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RYASAP, a leading capacity building and community change organization dedicated to young people, young adults and families, is seeking a fund development consultant with exceptional interpersonal skills to develop and implement a fund development plan for the organization.
The Organization
The mission of the Regional Youth Adult Social Action Partnership (RYASAP Catalyst for Community Change) is to be the catalyst in communities to ensure the safe and healthy development of youth, young adults and families. RYASAP has initiatives in health promotion, juvenile justice advocacy and diversion, youth and young adult leadership development, alcohol and drug misuse prevention, educational reform, community small grants, training and best practice replication, and knowledge dissemination. RYASAP is the lead agency for Public Allies of Connecticut, the Connecticut Juvenile Justice Alliance and the Bridgeport Parent Leadership Training Institute. Through local demonstrations RYASAP seeks to foster local, state and national systems reform to give all young people the opportunity for successful development. RYASAP serves the greater Bridgeport region as well as special initiatives throughout Connecticut.
The Position
The Development Consultant is responsible for developing and implementing the fund development plan for RYASAP. Specific responsibilities include:
§ Engage in research to identify new individual, foundation and corporate prospects
§ Work in collaboration with the RYASAP Executive Director and management team to establish annual goals and develop annual fund development plans
§ Write fundraising appeals and letters; maintain regular correspondence with foundations, donors and board members; and oversee fundraising mailings
§ Help plan fundraising events
§ Train and lead other staff to support fundraising and marketing efforts
§ Cultivate and nurture relationships with current and potential foundation, corporate and individual donors
§ Develop a system of tracking all gifts to RYASAP
§ Develop a database and records management system for fund development
§ Develop and manage a portfolio of individual major gift prospects
§ Direct and expand all development activities including board engagement and participation, corporate and foundation giving, major gifts, events, annual appeal and donor stewardship.
§ Develop a Planned Giving Program
§ Coordinate all fund development efforts with marketing and communications
§ Manage and enhance policies and procedures related to resource development and marketing in partnership with the Executive Director and senior management team.
§ Establish and maintain relationships in local, regional and statewide professional associations in fund development
Qualifications and Characteristics Desired
The successful person will be a high energy person of passion and integrity who is dedicated to the mission of RYASAP with a minimum of 5 years experience in fund development. He/she will be a self-starter with an entrepreneurial will to succeed. He/she should have strong written and oral communications skills and is able to make a convincing case for donors to get involved in the mission of RYASAP. This person should be able to speak passionately about the needs and assets of young people and why they would benefit from the services that RYASAP provides. Other specific qualifications include:
§ Belief in and passion for the mission and work of RYASAP
§ Proven success in fund development in attracting new foundation and corporate support as well as new investors and soliciting major gifts
§ Minimum of a Bachelors degree in liberal arts or a related field
§ Experience with personal solicitation of major individual donors
§ Knowledge of Fairfield County and Connecticut foundations
§ Ability to build and sustain quality relationships with a variety of constituencies
§ Experience working with the print and broadcast media
§ Tech-savvy regarding social networking sites and be able to utilize these sites for fund development
§ Works well with a multi-disciplinary and multi-cultural RYASAP Management Team and Board of Directors
§ Successful experience in several fundraising areas -- foundations, corporations, annual giving, and special events
§ Broad familiarity with nonprofit organizations and especially RYASAP that is focused on youth and young adult leadership activities/initiatives
For more information please visit our website at www.ryasap.org. Please excuse our website since it is under construction at this time.
To apply, please submit a proposal with cost estimates and an appropriate resume or work history electronically to Robert Francis at rfrancis@ryasap.org.
The Office of Policy and Management has today released the Request For Proposal for the Nonprofit Collaborative incentive Grant Program. You can access the RFP on either the Department of Administrative Services or the OPM website. Please note the link below. There is $5 million available and the proposal deadline is not until September 22nd. These funds are a result of a CT Nonprofits legislative initiative and are state bonding dollars. Bonding dollars are limited to capital purposes uses. Any nonprofit which collaborates with one or more other nonprofits is eligible. However, those nonprofits having State Purchase of Services contracts will be given higher priority.
CT Monprofits has recommended that their members engage local foundations in conversations related to possible interest in funding consulting, start-up and/or operating costs to facilitate implementation of a specific project.
CT Nonprofits will be happy to forward any questions to OPM in order to seek clarification or an answer.
The RFA for the NCIGP was posted today on the State Contracting Portal.
Wanda L. Dupuy
Office of Policy and Management
860-418-6261
Ron Cretaro
Executive Director
Connecticut Association of Nonprofits
In a groundbreaking experiment, the Journal Register Company, a leading local news and information company and owner of the New Haven Register, this week successfully produced two websites and newspapers – one daily and one weekly - using only free web-based tools and bypassing the Company’s legacy, proprietary systems Article: http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2010/05/20/news/doc4bf55f81af836347755561.txt
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Here's a snip from the website:
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department, your children’s schools, your local community agencies and
organizations, and the important information from other locations
throughout the country that are relevant to you. Our service is built
on the most secure, reliable, and high-speed distribution platform,
ensuring that you receive trusted and immediate, geographically
relevant information. Information is immediately available over your
cell phone by text message, by email, and over the web. Your account
can be customized so you receive the information that matters most to
you. Whether it is where you live, work, or have friends or family
throughout the country, the information is immediately available to you
over your mobile phone, email and computer.
This might be a good way for residents to stay in updated with events that happen in their immediate neighborhood, so I thought I'd share this information.
From: http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/320_publication.pdf
Out-of-school time (OST) programs represent a vital opportunity and resource for learning and development for children and youth. There is growing recognition that OST is important not just for elementary school students, whose parents need supervision for their children
when they are not in school, but also for middle and high school youth, whose participation in OST programs can help keep them connected to positive role models and engaged in their education at a time when many are beginning to disengage from schools.
More information: http://www.ppv.org/ppv/publications/assets/320_publication.pdf
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