Donor Communications Specialist

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Are you in search of a purpose-filled internship? One that believes social change is centered around shaking up systems, deep connection, dedication, and community?

Shakti Rising is a social change organization transforming the lives of women, girls, and the larger community by cultivating their health and emerging leadership, ultimately empowering their personal transformation as a catalyst for positive change in their own life as well as that of their families and communities.

Our model for collective success includes the following interwoven principles:

• women centered, holistic & trauma informed
• sustainable
• based in cultivation of creativity, leadership and community

Our work actively promotes community well being, creating woman & child friendly societies that are safe, healthy, vibrant, diverse, sustainable and culturally alive. Part of how we do that is through programs & offerings that support women to achieve financial health and sufficiency, enabling them to create new economic realities in their families & communities.

Dreamer of Deepened Connection

Do you recognize the importance of maintaining value-full communication with members of the community? Sharing beneficial updates and successes in a creative way? Crafting beautiful digital communications to relay information? Do we have an opportunity for you!

This position is created with a focus on the seasonal donor newsletters , including tasks such as:

• Exploring resources to gather current donor contact information
• Ensuring the Shakti team has access to updated information within working platforms
• Celebrating current Shakti focuses, events and celebratory updates with donors
• Scheduling donor events and overseeing invitations

Project-based skills we seek to align with:

• Strong writing and creative capacities
• Clear grasp of strategy
• Genuine understanding that the heart of fundraising is authentic human connection and the possibility of transformation
• Knowledge of or adaptability to work with Salesforce and mail programs
• Willingness to develop skills of connecting with donors
• Some design capacity, especially with newsletter creation
• Openness toward the possibility of research and prospecting

Human-based qualities we seek to align with:

It is imperative that any candidate share a genuine care for this work, women, and people in general, with an understanding that we are seeking to heal the systemic inequities within fundraising while being successful at securing our funds.

It is also important that candidates be comfortable with:

• Taking risks and initiative
• Embodying self-motivation
• Maintaining accountability
• Wanting to have fun with the work they’re undertaking
• Being comfortable with some degree of woo
• Ideally, showing interest in how natural models, like gardens, can inform this work

This is an unpaid volunteer internship with an opportunity to gain valuable skills and make an undeniable difference in women's lives across the country.

This position will work directly with Shakti's Founder & Vision Keeper to implement Believer Garden-specific donor cultivation, communication and "propagation" campaigns. This will entail working with the Director of Resource Development and possibly with other staff. As part of this internship, you are invited to staff meetings and trainings, allowing you to not only deepen within your position but within the organization as well.

Our invitation for you, is to join us!

Start Date: February 2021

Term: 6 months -1 year

Hours: Flexible, 5+ hours/week

Location: Remote

This is an unpaid volunteer internship with an opportunity to gain valuable skills and make an undeniable difference in women's lives across the country.

Note from an intern:

"My name is Willa and I completed my 9 month internship at the end of June. I am only leaving the position because I'm moving across the country. Chelsea is an amazing leader and mentor, and working with her is joyful and rigorous. She leads in a way that is embodied, loving, and disciplined and has allowed me to learn more about my own strengths as a leader and how I want to lead in my life. I feel that my gifts have been brought forward and honored and I am leaving this position a stronger leader than when I came in. Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions (about my experience)!" willa.conway@gmail.com