Ms. Foundation for Women funds intersectional, feminist, movement building and organizing work led by and for women, girls, and nonbinary people of color. We continually strive to improve our work through collaborative learning and reflection. Ms. Foundation is strongly grantee-centered and relationship-driven and is interested in finding ways to further adopt trust-based and care-based philanthropic practices. To this end, our Development Department seeks to not only secure funding for Ms. Foundation, we also hope to increase total funding to the field and better organize our donors to adopt and support trust and care-based philanthropy practices.

Ms. Foundation is seeking a Major Gift Officer to solicit gifts over $5,000, incorporate planned giving into our existing major gifts programs, and support other relationship managers, particularly foundation executives and development leadership in holding major gifts relationships. The ideal candidate will leverage experience organizing for social justice alongside professional expertise on development systems including major gifts. We’re a 53-year old organization that successfully completed a $106 million 50th Anniversary campaign and raises between $6M – $24M annually. We have an exciting combination of existing donor relationships and an opportunity to build new structures.

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Please submit your resume, an example of a donor-facing material you created, a list of references, and your responses to the following prompts either as a cover letter or a short reply in lieu of a cover letter (one to two paragraphs per question) to Sandra Isiofiah at [email protected].

Prompts:

Why are you interested in working at the Ms. Foundation?
Tell us about a fundraising campaign or an individual gift you are most proud of securing in your fundraising career.
What is needed from philanthropy to respond to the current political moment?
What role do development staff have in better supporting intersectional feminist movements?