Director of Philanthropy/Remote
Oakland, Alameda County, California, 94616, USA
Listed on 2026-10-12
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Non-Profit & Social Impact
Fundraising / Charity
Free Law Project is a nonprofit that works to provide access to the law for everyone. Our Court Listener and RECAP tools give millions of people free access to court records. Through our Justice Initiatives division, we build tools for those who face the courts with the fewest resources: self-represented litigants, public defenders, and legal aid organizations. We believe open, transparent courts are essential to democracy and justice.
Free Law Project is a growing organization that is looking for a strategic, hands-on development director. The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for synthesizing the many fundraising opportunities available to the organization and will develop a plan for optimizing and executing them, including the opportunity to recruit and hire support, if needed.
Free Law Project has a growing membership and small donor base, strong institutional support, reliable program services revenue, and many opportunities to develop large donors. The organization had three million in revenue in 2025, around 2.5 million through program services and about 0.5 million through donations. The new director of fundraising will work closely with our executive director to increase that donation stream in the coming years.
Thetop priorities of this position are to:
- Work with our executive director to develop and execute short, medium, and long term fundraising plans.
- Develop and execute a communications plan to support our fundraising efforts
- Act as a frontline fundraiser with small and large donors to establish a pipeline of donors and grants.
- Continue to build the systems, processes, and infrastructure needed to create a sustainable and scalable fundraising program.
- Identify and hire any necessary support.
- Lead annual giving efforts and pursue opportunities across major gifts, online fundraising, planned giving, corporate partnerships, and foundation grants.
- Build the systems and processes needed to support and scale the development program, including improving our existing donor data management, prospect tracking, gift acknowledgment and stewardship, revenue forecasting, and reporting.
- Evaluate opportunities to establish and fund an endowment or pseudo-endowment.
- Manage our fundraising platforms and tools directly or, as the program grows, through additional development staff.
- Develop compelling and accurate proposals, donor correspondence, and other fundraising and stewardship materials.
- Represent Free Law Project with donors, funders, partners, and other key constituencies.
Free Law Project is a nonprofit that works to provide access to the law for everyone. Our Court Listener and RECAP tools give millions of people free access to court records. Through our Justice Initiatives division, we build tools for those who face the courts with the fewest resources: self-represented litigants, public defenders, and legal aid organizations. We believe open, transparent courts are essential to democracy and justice.
Free Law Project is a growing organization that is looking for a strategic, hands-on development director. The successful candidate for this role will be responsible for synthesizing the many fundraising opportunities available to the organization and will develop a plan for optimizing and executing them, including the opportunity to recruit and hire support, if needed.
Free Law Project has a growing membership and small donor base, strong institutional support, reliable program services revenue, and many opportunities to develop large donors. The organization had three million in revenue in 2025, around 2.5 million through program services and about 0.5 million through donations. The new director of fundraising will work closely with our executive director to increase that donation stream in the coming years.
Free Law Project is a particularly technical non-profit, with a large audience via its web properties, an email list of over 100,000, browser extension, and social channels. An understanding of basic Web technologies and the technology zeitgeist - what an API is, what extensions can do, how AI impacts society for good and ill, etc are a plus but not required for this job.
Thetop priorities of this position are to:
- Work with our executive director to develop and execute short, medium, and long term fundraising plans.
- Develop and execute a communications plan to support our fundraising…
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