Volunteer: Sustainable Fundraising & Donor Engagement Strategy

About the role

Taproot Foundation is offering a volunteer consulting opportunity with Grandmothers’ Village Project (GMVP). The project aims to strengthen and diversify GMVP’s fundraising beyond grants by creating a practical, sustainable approach to individual giving, donor cultivation, sponsorships, corporate giving, and philanthropic partnerships.

Responsibilities

• Identify promising prospects for individual giving, sponsorships, philanthropic support, corporate giving, and institutional partnerships.
• Provide practical methods for identifying and researching additional prospects over time.
• Develop a manageable approach for reaching, cultivating, and maintaining relationships with prospective donors, funders, sponsors, and partners.
• Create a clear fundraising messaging framework that communicates GMVP’s mission, vision, case for support, and key messages for outreach.
• Design a simple 6–12 month fundraising calendar with realistic priorities and activities.
• Establish a straightforward fundraising process that future development volunteers or team members can continue.

Deliverables

• A realistic fundraising roadmap for GMVP.
• An initial pool of prospective supporters.
• A method for identifying additional prospects over time.
• A clear fundraising messaging framework.
• A sustainable process that the GMVP team can continue using to build financial support.

Organization mission

Grandmothers’ Village Project is a nonprofit intentional community organization created to house BIPOC elder women, grandmothers, and grandfathers in an environmentally safe and ecologically sound village. The mission promotes social, economic, environmental, housing, food, and spiritual justice, and strengthens democracy for BIPOC elder women and grandfathers.