Development Coordinator

The Dream Yard Vision:

Building Artists
- Building Community
- Building Dreams
- To change the world.

Dream Yard (DY), founded in 1994, is a Bronx-based organization that uses the arts, social justice pedagogy, and digital and connected learning to inspire youth, public schools, and communities. Dream Yard’s yearlong arts programs develop artistic voices, nurture young people's desire to make change, and cultivate the skills necessary to reach positive goals. By committing to sustained learning opportunities along an educational pathway, with 45 partnering public schools K-12th Grade, with our own DY Prep HS School and at the Dream Yard Art Center in Morrisania, Dream Yard supports young people as they work toward higher learning, meaningful careers, and social action.

We seek to be effective locally while having a national and international impact through partnerships, collaboration, and learning exchanges.

At Dream Yard, we commit to being an anti-racist organization. We lead with race because we operate in a country founded on the genocide of Indigenous people, the enslavement of African people, and the oppression of countless others. We acknowledge the role this history plays in perpetuating inequity and dominant white culture.

Dream Yard is focused on the Bronx, a borough that possesses incredible cultural, human and economic assets. In addition to working throughout the Bronx, Dream Yard partners with local, national and international communities to utilize the arts to build bridges to opportunity. The organization believes that the arts are a necessary part of developing our local assets to their greatest potential.

Reporting to the Director of Development, the Development Coordinator supports all of Dream Yard’s fundraising activities, with a particular focus on development operations, individual giving and stewardship, grants administration, and events.

The Development Coordinator works extensively within Dream Yard’s CRM (Little Green Light) to ensure Development data is accurate, complete, and useful; processes and acknowledges gifts; tracks donor and prospect engagement; coordinates grant deadlines, supporting documentation, and reporting requirements; supports individual giving campaigns and donor cultivation; and produces reports and analysis that inform fundraising strategy.

This position is well suited to an organized, detail-oriented development professional who enjoys working with data and systems as much as working with people. The successful candidate will be comfortable managing recurring processes independently, identifying gaps or inconsistencies, and helping develop more effective systems as Dream Yard expands its fundraising program.

This is a hybrid role. Minimum in-person requirement is one day a week every other week, with additional in-person attendance required for staff workshops, special events, and program visits.

Development Operations, CRM & Data

• Maintain accurate and complete donor, prospect, institutional, event, gift, and engagement records in Little Green Light.

• Process gifts and maintain complete and accurate contribution records, including appropriate documentation, coding, and donor information.

• Conduct regular database audits and resolve duplicate, incomplete, or inconsistent records.

• Identify data gaps, inconsistencies, and opportunities to improve Development tracking and workflows.

Individual Giving & Donor Stewardship

• Prepare timely donor acknowledgements, tax receipts, and other stewardship correspondence.

• Maintain donor stewardship and cultivation plans and track correspondence, meetings, solicitations, and other touchpoints in Little…