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  • 1.  Fundraising Coordiator / Team

    Posted 6 days ago

    Hi all ! 

    Hoping someone can help guide us towards a right path on finding and selecting a fundraising coordinator for a foster-based rescue in NYC. 

    • Where to search for a fundraising coordinator?
    • How to keep them engaged and not feeling down from the lack of immediate success 
    • How to encourage stewardship etc  

    And perhaps, in your specific, individual cases - what worked for you? how did you find this individual to join? what was discussed initially and what attainable goals were set? 

    Looking to start 2026 with new ideas and new movement - thank you so much in advance for any and all advice. 


    #FundraisingandDevelopment
    #MarketingandSocialMedia
    #OrganizationalManagement
    #PeopleManagement(includingVolunteerIntegration)
    #RemoteCustomerService*

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    Stella Plit
    President
    Rescue City
    NY
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  • 2.  RE: Fundraising Coordiator / Team

    Posted 5 days ago

    After 45 years as a professional fund raiser, you're thinking all the right things here.  My advice:  Look at the colleges and universities in your area; also hospitals/health care for people with some experience but who are "down in the organization" at these institutions.  Same with some of the other bigger charities in NYC.  You want someone with experience and who wants to "move up" in the field.  Salary is a big thing with a new position.  Please try to make yours somewhat competitive.  Most fund raisers are resilient in regard to  coping with "turn downs" when engaging with donors.  Talk about that in the interview process to get an idea of the emotions of the candidate.  In the interview I would talk about your desire for strong stewardship and ask the candidate how they would go about stewarding donors.   I always looked for "cultural fit" when I hired a fund raiser.  I had a primarily female group and if I was hiring either a woman or a man, I talked about our culture in the interview and how it was important.  I had a staff of 19 and when I retired, the average tenure of the group was 12 years, so fitting our culture was a key and it helped in retention.  Best of Success in your search!



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    Bruce Thorsen
    President, Board of Directors
    Purrfect Match Cat Rescue
    Millington TN
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    Original Message


  • 3.  RE: Fundraising Coordiator / Team

    Posted 2 days ago

    We got extremely lucky by finding a volunteer with grant and fundraising experience, willing to donate her time and expertise to us. She is remote and works for a financial institution, and has been an extraordinary asset for our rescue. She was a coworker of a former board member, and a fellow cat lover. We have had success finding marketing and social media volunteers using Volunteer Match and posting on our social media. 

    Our development volunteer inherited a spreadsheet started by our founding members that listed various donors/grants and she went from there. We now utilize Bloomerang for all donor data tracking, email newsletters/pleas, and I track all acknowledgements through it as well. Bloomerang connects to our website through Stripe for donations and automatically inputs. I like their reports + how I can create various groups of monthly donors, one time, lapsed etc to peruse historically. She continues to research and find grants for us to apply to, and our team supports her in providing all details RE: asks, follow ups, stories, follow up needs since she is remote/not actually in the day to day with our kitties! 

    We are exploring investing in grant software this year to see if it might help us garner more leads, specifically Instrumentl's Standard Plan. She actually asked her grandmother to donate for it as her holiday gift-so sweet! Paws crossed it helps. Even finding one $5,000 grant would make it worth it ($3600 software). 



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    Katie Frederick
    Board President
    Newborn Kitten Rescue
    AZ
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