8 executive director jobs found

Organization Overview  GreenLight Fund is a national nonprofit with a local focus that partners with communities to create opportunities for inclusive prosperity.  We facilitate a community-driven process that matches the local needs of individuals and families not met by existing programs, to organizations with track records of success elsewhere. Working with communities, we identify, invite in and launch proven organizations, providing collaborative support so they can quickly take root and deliver change. Everything we do is designed to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity all too often rooted in racial inequities. Our impact increases exponentially as we address one specific, community-identified need each year, in each GreenLight site.  To date, we have brought 63 evidence-based portfolio organizations across 14 sites, invested $41M, and attracted an additional $364M from other funding sources, reaching nearly 1.3M individuals and families this past year...

Executive Director Reports To: Board of Directors Location: Sacramento, CA Status: Full-Time, Exempt Apply By: 5/15/26 Youth Forward seeks a compassionate, courageous, and deeply committed leader to serve as its next Executive Director. This is an opportunity to helm a dynamic nonprofit advocacy organization working at the intersection of youth leadership, public policy, public health and community power-building in Sacramento at a pivotal moment for underserved children, youth and families. The Executive Director will advance the organization’s mission, strengthen its public presence, lead policy initiatives, ensure financial sustainability, and manage staff and organizational operations all with youth voice, leadership, power, and partnership at the center. The Executive Director will work closely with the Board of Directors and represent the organization to policymakers, funders, partners, and the public. As Youth Forward heads into a new chapter, approaching a decade...

Organization Overview  GreenLight Fund is a national nonprofit with a local focus that partners with communities to create opportunities for inclusive prosperity.  We facilitate a community-driven process that matches the local needs of individuals and families not met by existing programs, to organizations with track records of success elsewhere. Working with communities, we identify, invite in and launch proven organizations, providing collaborative support so they can quickly take root and deliver change. Everything we do is designed to remove barriers to inclusive prosperity all too often rooted in racial inequities. Our impact increases exponentially as we address one specific, community-identified need each year, in each GreenLight site.  To date, we have brought 63 evidence-based portfolio organizations across 14 sites, invested $41M, and attracted an additional $364M from other funding sources, reaching nearly 1.3M individuals and families this past year...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The California Endowment (The Endowment) is a private, statewide health foundation established in 1996 whose mission is to expand access to affordable, quality health care for underserved individuals and communities and to promote fundamental improvements in the health status of all Californians. We envision a California that leads the nation as a powerful and conscientious voice for wellness, inclusion, and shared prosperity. Headquartered in downtown Los Angeles, the Endowment has regional offices in Sacramento, Oakland, Fresno and San Diego, with staff working throughout the state. We challenge the conventional wisdom that medical settings and individual choices are solely responsible for people’s health. We believe that health happens in neighborhoods, schools, and with prevention. We are seeking a visionary and collaborative Vice President of Strategic Communications and Narrative (VP of Strategic Communications and Narrative) to play a...

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The Council of Michigan Foundations (CMF) – a nationally recognized philanthropy infrastructure organization – seeks nominations and applications for its next President and CEO . Stewarding a historic and diverse legacy of philanthropic community in Michigan and a powerful network of state and national partners, the CEO will advance an innovative vision for CMF, strengthen relationships and programs that serve its members, oversee strategic operations, lead policy and advocacy efforts to protect philanthropic independence, and ensure CMF’s long-term sustainability and impact for the benefit of future generations. CMF is a nonpartisan, values based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization and a premier regional association with membership tenure that ranges from some of the largest, oldest, and most connected foundations in the country to newly established philanthropies at the cutting edge of the field. Michigan philanthropy includes community foundations that...

The Opportunity The American Civil Liberties Union of Tennessee (ACLU-TN) seeks a creative, collaborative, mission-driven community organizer to become our next community engagement strategist. The community engagement strategist will support the community engagement department’s main priorities: Mobilizing volunteers and supporters to act in rapid response moments that threaten civil liberties and freedom in Tennessee Executing issue-based campaigns to change public opinion on civil liberties throughout the state, such as immigration, free speech, and abuse of power Recruiting, retaining, and developing a base of Tennesseans to plan and execute advocacy tactics at the local, state, and federal levels Under the supervision of the community engagement director, the community engagement strategist will: Facilitate highly engaging, participatory programming, training, and events for volunteers, turning ACLU-TN supporters into high-capacity volunteer leaders...

  PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a motivated, highly organized, and professional senior program manager to support the Freedom to Read Program in defense of the freedom to read, learn, and teach. This is a full-time position based in PEN America’s New York City headquarters and reports to the director, Freedom to Read.   The Freedom to Read senior program manager will contribute to the growth of PEN America’s work on free expression, with a focus on defending the freedom to read in K-12 schools and public libraries, and generally helping to combat censorship and book banning. Working collaboratively with the Freedom to Read program team, the senior manager will lead data collection and the portfolio of research on book bans and educational censorship at public schools and public libraries. The senior manager will also help design and carry out advocacy and educational programming, such as events...