Director, Philanthropy

Essential Duties:

Develops cultivation, stewardship, and prospecting strategies for individual annual/major gifts, planned giving, corporate partnerships and grants. Provide direction regarding the strategic planning in fundraising channels to include but not limited to: direct response, digital, email and event sponsorships. Develops annual Advancement Budget to include fundraising goals for individual donors, corporate donations, and grant awards. Leads the Advancement Team in identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and expanding the number of prospective donors, volunteers, and community partners. Provides analysis and reporting on overall performance of fundraising against goals and strategic plan. Stays apprised of advancements and changes pertinent to communication, fundraising, and development profession. Directs and leads adaptations to current strategies and practices in accordance with these changes and as necessary. Provides vision and direction to build and manage a full-scale Advancement Program to include Donor Relations, Volunteer Development, Corporate Partnerships and Communication. Builds the pipeline of potential future donors that will allow the organization to strengthen its relationship with its existing giving base and broaden its support across generations, socio-economic sectors, races, religions and giving ability. Approaches appropriate constituencies to increase and diversify philanthropic giving. Develops and oversees the social media, marketing and communications strategies that will advance awareness and engage the community to support the mission of LifePath. Participates in speaking engagements with media as needed to promote LifePath Christian Ministries.