Kadima is currently hiring a Fundraising Strategy Consultant
Fundraising Strategy Consultant
Request for Proposal: Fundraising Strategy Consultant
Kadima Reconstructionist Community
PURPOSE
Kadima, a progressive Jewish community on the Coast Salish Land of the Duwamish people, in Seattle, WA, seeks training, analysis, healing, recommendations and guidance to vastly improve its capabilities, effectiveness, and relational, liberatory approach in fundraising, donor cultivation, and revenue generation.
The budget for this contract is $5,000.
ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND
Kadima is a 45 year old Jewish social justice organization, founded by and rooted in community. We are an ever-evolving progressive community for Jews and our allies in Seattle, upholding strong values of inclusion, social justice, equity, cross-community solidarity work, and the honoring of diverse Jewish traditions, cultures, and historical experiences. Our membership includes activists, organizers, and cultural workers; we strive to be a Jewish voice in the larger progressive community and a progressive voice in the larger Jewish community.
We were volunteer-led for many years and have been staffed in various ways since 1989. Our current staff includes Director of Operations, Director of Youth & Family Learning, Bookkeeping and Administrative Specialist, Rabbi, and approximately 10 teachers for our youth and family programming. Our budget has grown from $193,000 in 2018/19 to $446,000 in 2022/23. Our current membership size is approximately 200 households. Our main income streams are membership dues (43%), tuition for our religious school (21%), High Holiday donations (4%), and annual fundraising drives and events (13%).
SCOPE OF WORK
WHAT WE WANT TO LEARN ABOUT YOU
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
OUR TIMELINE
EVALUATION CRITERIA
TO APPLY
Please review the above "Submission Requirements" and send your proposal and resume to [email protected]. We will consider proposals on a rolling basis according to the timeline listed above.
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People of color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, people from poor and working class backgrounds, disabled people, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and Two-Spirit applicants are enthusiastically invited to apply to all positions.
Kadima does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender expression, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior contact with the criminal justice system, or any other basis prohibited by law.
Kadima Reconstructionist Community
PURPOSE
Kadima, a progressive Jewish community on the Coast Salish Land of the Duwamish people, in Seattle, WA, seeks training, analysis, healing, recommendations and guidance to vastly improve its capabilities, effectiveness, and relational, liberatory approach in fundraising, donor cultivation, and revenue generation.
The budget for this contract is $5,000.
ORGANIZATIONAL BACKGROUND
Kadima is a 45 year old Jewish social justice organization, founded by and rooted in community. We are an ever-evolving progressive community for Jews and our allies in Seattle, upholding strong values of inclusion, social justice, equity, cross-community solidarity work, and the honoring of diverse Jewish traditions, cultures, and historical experiences. Our membership includes activists, organizers, and cultural workers; we strive to be a Jewish voice in the larger progressive community and a progressive voice in the larger Jewish community.
We were volunteer-led for many years and have been staffed in various ways since 1989. Our current staff includes Director of Operations, Director of Youth & Family Learning, Bookkeeping and Administrative Specialist, Rabbi, and approximately 10 teachers for our youth and family programming. Our budget has grown from $193,000 in 2018/19 to $446,000 in 2022/23. Our current membership size is approximately 200 households. Our main income streams are membership dues (43%), tuition for our religious school (21%), High Holiday donations (4%), and annual fundraising drives and events (13%).
SCOPE OF WORK
- Develop and provide a fundraising “training-for-trainers” program for Kadima leadership, consistent with organizational values, that can be used and adapted by Kadima into the future
- Encourage a culture of encouragement, possibility, abundance, and data-informed decision making
- Meet us and grow our analysis of oppression, marginalization, and specifically our intersections with classism in relationship to fundraising
- Provide a revenue analysis of the organization
- Provide ongoing leadership coaching for a proposed long term period as the board, leadership, and community practices its learning (frequency TBD)
WHAT WE WANT TO LEARN ABOUT YOU
- Your values related to fundraising
- Your experiences working with Jewish communities, social justice organizations, activist communities and movements. Who have you done this work with previously?
- Your knowledge and experience with marginalized communities
- Your approach to learning about clients and their issues, priorities, and values
- Your strategies for engaging donors from a range of economic classes or incomes
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
- Written proposal that includes specific information such as number of hours it will take to train 10-13 board members and staff; projected timeline; number of sessions and proposed content; support available outside of live trainings; training materials and resources to be provided for Kadima’s continued use.
- Resume, portfolio, and/or website
- A sample of similar work performed (redact identifying information as needed)
- Three references from organizations you’ve done this work with previously and/or individuals who can attest to your experience and capabilities
- Optional video or other creative submission to help us learn more about you
OUR TIMELINE
- Submissions open ongoing, May 10 priority deadline
- Interviews/Conversations rolling beginning within a week of submission
- Outreach and offer to selected candidate ideally by June 2
EVALUATION CRITERIA
- Values-alignment
- Directly applicable experience
- Responsiveness to Kadima’s goals and the proposed scope of work
- Quality of work for previous clients
- Quality of consultant-client relationships
- Cost effectiveness/budget alignment
- Communication style
TO APPLY
Please review the above "Submission Requirements" and send your proposal and resume to [email protected]. We will consider proposals on a rolling basis according to the timeline listed above.
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People of color, Sephardi and Mizrahi Jews, immigrants, formerly incarcerated people, people from poor and working class backgrounds, disabled people, and transgender, gender non-conforming, and Two-Spirit applicants are enthusiastically invited to apply to all positions.
Kadima does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender expression, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, military status, prior contact with the criminal justice system, or any other basis prohibited by law.
We are grateful to Eden Village West, Rainier Valley Corps, Jews for Racial & Economic Justice, and Camelback Ventures for providing inspiration and language from their recent job postings! As well as The Funders' Collaborative on Youth Organizing, Courage Campaign, Bend the Arc, and The Chorus Foundation who have all recently engaged RFPs for anti-capitalist fundraising consultants and from whose work we have learned.