Communications director jobs | Impact Opportunity

Aug 01, 2023

Vice President, Strategic Growth and Revenue Featured

$130,000 - $175,000 yearly

About Raising a Reader Raising a Reader (RAR) is a national nonprofit that partners with parents and educators to create brighter futures for children by strengthening family bonds. Family engagement is at the core of what we do. Our evidence-based programs help caring adults set their children up for success by creating shared reading routines, fostering social-emotional learning, healthy family relationships and learning skills needed to thrive in school and beyond. Through easy-to-use, multilingual materials and diverse stories, we meet families where they are and make shared reading more engaging and accessible for all children. We believe that all children deserve the opportunity to realize their potential. We believe that the best way to support children is by engaging and strengthening families, and that the lessons that last are those learned with love. We believe that reading helps children develop not just literacy skills, but also empathy,...

Raising A Reader Hybrid (Milpitas, CA, USA) Full-Time

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Sep 23, 2023

Program Director and Senior Attorney, Power & Democracy Featured

$161,000 yearly

Who we are: Situated at the forefront of the national stage in the racial justice movement, Advancement Project National Office is a cutting-edge, no-holds-barred national nonprofit whose team members are dedicated to creating free and safe communities for people of color. From ending the school-to-prison pipeline to the fight to expand the right to vote, from fighting for immigrant justice, Advancement Project National Office team members impact real change from the ground up. This moment demands alignment, sharp strategic thinking, and creativity to imagine a more just world in which racism no longer exists and all people of color can be free and safe – and we are excited to bring on new talent to change our world. Since the 2000 presidential election, Advancement Project has been a leader in voter protection, supporting grassroots organizations in year-round election administration efforts and building national narratives to push back on voter suppression. Through...

Advancement Project Hybrid Full-Time

Sep 21, 2023

Senior Manager, Membership Featured

$78,000 - $85,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights to protect open expression in the United States and worldwide, seeks an innovative, energetic, and highly organized senior manager for our national Membership initiative. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters and reports to the Director, National Outreach and Engagement. PEN America’s strength lies in its membership—which includes a nationwide community of novelists and nonfiction authors, journalists, editors, poets, screenwriters, essayists, playwrights, publishers, translators, agents, and other literary professionals, and an even larger network of devoted readers and supporters who join with them to carry out PEN America’s mission. The senior manager will help develop and implement strategies for attracting new members and retaining existing ones. They will be responsible for implementation, with a focus on increasing members...

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Sep 21, 2023

Research and Advocacy Lead, China Featured

$90,000 - $103,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks an experienced human rights practitioner to spearhead research and advocacy on China and free expression in our PEN/Barbey Freedom To Write Center. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters or Washington, D.C. office, reporting to the Director of the PEN/Barbey Freedom to Write Center. President Xi Jinping has overseen an extensive crackdown on free expression in China, implementing new laws and censorship controls on the internet, media, and publishers. The Chinese government’s extensive censorship apparatus limits free expression both within and outside its borders, making it a key area of work for PEN America. We seek to break down barriers to free expression through our reports, advocacy, and building solidarity between American writers and their Chinese colleagues. The research and advocacy lead will chart a research and advocacy...

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Sep 21, 2023

Senior Manager, PEN Across America Featured

$75,000 - $80,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a senior manager to lead its PEN Across America program, developing and sustaining our national network of chapters. The senior manager will mobilize PEN America Members, local and regional art and literature communities, as well as other supporters and community allies to address threats to free expression, engage with literature, and otherwise link PEN America’s mission to issues of local concern. They will create and help implement strategies and programs, develop regional and local leadership, nurture partnerships, and cultivate funders. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York headquarters and requires substantial travel, including outside of regular work hours and on occasional weekends. The senior manager will report to the Director, National Outreach and Engagement. The PEN Across America senior manager will bring PEN America’s mission to a...

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Sep 19, 2023

Director of Finance & Operations (Remote, US) Featured

$140,000 - $160,000 yearly

Organization Overview The system is rigged and the solution isn’t just to create more programs for people harmed by these unfair systems. The solution is to reimagine these systems to make our country fairer and more equitable for everyone—which means ensuring that the places where we work, live, play and pray tap into people’s universal drive for wellbeing, instead of undermining wellbeing for some and enabling it for others. That’s what we do. The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) is a social change nonprofit working toward a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing—the needs and experiences essential for health and hope. We partner with pioneering public systems, communities and nonprofits across the country to fundamentally transform the structures and beliefs that perpetuate inequality. We are bold, focused, creative and committed learners, willing to use our passion, humor and hope to fuel change. FFI is a virtual organization with employees located...

