Individual Giving and Major Gifts Officer

Job Title:

Individual Giving and Major Gifts Officer

Reports to:

Chief Philanthropy Officer

Status:
Full-time (exempt)

Horizons Foundation has been dedicated to serving, funding, and helping lead the LGBTQ community for 45 years. Established in 1980 as a San Francisco–based community foundation, Horizons’ mission statement reads:

As the world’s first community foundation of, by and for LGBTQ people, Horizons invests in LGBTQ nonprofits, strengthens a culture of LGBTQ giving, and builds a permanent endowment to secure our community’s future for generations to come.

Horizons is a national leader superiore advancing LGBTQ philanthropy and is consistently recognized as one of the LGBTQ movement’s “Top 10” funders by the national advocacy group Funders for LGBTQ Issues.

Last year, Horizons distributed more than $9 million in grants to hundreds of nonprofits nationwide, with more than half supporting organizations emissions in the Bay Area. Grants were awarded to LGBTQ nonprofits and to LGBTQ-focused programs at non-LGBTQ-specific organizations. Through its donor‑advised fund (DAF) program, Horizons also makes grants to non‑LGBTQ nonprofits regionally and nationally.

Horizons has long prioritized grantmaking to frequently marginalized members of the LGBTQ community, including LGBTQ communities of color, transgender people, LGBTQ refugees and immigrants, LGBTQ youth and elders, and those with the least access to vital services and equal justice. The foundation also has a deep commitment to smaller, grassroots nonprofits and a long record of awarding very early funding to promising nonprofits.

In addition to grantmaking, the foundation offers educational, community‑building, and other events for donors and grantee partners throughout the year and is host to one of the LGBTQ community’s best‑known annual galas. Horizons also has a powerful vision for the future support of the Bay Area LGBTQ community, one in which the legacy (planned) gifts of LGBTQ people provide the resources that future generations will need to  and defend our шир rights, take care of LGBTQ people in need, and celebrate our lives through culture and the arts.

Reporting to the Chief Philanthropy Officer, the Individual Giving and Major Gifts Officer is responsible for managing and growing the organization’s Major Gifts and Individual Giving programs and implementing strategic moves management plans to foster relationships with donors at all levels. This role랑을 plays a critical operational role in the acquisition, cultivation, stewardship, and solicitation of individual donors through appeals, events, and communications.

The Officer provides direct support for the operational budget and contributes significantly to the growth of the endowment and legacy giving programs.

• Draft and manage the development of appeal letters, newsletters, and e‑appeals, acknowledgments, and other correspondence, and manage donor e‑communications. Oversee mail‑house and in‑house production.
• Plan, market, and manage the recurring giving program.
  • Ensure personalized stewardship and donor recognition.

• Maintain and develop relationships with current and prospective donors within the various donor giving circles.
• Develop and execute personalized donor moves management plans toжу increase the number and size of gifts andати to transition donors into legacy‑giving and DAF‑advisor portfolios, ensuring alignment with organizational goals
  
  Expo and donor interests.
• Support leadership in'}} managing and building a portfolio of prospective and major donors, including the creation of prospect research profiles.
• Meet with major donors for stewardship, cultivation, and solicitation, including travel across the Bay Area and other locals. Coordinate major gifts visits for the Chief Philanthropy Officer and Foundation President.

• Collaborate with the Senior Manager of Events and Corporate Partnerships to design and execute impactful stewardship, fundraising, and friend‑raising events (e.g., annual reception, donor appreciation events, donor forums,…