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The SPAN Parent Advocacy Network (SPAN) is seeking an Executive Director to function as the organization's Chief Executive Officer. The Executive Director is responsible for managing all aspects of SPAN's organization: planning, implementation, and evaluation of projects, programs, policy, fiscal, personnel, and administration. The Executive Director reports directly to SPAN's Board of Directors and is responsible for implementing policies and the strategic plan set by the Board of Directors. Essential duties and responsibilities include the following. Responsible for: Overall leadership of staff in the development, implementation, and evaluation of short and long-range plans and policies, and other activities. Financial management, including developing and implementing the annual budget, overseeing development and fundraising, and ensuring sound financial practices. Development, implementation, accomplishment, and evaluation of the annual work plan...

About the Foundation The Heising-Simons Foundation is a family foundation based in Los Altos and San Francisco, California. The Foundation works with its many partners to advance sustainable solutions in climate and clean energy, enable groundbreaking research in science, enhance the education of our youngest learners, and support human rights for all people. In 2020, the Foundation awarded more than $127 million in grants. The Foundation, and the affiliated Heising-Simons Action Fund, a 501(c)(4) organization, are guided by the values of humility, courage, justice, opportunity, sustainability, innovation, relationships, and integrity. The Heising-Simons Foundation is committed to the safety of our staff and to facilitating connection and community with one another and our partners. While we were remote for the large part of 2020 and 2021, we are slowly moving toward a flexible hybrid work arrangement. In 2022, the Foundation is piloting a new flexible hybrid work policy....

Fund for a Safer Future (FSF or the Fund), a national donor collaborative with a vision of a country where everyone is safe from gun violence, seeks applications and nominations for Executive Director . Launched in 2011 and housed at the New Venture Fund, the Fund’s mission is to strengthen the gun violence prevention community’s capacity to develop and implement smart policy, mobilize supporters, summon the best available research, expand the capacity of community violence intervention programs, advance Second Amendment litigation strategies, and resist the gun lobby’s opposition to common sense reform. More than 30 members strong, FSF is working to reduce gun violence by supporting community-based solutions, research, and state and federal policy change. After ten successful years, FSF seeks to engage its first fulltime Executive Director to more actively manage grantmaking, donor engagement, and fundraising objectives. With a strong track record in raising funds and...

Center for EcoTechnology Seeks President   About the Center for EcoTechnology Since 1976, the Center for EcoTechnology (CET) has helped lead the way to a more sustainable society by researching, developing, and implementing practical solutions to address climate change. (CET) is a private, non-profit organization that helps people, businesses, utilities, and governments save energy, save money, reduce waste, and operate more efficiently. These actions directly benefit CET’s customers – and they add up to the game changing reductions in carbon emissions urgently needed to address climate change. Working collaboratively with community, government, and business partners throughout the country, CET has helped transform the way we live and work for a better community, economy, and environment.   CET gets things done and measures its impact. Every three years, the organization sets, measures and achieves quantitative goals. From 2020-2022, CET will help 115,000 people...

Our Why Bellwether Education Partners is a national nonprofit focused on dramatically changing education and life outcomes for systemically marginalized young people and their communities. We do this by accelerating the impact of education leaders and organizations, informing and influencing policy and program design, and sharing what we learn. Bellwether is 12 years old. Our programmatic work is organized in two teams: Strategic Advising and Policy & Evaluation. What we do Our Strategic Advising team supports education organizations — districts, states, charters, non-profits, and foundations — to develop ambitious plans to increase their impact and solve their most critical strategic challenges. We develop highly actionable plans in partnership with the leadership teams who own and implement the plans. What you’ll do We are seeking a Partner, Strategic Advising, who will bring organizational leadership, strategic acumen, and an analytical mindset to guide...

Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation Seeks CEO   About Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation Established in 1979, Dorchester Bay Economic Development Corporation (“DBEDC”) acts to build a strong, thriving, and diverse community in Boston’s Dorchester neighborhoods. Working closely with neighborhoods, residents, businesses, and partners, DBEDC accesses resources to: Develop affordable across income levels; Create and sustain economic development opportunities for businesses and individuals; and Build community through organizing, civic engagement, and leadership development.   Real Estate Development DBEDC develops housing and commercial projects that are important to the community and clearly respond to community needs. To date, DBEDC has built or preserved over 1,114 units of housing and over 160,000 square feet of commercial space. Click here for a map of DBEDC’s real estate portfolio.   Economic Development Economic...

Park City Community Foundation identifies gaps and issues and then works in partnership with the community to address greater Park City’s most pressing needs. The organization brings together local nonprofits, political and business leaders, caring donors, and community members to contribute both financial resources and innovative ideas that affect lasting change. The Community Foundation incubates and grows community initiatives providing the necessary capacity to foster impact.  The goal is to benefit all the people of greater Park City—now and in the future. The organization cares for and invests in the people, place, and culture of greater Park City. Since 2007, the Community Foundation has had a cumulative impact of over $39 million in grants, programming, and Live PC Give PC. With years of philanthropic expertise and deep roots in Park City, the Community Foundation is the philanthropic hub of greater Park City, connecting impactful organizations with the most pressing...

