Are you a seasoned, community-centric fundraiser whose mission is to organize and channel resources into social movements? Do you have a track record of raising multi-year support from private, public and corporate foundations? Have you built strong relationships with funders of nonprofit work, especially in the environmental and/or agricultural fields in the northeast? Are you confident in pursuing government funding, and have experience in individual giving and/or special events? Farm School NYC (FSNYC) is hiring a full-time Resource Organizer / Fundraising Director to be part of the leadership team for our organization.
Farm School NYC operates within an evolving gift economy. In the words of Robin Wall Kimmerer, “The currency of a gift economy is, at its root, reciprocity.” We offer our mission-aligned programming as a gift to our community, and we ask for their gifts of money, knowledge, time and other resources in return to sustain that mission. Our new Resource Organizer / Fundraising Director position will steward and cultivate our community of foundation, government and individual supporters, so that we can offer our work as a gift to our city.
FSNYC staff is co-creating a less hierarchical, holacratic leadership structure as our current Executive Director steps down in June and our internal team steps up to lead collectively. The Resource Organizer / Fundraising Director will maintain a refined sense of personal, staff and community responsibility and -- alongside the Operations Director and the Programs Director -- will report to the Board of Directors. The Resource Organizer / Fundraising Director will be responsible for creating and executing a diversified fundraising strategy to meet our $1,000,000 annual budget for 2024 and beyond, building upon several already secured multi-year grants and contracts and an early-stage individual giving program.