National Development Director

OVERVIEW OF THE FOUNTAIN FUND:

The Fountain Fund increases economic opportunities for formerly incarcerated people to improve their lives and remain in their communities. We provide low-interest loans and financial coaching, helping formerly incarcerated people build credit and achieve their self-determined goals. In 2022, we launched sites in New Orleans, La., Richmond, Va., and Philadelphia.

NATIONAL DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR POSITION:

The Fountain Fund seeks an experienced and mission-driven National Development Director (NDD) to play a leadership role in raising capital to deepen our service in current affiliates and future expansion nationwide. The NDD will create and implement a strategy and structure for fundraising that ensures the identification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship of individual, institutional and public investors in multiple geographic locations, and secures funding for further growth. The NDD manages the collaborative involvement in fundraising activities of the Executive Director, the National Board of Directors, affiliate Advisory Board members, an institutional fundraising consultant, and future development staff in delivering on these goals.

Development Strategy and Structure:

• Build and lead a comprehensive development strategy and structure for the Fountain Fund that supports fundraising for multiple affiliates, a growing national office, and future expansion sites
• Research funding models for the nationwide growth of Fountain Fund’s lending and set revenue projections for for organizational and project budgets

Individual Giving: Annual Fund, Major Gifts, Board Giving

• Expand the Fountain Fund’s annual giving program by cultivating, soliciting and stewarding individual donors in multiple affiliate sites, creating a replicable system for individual giving as the organization grows
• Identify and pursue major individual gift opportunities ($25,000 – $1M), directing the involvement of the Executive Director, Board of Directors and Advisory Board members in cultivation, solicitation and stewardship.
• Travel to affiliate sites, as needed, to cultivate, solicit and steward individual donors and institutional funders.

Institutional Funding

• Work in partnership with an institutional fundraising consulting firm (or future staff position) to pursue corporate, foundation and public funder support for each Fountain Fund affiliate and for national operations. Create compelling cases for funding for multiple geographic locations, partnerships, new initiatives, and national growth.

While the Fountain Fund will consider a broad range of backgrounds, the ideal candidate will have the following qualifications/experience: