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Executive Director of a small literacy nonprofit
ORGANIZATION: Access Books Bay Area
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Company Description
Access Books Bay Area is a 501(c)3 nonprofit organization that aims to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, culturally relevant books, and renovated library spaces. The organization provides books to low-income schools where at least 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Access Books Bay Area believes that every child has the right to access high-quality school library spaces and collections that will help foster their love of reading.
Role Description
This is a hybrid volunteer role located in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Nonprofit Executive Director will be responsible for day-to-day operations, fundraising, program development, and marketing. They will report to the board and work closely with the Operations team and board president. Work will be mainly completed remotely, including board meetings, with quarterly on-site projects.
Qualifications
- Fundraising and development experience
- Program development and management experience
- Marketing and communication skills
- Nonprofit experience
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Nonprofit Management, Business Administration, Education, or related field
- Experience in grant writing, donor cultivation, and major gifts preferred
- Familiarity with the Bay Area nonprofit community preferred
To find out more about our organization, please visit https://www.accessbooksbayarea.org. Please send your resumé and linkedin along with a statement of interest.
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About Access Books Bay Area
Location:
80 Harriet Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, US
Mission Statement
Our mission is to level the literacy playing field for K-8 students living in poverty by providing high quality, high-interest, culturally relevant books, and a transformed school library space that invites students to spend time and read. We believe that books change lives, and that for children living in poverty, the school library is the best way to connect children with pleasure reading books. Studies have shown that reading for pleasure is one of the single greatest indicators of future academic success, yet the state of California provides no dedicated funding for school libraries, and many of the schools in the Bay Area have not funded their school libraries for decades, leading to out-dated collections and unattractive facilities. Our organization changes lives by making sure that the school library is an attractive place full of wonderful, interesting, recent, and culturally relevant books that will help them become lifelong readers.
Description
We provide books to low-income schools where approximately 90 percent of students live at or below the poverty line. Most students at the schools we serve are children of color and children of immigrants. Our organization provides brand new, hardcover, high quality books to school libraries and gently used books to teachers for classroom libraries, as well as improving the library space by painting colorful, reading-based murals and providing new comfortable reading furniture.
We complete 2-3 library renovation projects each academic year, each taking place on a Saturday from 9am - 2pm. Volunteers from partner community service organizations collect the gently used books to be donated and provide volunteers for the project day.
We serve school around the bay area, although most of our work to date has been concentrated in the south bay and peninsula areas. We have renovated nine elementary and middle school libraries in high poverty areas to date, and have applications pending for four more, one of which will be renovated this spring.
CAUSE AREAS
Board Development,
Children & Youth,
Education & Literacy
WHEN
We'll work with your schedule.
WHERE
Multiple locations Palo Alto, CA 94303
(37.453056 ,-122.11783 )
DATE POSTED
November 22, 2024
SKILLS
- Executive Admin
- Strategic Planning
- Budgeting
- Business Development
- Donor Management
- Fundraising
GOOD FOR
N/A
REQUIREMENTS
- This position requires attendance at the monthly one hour long board meetings, in addition to approximately 5-10 hours per week of other work.
- Experience in the nonprofit sector OR in business development and strategy in general needed. Please send your resumé and linkedin profile.