Manager, Institutional Giving

Manager, Institutional Giving | Advancement Team About Good Reason Houston

Good Reason Houston exists to ensure that every child, in every neighborhood of Houston, has access to a world‑class public education and the opportunity to thrive in the Houston of tomorrow. From a child’s first day of Pre‑K to their first day on the job, we work to make sure every student is prepared for success in school, career, and life.

Anchored in a cradle‑to‑career vision, Good Reason Houston is driven by a bold North Star Goal: to double the rate of public school graduates earning a living wage by 2040, positioning economic mobility as the ultimate measure of student success. Achieving this goal requires collaboration across sectors, and Good Reason Houston serves as Houston’s regional education backbone, uniting public school systems, higher education institutions, employers, and civic leaders around a shared vision for student success.

Good Reason Houston builds awareness, advocates for, and advises school systems on measures aimed to improve the quality of education available to all. Today the organization partners with 25 public school systems that collectively serve 700,000 students across 900 public schools in the Houston region. We seek to cultivate a shared regional vision for educational quality, to build the capacity for change required within districts and the greater Houston community, and to foster collective ownership to support student‑level results for kids across our city.

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Good Reason Houston’s Manager, Institutional Giving supports institutional fundraising efforts by executing grant writing and reporting tasks, organizing stewardship and engagement activities for foundation donors, and maintaining the institutional giving pipeline and data systems. This position helps execute multi‑year institutional giving strategies, coordinates cross‑functional information gathering, drafts grant applications and reports, and maintains accurate grant records.

Additionally, the role provides portfolio and general advancement support by preparing donor meeting materials, drafting communications, tracking pledges and payments, and facilitating internal follow‑up tasks. It also plays an important role in ensuring the efficiency and effectiveness of the organization’s institutional giving processes. The Manager, Institutional Giving will collaborate across departments to craft proposals, execute donor engagement activities, and prepare stewardship reports.

This role reports to the Director of Foundation Relations and works closely with the Director of Corporate Partnership and Engagement.

The ideal candidate is self‑motivated, organized, detail‑oriented, and driven to deliver critical functions of Advancement Team operations. This person must have excellent writing and communications skills, an entrepreneurial mindset, and alignment with the mission and core values of Good Reason Houston.

• Assist the Director of Foundation Relations and Director of Corporate Partnerships and Engagement in executing a multi‑year strategy for increasing institutional gifts.
• Support a range of activities to cultivate and steward donors and prospects (e.g., conduct initial prospect research, create donor profiles, draft meeting preparation, prepare meeting folders, direct mailings, etc.).
• Expand institutional giving prospect pipeline, identifying and researching new institutional giving prospects, giving potential, timelines, etc.
• Craft compelling, story‑driven visual materials that effectively communicate Good Reason Houston’s mission and impact to inspire institutional donors and secure funding.
• Maintain a comprehensive view of funding pipelines across all institutional revenue streams, identifying trends and generating strategic recommendations for funding priorities.
• Ensure impeccable donor stewardship (sufficient appreciation outreach, meet progress reporting, and update meeting requirements and requests, etc.).
• Ensure all substantive donor interactions (e.g. emails, meetings, written outreach, etc.) are logged in Raiser’s Edge NXT…