[Foundation-l] Three fundraising job openings

[Jon]

Andrew Gray wrote:
> On 17/04/2008, Jon <scream at datascreamer.com> wrote:
>   
>> I don't understand, did you mean, 8 hours a day * 5 days = 40 HRS/workweek.
>>     
>
> I think his point was that they're all full-time eight-hour-a-day
> jobs, so assuming you don't sleep or take breaks you could technically
> fit three of them into one 24-hour period ;-)
>
> Returning to your original question, though, remember that in the past
> there just wasn't the manpower to handle fundraising. If one person
> got caught up in something there was no-one to take up the slack,
> potential large donors slipped away, etc. There was no-one who did
> fundraising and only fundraising, no dedicated full-time employee who
> could focus on it.
>
> [Consider, for example, the situation with major charitable-foundation
> grants - they tend to bring lots of money, but they also tend to
> require a lot of paperwork in the submission process - so if you can't
> have someone work solidly on it for a period, you're not even in the
> running.]
>
> You can see how this sort of thing tends to spiral downwards when you
> need the donations to pay for the employees!
>
> By the looks of it, the plan is to have a couple of full-time
> fundraisers - one dealing with grants and big donors & one dealing
> with "ongoing" fundraising from readers and small-scale benefactors -
> and a third person who'll handle the back-end administration for the
> whole.
>
> It has the overt assumption that we're expecting fundraising to kick
> up by a good degree - and if we can hire people to work on it
> specifically, I don't think that's an unreasonable projection at all.
> We have a very high-profile name, we have a very well-liked mission,
> and there's a lot of donors out there. If the Foundation has the
> ability to put resources into properly fundraising, it'll pay off
> tenfold, and going about it half-heartedly - by trying to employ just
> one person to take on the whole task - is likely to prove a false
> economy in the long run.
>
>   
Agree here, and this is expected as the foundation grows.  There would 
need to be a separation of duties, these duties, are so different, and 
would be demanding.

Jon