accurately tracked and met. The IFS is a skilled fundraising professional with the ability to identify opportunities for additional MPT resources to be brought in to help clients meet their fundraising goals.

Sterling Search Inc. has been exclusively retained to recruit for the Senior Director of Development (SDOD) for Glaucoma Research Foundation.

The DIA will enhance engagement, philanthropy, and awareness of SBMA.

As a Sr. Advisor - Principal Gifts, you will play a critical role in our fundraising efforts. You’ll be responsible for prospect qualification, cultivation, and solicitation of complex gifts and major outright gifts. Your work will directly contribute to our mission’s success. Develops, implements, and manages fundraising and awareness strategies designed to successfully achieve priorities such as building advisory councils, high-value volunteer committees, giving circles, and venture capital and other skills-based volunteerism. Develops and executes short- and long-term relationship strategies regarding key financial individuals and/or corporations, and foundations that includes on-going strategies for engagement including a targeted dollar and deliverable goals for their support. Responsible for ongoing contacts with at least 200 high-potential individuals and/or corporations. Collaborates across organization to facilitate transformational giving and volunteerism opportunities within the St. Jude mission.

This is a remote opportunity for a candidate to work from home in the Northern California area.

The mission of Mount Tamalpais College is to provide an intellectually rigorous, inclusive Associate of Arts degree program and college preparatory program, free of charge, to people at San Quentin State Prison; to expand access to quality higher education for incarcerated people; and to foster the values of equity, civic engagement, independence of thought, and freedom of expression. Mount Tamalpais College is a national leader in providing quality higher education opportunities to incarcerated people and in expanding access to higher education within California’s prison system and nationwide. In recognition of our work, the organization was awarded the 2015 National Humanities Medal by President Obama.

The last several years have been a period of tremendous growth for Mount Tamalpais College. After twenty years of operating as the Prison University Project, a nonprofit organization supporting the College Program at San Quentin, in 2022 PUP changed its name to Mount Tamalpais College and became an independent liberal arts college. This process required the building out of extensive institutional infrastructure, including in the realms of institutional effectiveness and research, data management, information technology, and library services, among other critical systems.

The next several years will entail building on this progress by further refining programmatic and operational systems, building out critical staffing, expanding programs, and ensuring the long-term sustainability of the college by expanding its significant donor base, and increasing its financial reserves.

As a member of the Executive Team, the Chief Development Officer (CDO) will provide creative leadership and strategic vision to the College’s development efforts, as it embarks on its next stage of significant growth. The CDO will work closely and collaboratively with team members across MTC to develop and execute a robust plan to extend its network and substantially increase its resources. The CDO will maintain a significant portfolio of the college’s highest capacity donors and will be primarily responsible for the securing of major gifts. MTC’s projected budget in 2025 is $5 million. Approximately ⅔ of this revenue is anticipated from individual gifts.

Functional expert/manager responsible for developing & managing group (market/region) and/or broad-based strategic relationship management plans, programs & events designed to strategically identify & cultivate prospects, students & alumni in meaningful ways

As our Director of Individual Philanthropy, you will manage a portfolio of high-net-worth donors while expanding and diversifying our funder base. Every day you will build relationships with external partners to develop connections related to our programmatic and fundraising goals.

The Fund Development Director will develop and implement a comprehensive fundraising plan, manage a portfolio of major donors, optimize our fee-for-service strategies, oversee all aspects of our fundraising operations and execute all necessary marketing and brand identity efforts. The Fund Development Director will actively cultivate relationships with key funders in Northern California and the Bay Area, drawing on their experience and network to propel CHI's growth.

LCV is hiring a Director of Development Partnerships focused on major donor engagement in the Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain West regions, who will be a part of a fundraising team with ambitious revenue and program goals. The Development department’s fundraising program engages major donors for the LCV family of organizations including LCV, LCV Action Fund, LCV Victory Fund, and LCV Education Fund, and raises money for political candidates through our GiveGreen program. 

The Director of Development Partnerships joins an extremely skilled, hard-working and growing development team, which is building the budget, power, and effectiveness of our family of organizations. This position is responsible for raising funds from individual and small foundation donors at four-, five-, and six-figure levels. Responsibilities include strategically identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donors. The Director of Development Partnerships will cultivate and solicit donors on their own and support the work of key senior staff and board members in their respective regions. Qualified candidates will have significant experience with methods and approaches to major gifts fundraising that encourages philanthropic involvement among communities of color. 

Come join Children’s Fairyland as our Annual Fund Manager! This position is an excellent opportunity for someone who is passionate about children, education, and our local Oakland community. The Fairyland team is a diverse group of dedicated individuals committed to creating a magical fantasy world for young children to create, imagine, play, and learn!

A successful Annual Fund Manager is instrumental in all aspects of Fairyland’s annual giving program and responsible for managing donor relationships with individuals primarily giving $1,000 or less. The Annual Fund Manager is focused on identifying, soliciting, and stewarding Fairyland’s one-time, renewing, and recurring individual donors. Reporting to the Senior Director of Philanthropy, this role works closely with members of the Membership and Development team to create an inclusive, celebratory culture of philanthropy, while increasing investment, strengthening engagement, building communications, and maintaining a robust database.