Parents Helping Parents seeks an experienced fundraiser to serve as Associate Director of Development to identify and cultivate individual and institutional donors and support the team’s efforts to diversify revenue and build partnerships. Please click to view the full position description or to nominate/apply.
Parents Helping Parents (PHP) supports parents of children with disabilities in Santa Clara County and beyond by offering ongoing individualized support. PHP honors individual experiences and backgrounds, enables families to overcome barriers, and helps parents to confidently advocate for their children with autism, ADD/ADHD, dyslexia and other learning challenges, chronic illness, mental health conditions, developmental and intellectual disabilities, physical disabilities and more. PHP also mobilizes parents for advocacy work and trains parent leaders on how to lobby and advocate. In FY25, PHP offered approximately 20,000 direct services to nearly 7,000 families and professionals, and its website and social media channels provide information to 200,000 parents and professionals per year. Most of PHP’s staff and Board members are parents of children with disabilities, and it’s this level of empathy that has created a community where all individuals are valued, respected, and included.
The organization’s operating budget is $3.8M, and it has a staff of 33 and a 12-member Board. FY26 projected sources of income are roughly 52% from government grants, 23% from corporations and foundations, 16% from individuals and 9% from the annual gala. For the past decade PHP has grown steadily at about $250K a year and has a goal of continuing at that pace.
Reporting to the Executive Director (ED), the Associate Director is PHP’s hands-on fundraiser. The Associate Director is personally responsible for: managing and soliciting a portfolio of PHP’s top 60 donors; running the annual campaign; soliciting and writing grants; assembling information and reports, including on status of grants, donor solicitations, and departmental budgets; producing the annual gala; and keeping accurate donor records in Salesforce so that progress can be tracked against targets.
The Associate Director supports the ED with PHP’s top ten donors and top-tier gala sponsors, prepares materials and briefings for Board members’ fundraising, and works with the fundraising consultant or ED on the annual campaign. Overall agency growth is the responsibility of the ED.
Accountability is an important PHP value. Each year, the Associate Director will develop quarterly and annual targets for their own individual giving, foundation and corporate support, local government grants, and for the annual gala, which the ED will review and agree to. The ED and other members of the leadership team have their own goals, which are tracked separately. Progress will be reviewed quarterly with the ED, and success will be measured by achieving revenue targets. The Associate Director will also work with the ED to set goals for and monitor activity such as meaningful donor contacts per month and grant proposals in the pipeline. As the organization evolves and contributed revenue increases, the Associate Director may take on additional responsibilities.
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For additional information or to apply, please contact Lisa Grossman and Steve Oppenheim at info[at]moppenheim[dot]com.