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American Leadership Forum - Silicon Valley
Vice President of Senior Fellows Network
American Leadership Forum-Silicon Valley (ALF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to building a better Silicon Valley community by joining and strengthening leaders to serve the common good. ALF was founded in 1988 to create a regional network of diverse senior-level leaders across private, public and nonprofit sectors. Graduates of the organization’s one-year Fellows program, called Senior Fellows, now numbering more than 420, form a network that brings together a broad cross-section of leaders committed to building a stronger community, using collaborative leadership skills to identify and deal with complex regional issues, and creating opportunities to work together in ways that make a significant difference to Silicon Valley.
The Vice President Senior Fellows Network’s objective is to steward a vibrant and powerful network that embodies ALF philosophies, financially supports the organization, is at the cutting edge of network best practice, and pushes the boundaries of network potential.
Success metrics will/could include such measures as:
- Consistent success in meeting fund raising goals;
- Increased number of Senior Fellows engaged in ALF community change initiatives;
- Increased percentage of the Senior Fellow network engaged in ALF activities;
- Design and implementation of innovative network engagement techniques.
Responsibilities include the design and implementation of all:
- Fund raising activities;
- Programs and activities meant to connect Senior Fellows with each other and ALF;
- Activities meant to increase Senior Fellows’ dedication to, and support of, ALF and its efforts;
- Activities meant to increase and deepen Senior Fellows’ participation in ALF community change initiatives.
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Arts Council Silicon Valley
Director of Development
Established in 1982, Arts Council Silicon Valley is a private, nonprofit arts organization dedicated to improving the quality of life for Santa Clara County residents by creating and fostering arts and culture throughout the region. As a grantmaking agency, we provide funding and fundraising support services to more than 140 local arts organizations and individual artists. We also provide advocacy, marketing, and support services to more than 600 local arts organizations and strive to help make the arts accessible to our youth. As the official state and local partner with the California Arts Council and the County of Santa Clara, we are now the largest private nonprofit arts council in the state. Since our inception, we have distributed nearly $24 million in grants and services to the arts in our region.
The Director of Development for Arts Council Silicon Valley is responsible for directing and managing the Council’s entire contributed income portfolio including strategizing and implementation of grant writing and related reports for government grants and contracts, foundation and corporate grants, employee workplace giving campaigns, special events and individual gift campaigns both through online and direct mail. The Director of Development works closely with the Executive Director, Deputy Director, Development Committee, program staff and development assistant.
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Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula
Development Director
The Boys & Girls Clubs of the Peninsula is a vibrant, entrepreneurial nonprofit in the heart of Silicon Valley that is committed to making our community a great place for all of our children to grow up. It is looking for a motivated and inspiring development director to join its senior leadership team, which has been together for over five years. This position is a fantastic opportunity for someone who has been in nonprofit development for many years, for someone who has been in sales and wants to move into the nonprofit space, or for someone with natural fund raising skills who is passionate about helping at-risk kids.
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California Forward
Coalitions Director
California Forward is a nonpartisan, public interest effort committed to improving the quality of life for all Californians by creating more responsive, representative and cost-effective government. In 2010, the organization is starting a statewide conversation in multiple venues with various audiences to collaboratively develop proposals to help make California prosper. The project will also dramatically expand the types of individuals and communities engaged in a governance reform movement.
In addition to leading California Forward’s organization-wide coalition building efforts, the Coalitions Director will play a central role in a major civic engagement project in 2010-2011. The Coalitions Director will assume strategic leadership for California Forward’s development, management, and effective activation and utilization of civic coalitions in support of organizational and project goals.
The Fistula Foundation
Development Director - Direct Marketing
Founded in 2000, the Fistula Foundation is now the largest funder for the Hamlin Fistula Hospitals in Ethiopia, the world’s leading fistula treatment centers and is growing. In 2009, the Foundation expanded its mission to help eradicate fistula globally and now funds fistula treatment in nine countries, including Afghanistan, Angola, the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Kenya. The Foundation provides grants to hospitals and doctors who are treating and preventing obstetric and traumatic fistula, injuries that without treatment leave women incontinent and socially ostracized. With surgery, the vast majority of women with the injury can be cured after one operation and returned to a state of health and dignity.
The Development Director reports to and will work in close
collaboration with the Executive Director at the Foundation’s headquarters in Santa Clara, California.
