Legacy Giving VISTA

AmeriCorps & Senior Corps; California; On-site; USD 15,000 - 18,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Childcare assistance

Education Award or End of Service Stip

Health Coverage

Living Allowance

Stipend

Training

Job summary

Step Up seeks a dedicated VISTA member to support the VISTA project focused on expanding fundraising capacity, building community infrastructure, and elevating national visibility for Step Up's programs. You will help grow resources, partnerships, and awareness to empower low-income girls and young women across the country.

The role involves developing donor strategies, creating educational materials, and supporting program expansion into new markets while collaborating with teams nationwide.

Qualifications

• Experience in nonprofit fundraising or donor relations.
• Ability to develop donor communications and cultivation plans.
• Strong writing and editing skills for compelling materials.

Responsibilities

• Develop a research methodology and populate an initial donor prospect list.
• Create a clear qualification framework for major vs membership donors.
• Develop a legacy giving case for support with mission-forward narrative.
• Create donor education materials on planned giving vehicles.

Skills

Communications

Community Organization

Fund raising/Grant Writing

Writing/Editing

Team Work

Job description

Step Up's VISTA project is organized around three strategic pillars: Resource Innovation, Scalable Reach, and Brand Prominence. Each pillar addresses a specific organizational barrier limiting Step Up's ability to reach low-income girls and young women at scale: insufficient fundraising infrastructure, insufficient community infrastructure to enter new markets, and insufficient visibility to ensure young people in those markets know Step Up exists. The project will seek to build the organizational capacity, community infrastructure, and fundraising systems needed to expand Step Up's programming into new markets, develop a partnership model for young women and teen girls, schools and districts and elevate Step Up's national visibility to ensure young people in low-income communities across the country can access the mentorship and career readiness resources they need to move out of poverty and into economic self-sufficiency.

Member Duties :

• Develop a research methodology, identifying screening tools, and populating an initial prospect list with basic wealth indicators and connection points to Step Up's mission
• Develop qualification criteria —a clear, documented framework for what makes someone a major donor prospect versus a membership-level donor, so the team can make consistent decisions about where to invest cultivation time
• Develop a legacy giving case for support —a compelling, mission-forward narrative that explains why a planned gift to Step Up is a meaningful investment in the long-term future of young women
• Create planned giving education materials —donor-facing resources that explain the mechanics of common planned giving vehicles (bequests, beneficiary designations, charitable gift annuities) in plain language, without providing legal advice

Program Benefits :

• Childcare assistance if eligible
• Choice of Education Award or End of Service Stipend
• Education award upon successful completion of service
• Health Coverage*
• Living Allowance
• Stipend
• Training

Terms :

• Permits attendance at school during off hours
• Permits working at another job during off hours

Service Areas :

• Community and Economic Development
• Community Outreach
• Children/Youth.

Skills :

• Communications
• Community Organization
• Fund raising/Grant Writing
• Writing/Editing
• Team Work.

Program Locations

• CALIFORNIA
• GEORGIA
• ILLINOIS
• NEW YORK
• TENNESSEE
• TEXASAtlanta
• Chicago
• Dallas/Ft. Worth
• Houston/Galveston
• Los Angeles/Orange County
• New York City (inc. Long Island CT NJ NY)
• San Francisco/Oakland/San Jose