Fundraising Consultant

Fundraising Consultant

**Overview**:
The To Make a Village Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization located in Winthrop, Massachusetts. Our mission is to support people in Africa as the create early-stage villages near a business entity that provides jobs, to replace migration - internal within a country, or external to other continents - to find opportunities for both work and building a family. In the words of the leaders of Afiri, Cameroon, our first village, “People should be happy where they live.”

Our role is to raise money to award grants in response to proposals developed by the people in the villages we support. We offer assistance in planning and project management when requested, but we are careful to support our partners’ plans, not to impose any agenda upon them.

Our goals for 2024 and 2025 are to raise $600,000 so we have the capacity to make meaningful contributions to Afiri’s growth. In turn, they will provide a locally-led community development model we will bring to other villages in Cameroon, and ultimately to other countries. To date, we have raised $95,000 in cash and pledges.
- **Individuals**: Prospect and engage with friends and colleagues of board members and other supporters.
- **Family Offices and Foundations**: Prospect and pre-qualify organizations that are likely to respond favorably to a request for support, following their preferred method of introductions and requests.
- **Corporations and Larger Foundations**: Develop a list of prospects using various methods (i.e., directories/websites, suggestions from board members and other supporters, news, economic development, and other publications, etc.).
- **Other Sources to be Developed**: Collaborate with the foundation’s executive director and board members to identify additional sources of support and tailor engagement strategies to reach them.

**The fundraising consultant’s responsibilities will include working the president to**:

- Advance the foundation’s current donor database, both in terms of the number of prospects and donors we are tracking (see above list of campaigns), and the methods we use to track them.
- Manage and track a growing number of campaigns to successfully reach or exceed our fundraising targets.
- Become fluent in our development strategy and communicate information that is knowledgeable and enthusiastic about our mission and work in Africa.
- Represent the organization to supporters and potential supporters both as a member of a foundation team and individually as required.
- Balance the needs for administrative and data systems management with fundraising production, including participation in prospecting funding sources, writing and submitting requests and introductions, presentations, and other external activities.
- Report to the president/executive director on long-term projects and daily work.

**Qualifications**
- Three to five years of nonprofit fundraising experience, including development and implementation of campaigns;
- Researching charitable foundations and writing grants;
- Participating in presentations, successful and unsuccessful; and
- Having the ability to work in a start-up organization (wearing many hats, pitching in on new projects, etc.).

**Desired but not required experience**

Additional qualifications include:

- Working/familiarity with international economic development programs
- Experience working in African development programs
- Managing support staff to meet organizational goals
- **Note: This is a paid position.**

**Job Type**: Contract

Pay: $55.00 - $95.00 per hour

Expected hours: 8 - 16 per week

**Experience**:

- Fundraising: 3 years (preferred)

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Winthrop, MA 02152