Events Intern

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RLC Overview

RLC was founded in 2013 and is now operating in 8 cities across the country (HQ in NYC). Our services are excess food delivery, food waste consulting, co-branding services and tax credit assistance.

"The mission of Rescuing Leftover Cuisine, Inc. is to provide a reliable food rescue service by fostering community connections to reduce food waste and food insecurity."

To get the full overview of Rescuing Leftover Cuisines strategy for increasing fundraising, you can read the Development Plan shared with you during your onboarding.

As the Events intern, it is your main responsibility to assist the Development Director, Fundraising Team and Marketing team in planning, organizing and executing fundraising events for Rescuing Leftover Cuisine. This includes events planning, internal communications, attendee outreach, ticket sales, attendee confirmation, event execution and any other tasks related to various types of events.

In addition, you will assist in relationship building and communication with current and potential corporate partners to support on sponsorship program for current and future events.

Hours: 8-10 per week (if possible: 12 per during weeks leading up to event)

Overall Tasks

-Online Training and Streamyard Training

-Read Development Plan

-Research and Demo on Bloomerang

-Brainstorm Fundraising Events

-Organize and correspondence between departments

-Prepare event timeline and tasks division

-Outreach and Stewardship of Corporate Sponsors

-Any other tasks related to event planning

-Successfully plan and execute 1 fundraising event

-Secure at least 3 sponsors for the event (in-kind or monetary)

-Ensure follow-up for all Event Sponsors post-event

Professionalism

• Punctuality - Give warning if schedule changes or other plans come up
• Task Completion in the timeframe it has been set
• Work Ethics

Productivity

• Show progress
• Take initiative
• Contact management know when hit a roadblock

RLC uses Google Drive for their documents and information.

To complete your weekly tasks, you will mainly use the folder named "Fundraising".

Top Folders/documents you will be using are:

RLC uses Bloomerang as their CRM software. On this platform we organize all of our donors, with a focus on individual donors. We only include approved grants on Bloomerang.

There will be an in-depth training following the launch of this software, but prior to that it is expected that you research and watch a few demos on how this software works.

RLC uses Salesforce for tracking grant applications as well (there are some limitation to Bloomerang) - this is where we track which stage the application in and who is responsible. This platform is what we use to make formal reports (for example to the Board of Directors).

Trello is the internal platform the grant team uses to track grant progress as well as administrative tasks. We have one 'board’ for admin tasks, one for HQ/NYC grants and individual board for each of the branches. The onboarding will include training.

NonProfitReady offers a free training on Fundraising Essentials where they touch upon what Nonprofit Fundraising is, how to identity and cultivate donors, and how to solicit and steward donors.

At the end of each chapter there is a test to make sure you have picked up on the most important tips and strategies. You can take the test several times and when you pass you will get a 'certificate’ - Which you will send to Rebecca upon completion.

Sign up and take the training here:https://www.nonprofitready.org/free-fundraising-certificate

*Required for all interns in the fundraising department*

Rebecca Rae Reagan - Corporate and Development Engagement Director

Email: rebecca@rescuingleftovercuisine.org

Phone: (515) 779-3303

Andrew Creamer - Marketing Director

Email: andrew@rescuingleftovercuisine.org