The Development Director will work closely with the Board’s Development
Committee and with the Foundation’s Operations Director and Donor Relations
Manager. Position could be defined to a
¾ FTE depending on needs of ideal candidate. Work hours are flexible. (Full
benefits would apply even to ¾ time position.)
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Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC)
Managing Director
Islamic Cultural Center of Northern California (ICCNC) is an independent, non-profit, community based organization. ICCNC provides a dynamic space that cultivates an exchange of ideas about Islam through art, culture, and education programs. Our vision is to achieve a more compassionate and just society by giving a contemporary voice to diverse perspectives of Islam.
The Managing Director should be a self-starter with a proven track record in attracting and sustaining public and private funding as well as strong communication and community outreach skills. He or she will bring a collaborative style, creativity, and organization skills to support ICCNC’s vision and growth. Candidates should feel comfortable working in a progressive Islamic organization with a diverse cultural and geographic base of support. Candidates should also be able to blend effective business practices with the mission of the organization. This is a full-time, exempt position.
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Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN) Community Organizer
SIREN is a leading immigrant rights organization in the South Bay dedicated to providing immigrant rights advocacy, community education and naturalization assistance to Santa Clara County’s diverse immigrant communities. The mission of SIREN is to empower low-income immigrants and refugees in Santa Clara County through direct services, community education and organizing, leadership development and policy advocacy. We believe that all people regardless of legal status or nationality are entitled to essential services, human dignity, basic rights and protections, and access to full participation in society.
The community organizer develops leaders, engages allies, and activates grassroots support for the organizing activities of SIREN. The community organizer is responsible in working with community members on SIREN’s immigrant rights and social justice campaign strategies with the goal of developing community leadership. The majority of the community organizer time will be in the field conducting outreach to increase civic engagement and empowerment in immigrant rights advocacy in Santa Clara County.
Silicon Valley Community Foundation Vice President of Human Resources
One of the largest community foundations in the nation, Silicon Valley Community Foundation is a comprehensive center for philanthropy. Its mission is to strengthen the common good, improve quality of life and address the most challenging problems. We do this through visionary community leadership, world-class donor services and effective grant making throughout San Mateo and Santa Clara counties.
The vice president of human resources reports to the chief financial and administrative officer and is responsible for providing strong leadership and vision to the community foundation within the human resources function. This person will sit on the leadership team and will become a member of the CEO Cabinet. They will provide recommendations for strategy development and direction/oversight of best-in-class human capital management practices for Silicon Valley Community Foundation. This individual is responsible for driving results by aligning employee performance with the organization’s culture and vision. They are expected to bring a wealth of strategic and operating experience to the executive management team to assist the organization in achieving its goals.
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Silicon Valley FACES
Silicon Valley FACES builds an inclusive and caring community, free of bias and bigotry, by bringing people together through educational programs and serving victims of crime. This non-profit agency is headquartered in San Jose and has been serving Santa Clara County for 45 years. We have an immediate opportunity for a Director of the Witness Victims Assitance (VW) program to join our team to further our mission.
Under the guidance of the Silicon Valley FACES Executive Director and the County's Victim Witness Program Director, the on-site director is responsible for the day-to-day operation of the Santa Clara County Victim Witness Assistance program and associated activities incorporated as part of comprehensive, countywide services for crime victims and witnesses. The agency also provides compensation services to victims and witnesses in San Mateo and Contra Costa counties. The VW Director developes policies and procedures to carry out a wide range of services for crime victims, and creates innovative programs that support victims' rights, and identifies supplemental funding sources and other resources to assure client service needs are met. Working closely with the Executive Director, the VW Director manages a budget of $2M.
Somos Mayfair Development Director
Somos Mayfair is neighborhood-based nonprofit agency working with the immigrant, working-class residents of the Mayfair area of east San José. Formed in 1996, Somos Mayfair’s staff and volunteer community promotores provide direct services to Mayfair families focusing on health and wellness and ensuring our children will succeed in school. At the same time we organize residents to work collectively to build the community’s political power in our relations with the region. In all of our work, we deploy a growing team of volunteer community cultural activists who use culture as a tool to build community, dialogue and action.
The Development Department supports Somos Mayfair’s program and operations. The Director is responsible for strategic planning, implementation, and evaluation of Somos’ fundraising activities. Together with the Executive Director, the Development Director is responsible for raising an annual budget of approximately $1,200,000 from a diverse mix of sources including foundations, government, corporations, fees for services and donations.
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