Fundraising & Stewardship VISTA

The Sanneh Foundation Inc•Saint Paul, MN

3d•Onsite

About The Position

The Sanneh Foundation's mission is to Empower youth, Improve lives, and Unite communities. Sanneh empowers youth by supporting and promoting educational attainment through in-school and after-school support, improves lives by providing programs that strengthen physical health and social and emotional development, and unites communities by advancing diversity, equity, and community well-being. The Sanneh Fundraising and Stewardship Coordinator VISTA will identify opportunities and develop systems to cultivate relationships with donors and supporters that increase resources for Sanneh programs to improve learning outcomes for diverse and low-income youth.

Requirements

AmeriCorps VISTA’s must be 18 years or older.
Have a Valid Drivers License.
Must be a U.S. citizen or have lawful permanent residency.
Desire to work in a growing nonprofit organization with a strong commitment to the mission of helping low-income students earn admission to college and persist toward degree completion.
Expected to embrace our Core Values of inclusive culture, student access, teamwork, impact + growth + innovation and have a significant commitment to the mission of helping all students earn admission to college and persist towards degree completion.
Adaptability, flexibility, creativity and commitment to excellence.
Desire to engage in diversity, creativity and commitment to excellence.
Demonstrated ability to work well with diverse types of people in a team environment.

Responsibilities

Improve donor stewardship by strengthening processes to more effectively utilize Donor Management System
Review Sustainability Materials from Prior VISTA
Learn Sanneh organizational history, become familiar with core programs, activities, and major events.
Become familiar with current donor stewardship processes
Learn current donor management system to understand and improve tracking and organizing donor profiles
Learn how to develop weekly and monthly reports of donor activities and fundraising campaigns
Identify internal and external learning opportunities and professional development resources to increase knowledge related to database management and/or donor stewardship
Build processes to strengthen donor management system usage and successful stewardship practices
Create weekly and monthly donor activity and fundraising reports to increase resource development
Develop technical assistance materials and training for staff on donor management system and related processes
Engage professional development resources to increase knowledge related to database management and/or donor stewardship
Continue to refine processes strengthening stewardship practices and donor management system use.
Continue to create and refine weekly and monthly donor activity and fundraising reports to improve resource development.
Continue to develop technical assistance materials and training for staff on donor management system and related processes
Continue to engage professional development resources to increase knowledge related to database management and/or donor stewardship
Spearhead and/or continue capacity building efforts using enhanced communications strategies to increase youth participation, financial support for programming, and supporter engagement and volunteer recruitment
Continue implementation of strengthened stewardship processes and donor management system use.
Continue weekly and monthly reports of donor activity and create annual fundraising report.
Finish thorough documentation of systems, processes and practices related to donor management system
Develop a handbook of materials which can be utilized by the organization to sustain new systems, process improvements, and practices.