Community Giving Coordinator

Description

About Health Finders Collaborative For more than 20 years, Health Finders Collaborative has been a trusted, community-powered hub for health and connection across southern Minnesota. We provide accessible, culturally relevant, whole-person care through school-based clinics, mobile outreach, behavioral health, dental care, and more. Our care model is relational and rooted in our values of dignity, equity, connection, and trust. We believe everyone deserves to be seen, supported, and cared for, regardless of insurance status, income, or background.

As Health Finders Collaborative’s Community Giving Associate, you’ll help build meaningful relationships between Health Finders and the people who make our work possible. This is a next-step fundraising role designed for someone with some fundraising or related experience who is ready to deepen their skills while learning Health Finders’ values-based approach to fundraising. You’ll receive coaching and hands-on experience managing your own donor portfolio while supporting broader donor engagement strategies across the organization.

This role offers the opportunity to build fundraising skills, grow your experience, and potentially move into a position with greater responsibility over time. This position is part of Health Finders’ Advancement Team, which includes fundraising, communications, and community engagement. Together, we build strategies that center equity, community, and care. We are values-based fundraisers integrating Community-Centric principles into our work.

• Manage a portfolio of approximately 50 individual donors ranging in gift size from $500 to $5,000.
• Learn and practice values-based donor qualification, cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.
• Build relationships with donors through meetings, phone calls, email, and other personalized outreach.
• Work alongside the Executive Director to develop fundraising strategies while gradually taking greater ownership of donor relationships.
• Help donors connect their values with Health Finders’ mission and impact.

• Support fundraising strategies for major and mid-level donors within your portfolio and the Executive Director’s portfolio.
• Help plan and facilitate donor gatherings, learning opportunities, and other cultivation activities.
• Partner with the Executive Director to identify donors who may be ready for deeper one-to-one engagement.
• Recruit, support, and steward Community Builders (table hosts at our annual fundraiser) as a strategy to engage donors, cultivate relationships, increase giving, and contribute to expansion of Health Finders’ donor base.

• Learn and support Health Finders’ annual appeal strategies.
• Coordinate with consultants supporting appeal development and implementation.
• Help prepare stewardship materials, donor communications, and fundraising stories.

• Participate in donor strategy meetings and Advancement Team planning.
• Maintain accurate donor records and activity in Salesforce.
• Collaborate with staff, volunteers, and consultants to advance fundraising goals.
• Participate in ongoing coaching and professional development in values-based fundraising.

You have a 2-5 of years of experience in fundraising, nonprofit work, and/or community engagement, sales, customer relationship management, volunteer coordination, or another relationship-centered field, and you’re excited to continue growing. You’re organized, self-directed, and able to manage multiple priorities. You’re comfortable using technology such as Microsoft Office and Salesforce (or another CRM), or you’re eager to learn. You’re excited to build your fundraising skills with the support of a skilled team, an Executive Director who is directly involved in fundraising and major gifts, mentorship from others, and hands-on experience.

You’re interested in growing into increased responsibility over time. You enjoy working with a team, sharing meals, stories, and care for each other as we take on the difficult and rewarding work of shifting healthcare system to work better for all patients.

• Experience working with donors or volunteers directly.
• Experience supporting fundraising appeals or donor communications.
• Knowledge or connection to the Faribault, Owatonna and/or Northfield communities.
• Awareness of systemic inequities and a desire to challenge them through your work.
• Spanish or Somali language proficiency.