The Ruth Mott Foundation’s mission is to advocate, stimulate, and support community vitality. Based in Flint, Michigan, the Foundation envisions communities of hope and pride, whose neighborhood environments and urban core are safe, attractive, and healthy, enriched by cultural diversity and an engaged citizenry. Ruth Mott's values inspire the Foundation today and its commitment to be welcoming, inclusive, and just, treat everyone with respect and dignity, act with kindness and good humor, promote civic hope and pride, encourage personal responsibility, practice prevention, and maintain the "long view." As part of the Foundation’s 2016-2025 strategic plan, the Foundation is pursuing its mission by finding and fostering place-based interventions, including social innovation, that emerge from and are focused on achieving positive outcomes in north Flint. Based on a process of deep research and reflection – including discussions with residents, community leaders and grantee partners...

POSITION ANNOUNCEMENT: PRESIDENT & CEO EMERALD CITIES COLLABORATIVE Reports To : Board of Directors Status : Full Time; Exempt Location : Washington, DC Preferred; LA, Bay Area, Seattle, Boston, or New York Negotiable Closing Date: January 7, 2022   A BOUT E MERALD C ITIES C OLLABORATIVE   The Emerald Cities Collaborative (ECC) is a national non-profit organization comprised of a powerful network of national and local community, climate justice, energy, labor, policy, and business organizations and advocates. ECC partners are united around the goal of building high- road regional economies that are sustainable, just, democratic, and publicly accountable. ECC envisions a future in which American cities are the greenest and most equitable in the world, tackling global climate change while creating a vital new economic sector with low-income and communities of color as central actors and beneficiaries. Founded in 2009,...

About National Institute for Reproductive Health The National Institute for Reproductive Health (NIRH) and the National Institute for Reproductive Health Action Fund (NIRH Action Fund) are advocacy groups that fight for just and equitable access to reproductive health care and build political power for reproductive freedom. We launch campaigns, change policy, and elect candidates, all by working hand-in-hand with reproductive health, rights, and justice organizations in states and cities across the country. We work in the communities where the need is great and we can make a difference, so the fabric of reproductive freedom is harder to tear apart. For more information about the National Institute for Reproductive Health, please  visit our website .   About the Opportunity National Institute for Reproductive Health and NIRH-AF seek a strategic and collaborative leader who excels in managing high-performing teams as well as internal operations -- including but...

Organization Boston Lyric Opera (BLO) leads the way in celebrating the art of the voice through innovative programming and community engagement initiatives that redefine the opera-going experience. Its mission is to build curiosity, enthusiasm, and support for opera by creating musically and theatrically compelling productions, events, and educational resources for the Boston community and beyond. More than 25,000 audience members enjoy BLO’s performances each year. Now in its 45th season, BLO is the largest and longest-lived opera company in New England. Founded in 1976 when three opera companies—New England Regional Opera, New England Chamber Opera Group, and Associate Artist Opera—decided to combine into one entity. In 1981, BLO became company-in-residence at Northeastern University. Performances moved to the Schubert Theatre in the 1990s and to the Majestic Theatre and Opera House in 2016. Currently BLO does not have a single performance venue and presents in a variety...

Demos is pleased to invite nominations and applications for its Chief of Programs position. With a visionary President, evolving leadership team, and high impact staff, Demos works at the intersection of democracy and racial and economic justice, to achieve transformative social change for Black and brown communities. Demos’ work recognizes the importance of power building in service of creating a society that is equitable and that works to ensure that Black and brown communities are fully thriving. In doing so, Demos helps create the conditions for all of us to thrive. Demos moves ideas powerful enough to improve the lives of everyday Americans through the full life cycle of change. Through championing over-the-horizon policy solutions and shifting the dominant narrative, Demos works to galvanize acceptance and support for radical change and commits to sustain advocacy until that change is implemented. Demos’ program model leverages litigation, policy research, strategic...

About Compass Working Capital Anti-poverty programs in the United States provide critical, but insufficient, support to families with low incomes. If we are to end poverty and close racial and gender wealth gaps in our communities, we must support families to build the financial assets and capabilities needed to achieve their goals and dreams. We envision a day when asset building is the norm, and not the exception, in the delivery of federally subsidized housing. Since 2005, Compass Working Capital (“Compass”) has been working to do just that, by providing savings and financial coaching programs that support families with low incomes living in federally subsidized housing to build assets, achieve their financial goals, and become financially secure. Our vision is to build a leading, nonprofit financial services organization that promotes economic mobility and financial security for families with low incomes by influencing field-related practice and policy. Within the last...