The Full Frame Initiative Remote Full-Time

Sep 19, 2023

National Council for Mental Wellbeing - Strategy Lead, Substance Use Featured

$220,000 yearly

About Us The vision of the National Council for Mental Wellbeing is to make mental wellbeing, including recovery from substance use challenges, a reality for everyone. Despite overwhelming need, nearly 30 million people across the U.S. do not have access to comprehensive, high-quality, affordable mental health and substance use care when they need it. Founded in 1969, the National Council is a membership organization that drives policy and social change on behalf of nearly 3,300 mental health and substance use prevention, treatment and recovery organizations and the more than 10 million children, adults and families they serve. We advocate for policies to ensure equitable access to high-quality services and supports. We build the capacity of mental health and substance use treatment organizations. And we promote greater understanding of mental wellbeing as a core component of comprehensive health and health care. Through our Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) program, we...

Viewcrest Advisors Remote Full-Time

Sep 14, 2023

Executive Director Featured

$155,000 - $180,000 yearly

Leadership Tomorrow is seeking a visionary and collaborative leader to be our next Executive Director. Leadership Tomorrow educates, inspires, connects, and catalyzes leaders from across Puget Sound who collaborate for collective impact. Through our Flagship Program and alumni programming, we help leaders from the public, private, and nonprofit sectors cultivate a deeper understanding of the interconnected issues that shape our region. Participants in LT programs build lifelong relationships with fellow leaders who share our commitment to making our region a place where people from all communities and identities thrive. Leadership Tomorrow is built on the belief that great leaders come from all communities, backgrounds, ages, and sectors, and as such we encourage people with a wide variety of leadership experiences and backgrounds to apply! We are particularly seeking candidates who: Are visionary and strategic leaders with a strong impact orientation Have...

Clover Search Works Seattle, WA, USA Full-Time

Sep 11, 2023

Director of Engagement and Partnerships (Remote, US) Featured

$140,000 - $165,000 yearly

Deadline to Apply: Wednesday, October 4th, by 5:00pm ET. We will not be reviewing applications received after 10/4/23. Organization Overview The system is rigged and the solution isn’t just to create more programs for people harmed by these unfair systems. The solution is to reimagine these systems to make our country fairer and more equitable for everyone—which means ensuring that the places where we work, live, play and pray tap into people’s universal drive for wellbeing, instead of undermining wellbeing for some and enabling it for others. That’s what we do. The Full Frame Initiative (FFI) is a social change nonprofit working toward a country where everyone has a fair shot at wellbeing—the needs and experiences essential for health and hope. We partner with pioneering public systems, communities and nonprofits across the country to fundamentally transform the structures and beliefs that perpetuate inequality. We are bold, focused, creative and committed...

The Full Frame Initiative Remote (USA) Full-Time

Sep 05, 2023

Assistant Director of Education and Training Featured

Organizational Overview: Silver Lining Mentoring (SLM) empowers youth in foster care to thrive through committed mentoring relationships and the development of essential life skills. For over 20 years, Silver Lining Mentoring has matched young people in the child welfare system in the greater Boston area with highly-committed, volunteer mentors. As of 2019, the organization is scaling that mission nationally through the Silver Lining Mentoring Institute . The Institute’s purpose is to create a future where every young person in the U.S. impacted by foster care will have access to a high-quality, consistent volunteer mentoring relationship. The Institute is achieving this goal by equipping a network of practitioners across the country who are starting up or growing mentoring programs with best-in-field strategies and tools via a partnership with the National Mentoring Resource Center (NMRC) and MENTOR . In Silver Lining Mentoring’s greater...

Silver Lining Mentoring Hybrid (NH, USA) Full-Time

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Aug 21, 2023

Director of Development Featured

$145,000 - $165,000 yearly

Reports To: CEO Hours: Monday through Friday, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. with some evening or weekend hours required for event support and/or donor cultivation. Location: Very limited Hybrid opportunity; to be discussed during interviews. Applicants must live in NYC-Metropolitan Area. Organizational Overview Teens for Food Justice fights food insecurity and diet-related disease through school-based, youth-led hydroponic farming, providing local, sustainably grown produce to food desert communities and building health equity for all New Yorkers and beyond. TFFJ works within NYC Title I middle and high schools in food desert communities, training students to build/maintain indoor hydroponic farms located within NYC school buildings, each capable of growing 10,000 pounds of produce annually—served daily at school lunch and distributed to the surrounding community’s food-insecure residents. Further, students learn nutrition skills to share with...

Search for Good Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Aug 18, 2023

The David & Lucile Packard Foundation - Program Officer, Democracy Rights and Governance Featured

$173,000 - $245,000 yearly

As the Packard Foundation continues to actively examine how we can contribute to a more just and equitable society, it is clear that a strong democracy in the United States is critical, both on its own and also to sustain our and our partners’ work on other core issues. The new U.S. Democracy, Rights, and Governance (DRG) Initiative will seek to advance an inclusive, pro-equity, multi-racial democracy. Initial focus areas include supporting election integrity; supporting effective governance and bolstering faith in the institutions of government; repairing the United States’ social fabric; and combatting disinformation. POSITION SUMMARY Located within the new Just Societies goal area, and reporting to the DRG Director, the Program Officer (PO) will support the development and implementation of the DRG Initiative’s multi-year nonpartisan grantmaking strategy. The PO will execute on all aspects of annual grantmaking for the Initiative portfolio, under the...

Viewcrest Advisors Hybrid (Los Altos, CA, USA) Full-Time

Aug 18, 2023

Talent Operations Coordinator Featured

Originally founded in 1991 as Harlem RBI, DREAM has grown to annually serve more than 2,500 youth across East Harlem and the South Bronx through a network of six PreK-12, extended-day, extended-year DREAM Charter Schools and community sports-based youth development programs. Through our commitment to rigorous academics, social-emotional learning, deep family and community engagement, and health and wellness, we create lifelong learners who are equipped to fulfill their vision of success in and out of the classroom. We dream big, as well, with an aggressive five-year plan to expand to serve 3,500 students across seven schools—growing our organization's impact and leveling the playing field for all children. To learn more, visit wearedream.org. Reporting to the Director of Employee Relations and Senior Talent Operations Manager, this is an exciting opportunity for someone who is interested in supporting the functionality of tools, systems, data cycles and processes to drive...

DREAM Charter School New York, NY, USA Full-Time

Aug 17, 2023

Chief Financial Officer Featured

$200,000 - $230,000 yearly

World Central Kitchen Chief Financial Officer Job Description About World Central Kitchen Founded in 2010 by Chef José Andrés, World Central Kitchen (WCK) is a nonprofit organization that is first to the frontlines providing fresh meals in response to crises. Applying our model of quick action, leveraging local resources, and adapting in real time, WCK has served more than 300 million nourishing meals around the world. WCK is a rapidly growing organization that has scaled from a $4M organization in 2017 to ending the 2022 fiscal year as a $500M+ organization. The impact and financial scale of WCK can increase and decrease year over year depending on the disasters and crises we are responding to. WCK is responding to disasters and crises in greater numbers and with greater complexities, such as the war in Ukraine. About the Chief Financial Officer Position WCK is seeking a Chief Financial Officer (CFO) to join its Executive Team. Reporting to...

LeaderFit Hybrid (Washington, DC, USA) Full-Time

Aug 15, 2023

Special Assistant, Free Expression Programs Featured

$58,000 - $65,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization working at the intersection of literature and human rights, seeks a dynamic, detail-oriented, and highly organized special assistant to support the operations of our growing Free Expression Programs (FEP) department, and directly supports the Chief Program Officer, Free Expression. The special assistant will work closely with the Chief Program Officer, the Managing Director of PEN America Washington and Free Expression Programs, and C-Suite executives in supporting the management of the FEP department. The role also liaises with staff and teams across the FEP department, as well as external contacts and counterpart organizations. This position offers a significant opportunity for high levels of responsibility in a dynamic operational, administrative, and strategic role that supports PEN America’s programming in defense of free expression. This is a full-time position based at PEN America’s New York City headquarters reporting to the Chief...

PEN America Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Aug 15, 2023

Director, PEN America Florida Featured

$120,000 - $140,000 yearly

PEN America, a nonprofit organization defending and celebrating free expression, seeks a forward-thinking, innovative Director to establish PEN America in Florida. The Director will build the programming, public profile, partnerships and funding to advance PEN America’s mission across the state, drawing on PEN America’s established expertise and national staff as well as its Florida-based constituency, including donors, supporters, and a volunteer-led Miami/South Florida chapter. This exciting new role requires an entrepreneurial approach, the ability to spot openings for free expression advocacy and literary activism, and the versatility to represent PEN America in a wide range of settings. The position will be based in Miami, reporting to PEN America leadership at its New York City headquarters. PEN America is establishing its Florida office as expression in the state is being constricted through the banning of books in schools and libraries, controls on education...

PEN America Hybrid (Miami, FL, USA) Full-Time

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Aug 08, 2023

Executive Director Featured

$160,000 - $170,000 yearly

This position includes subsidized housing in Hampton Bays, NY. We are only considering candidates with a minimum of 10 years of senior-level leadership/management experience. The Opportunity The Southampton Animal Shelter Foundation ( SASF ) seeks a strategic and entrepreneurial Executive Director to lead us into the next decade. Our desired candidate is a compelling spokesperson and proven leader with a successful track record in fundraising and managing people, operations, and budgets. You are willing to fight for our mission to provide for the welfare of homeless animals, promoting and nurturing the bond between people and animals through adoption, education, and community outreach. We are proud of our commitment to providing a home to any companion animal, regardless of the animal's circumstances or past. We turn no animal away. Post-pandemic, a record number of animals have been abandoned, and our resources are stretched to the limit. We need a...

Search for Good Hampton Bays, NY, USA Full-Time

Aug 02, 2023

Director, Democracy and Justice Program Featured

Established over two decades ago by Alan V. and Amy Lowenstein, the Institute undertakes dynamic and independent advocacy aimed at toppling load-bearing walls of structural racial inequality to create just, vibrant and healthy urban communities of color. The Institute employs a broad range of advocacy tools to advance our ambitious racial and social justice agenda, including research, analysis and writing, public education, grassroots organizing, communications, development of pilot programs, legislative strategies and litigation. As was the case at our founding, this moment calls for racial and social justice advocacy inspired by the fierce urgency of now. In recent years, Jim Crow-like voter suppression has swept across America. The time is now for not only meaningful voting reform, but to also evaluate how we can transform civic engagement and expand democracy in New Jersey. We continue to serve as a leading voice in designing, advocating for and implementing...

New Jersey Institute for Social Justice Newark, NJ, USA Full-Time

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Aug 01, 2023

Director of Development Featured

$90,000 - $120,000 yearly

Choose Creativity Powered by the Lulu & Leo Fund Director of Development Job Descriptio n Choose Creativity seeks a strategic and skilled Director of Development with a passion to help expand and strengthen our organization at a time of significant growth and momentum. Thanks to a successful evidence-based model and a clear vision for expansion, Choose Creativity is investing in its development capacity. The ideal Director of Development will play a key leadership role in our expansion by securing support from individual donors and institutional funders, overseeing communications with donors, and directing all fundraising operations. Who We Are: Marina and Kevin Krim established the Lulu & Leo Fund in memory of their children Lulu and Leo, who were lost in a tragedy in October 2012. Marina and Kevin developed the 10 Principles of Creativity directly from their experience of rebuilding their family and lives. The 10 Principles...

Search for Good Hybrid (New York, NY, USA) Full-Time

Sep 26, 2023

Executive Director Featured

$70,000 - $80,000 yearly

POSITION DESCRIPTION: Executive Director, Asheville GreenWorks Location: Asheville, NC Asheville GreenWorks is seeking an experienced and passionate candidate to lead the organization as executive director and add to its exceptional 50-year history. For this year’s 50th Anniversary, Asheville GreenWorks adopted a new strategic direction, in service of a newly-refined mission that centers climate resilience and equity. Through community engagement and our four core values of community, equity, adaptability, and humility, Asheville GreenWorks seeks to create four core impacts: 1. Community-Scale Climate Resilience – Finding solutions to our most urgent environmental challenges. 2. Empowered Communities – Mobilizing a new generation of environmental leaders. 3. Systems Change – Leveraging human systems to protect natural ones. 4. A Healthy Environment – Protecting the resources that sustain us. Programs include: ● Urban Forestry – Our goal is to plant 50,000 more...

Asheville GreenWorks Hybrid (Asheville, NC, USA) Full-Time

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