Development Associate, Community Access to the Arts

Development Associate, Community Access to the Arts

Posted on July 29, 2026 Written by Community Access to the Arts

Community Access to the Arts (CATA) is an innovative, award-winning nonprofit arts organization that nurtures creativity, connection, and community. Through high-quality visual, performing, and literary arts programs, CATA empowers people with disabilities to express themselves, develop artistically and personally, and share their work with the community.

This is an exceptional opportunity for an early-career professional interested in nonprofit fundraising or arts administration. The ideal candidate is highly organized, detail-oriented, curious, eager to learn, and excited to build a career in the nonprofit sector while contributing to an organization that is transforming lives through the arts. You will have the opportunity to learn and to develop professionally within a successful, highly regarded mission-based organization surrounded by exceptional colleagues.

This position plays a key role in advancing CATA’s fundraising efforts by maintaining the integrity of donor data and providing outstanding administrative support to the Development team.

Reporting to the Development Director, the Development Associate helps support special events, donor communications, and day-to-day operations to create a seamless and meaningful donor experience and ensure CATA’s fundraising success. The Development Associate bears responsibility for accurate gift processing, thoughtful donor communications, meticulous database management, and administrative support.

This is a full-time, benefits-eligible position based at CATA’s offices in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

Community Access to the Arts (CATA) is a trailblazing nonprofit that nurtures and celebrates the creativity of people with disabilities through the arts. In powerful arts programs, people with disabilities express themselves creatively, developing personally and artistically through dance, theater, music, painting, yoga, creative writing, and more. Their vibrant work is showcased in CATA’s public performances, readings, and art exhibits, presented in collaboration with premier cultural institutions in the Berkshires including The Clark Art Institute, Shakespeare & Company, and The Mount.

CATA has dramatically expanded its programs and impact in recent years through robust partnerships with 65 community-based organizations, including disability agencies, residences, and schools, to serve over 1,300 CATA artists annually. Programs focus especially on people with developmental and intellectual disabilities, autism, and brain injuries–historically among the most underserved groups in the arts–and are taught by a professional faculty of talented teaching artists, all experts in their artistic fields.

Located in Great Barrington MA, CATA has an annual budget of $3.2M and is led by a dedicated team of 23 full-time staff, including eight resident faculty. CATA prizes its intentional organizational culture, which is characterized by collaboration, inclusivity, and a shared commitment to innovation, bold thinking, and excellence. CATA has been widely recognized for its groundbreaking work through the Mackenzie Scott Yield Giving national grant award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Commonwealth Award, NEPR Arts & Humanities Award, Mass Nonprofit Network Excellence Award, 1

Berkshire Trendsetter Award, and the Barr-Klarman Massachusetts Arts Initiative.

• Data Entry & Record Maintenance:
  Actively enter data into organizational database and maintain records, accurately entering gifts, pledges, and donor information with scrupulous attention to detail and in a timely manner; ensure consistency and accuracy across records; and perform routine data cleanup to actively ensure health and accuracy of CATA’s database records.
• Donor Acknowledgment & Stewardship:
  Prepare and coordinate timely, accurate, and personalized donor acknowledgments and communications with exceptional attention to detail. Ensure correspondence reflects donor intent, is carefully proofread, and is tracked to completion.
• Annual…