Vice President of Development YMCA of Greater Boston Boston, MA http://www.ymcaboston.org Send Nominations or Cover Letter and Resume to: Maureen Huminik Vice President 617-262-1102 mhuminik@lllsearches.com The Opportunity: Founded in 1851 as America s first YMCA, the YMCA (Y) of Greater Boston has strengthened the Greater Boston community through a focus on youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. As the community s leading nonprofit, it is dedicated to nurturing the potential of every child and teen, improving the community s health and well-being, and providing opportunities to give back and support its neighbors. Each year the YMCA enables more than 100,000 youth, adults, and seniors to be healthy, confident, connected, and secure. Today the YMCA of Greater Boston ranks as one of the largest urban Ys in the nation, staying true to its roots as a values-driven, volunteer-led, human service organization strengthening children, families, and YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 1
communities. The Y's staff, volunteers, and constituents represent the broad spectrum of citizens, by any and all measures, who live in Greater Boston. The Y is the largest provider of after-school programs and child care in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, offers the state's largest summer youth employment program, involves more than 10,000 children in summer camps, and leverages resources to provide over $10.3 million in critical services at no cost to low-income participants. As financial, demographic and social forces create a "New Boston", the YMCA continues to provide centers of community life for children, families, and all others in the neighborhoods and towns of the region. This is an ideal opportunity for a seasoned development professional to encourage and inspire donors and community members to deepen their connections to the YMCA s most important community work. Position Overview Vice President of Development The YMCA of Greater Boston seeks an energetic fundraiser as Vice President of Development. In this newly created role, the Vice President of Development will report to the Senior Vice President of Development and Communications. This position develops strategies and solicitation plans in concert with volunteer and YMCA leadership, and participates in the solicitation process as appropriate. The incoming Vice President will manage a portfolio of top donors and prospects, as well as manage Association strategy and execution of the annual campaign and the Y s largest annual fundraiser. The Vice President works closely with YMCA leadership to execute overall fundraising goals. This position also serves as a member of the Y s senior leadership team. The incoming Vice President will manage a team of eight. Required Skills: Essential Duties and Responsibilities: Working with development staff and senior leadership, project, track and meet fundraising goals annually. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 2
Create annual business plan to meet philanthropic financial goals. Analyze results and adjust plans accordingly. Manage team of six fundraisers, including annual fund and corporate and foundation relations staff. Support the expansion of Heritage Club program and help to develop marketing efforts to boards, past Y members, and friends. Donor Management: Serve as prospect manager for more than fifty major donor prospects (including prospect research and strategy development). Work closely with CEO and SVP to define new initiatives designed to increase the donor base such as the 1851 Leadership Society, President s Roundtable, YMCA Champion, and new initiatives to be identified. Collaborate with CEO, SVP, and Development staff on identification, cultivation, and stewardship opportunities for major gift donors and prospects. Work with senior leaders within the YMCA of Greater Boston, including executive directors at the branches, in a concerted effort to develop major gift prospects, maximizing efficiency and productivity. Participate in solicitations as appropriate. Compose special proposals and letters to major gifts donors as appropriate. Research prospects and donors as needed. Volunteer and Senior Management Staffing: Staff Financial Development Committee, including strategy sessions with Chair, development of Committee agenda, production of materials, and staff follow-up from meetings to drive next steps. Staff Special Event Committee, including working with volunteers and event planner on branding of signature event, renewing and securing lead sponsors, and oversight of all collateral materials. Oversee implementation of donor strategies with key volunteers and YMCA staff. Work with CEO and SVP to set activity and revenue goals for major gifts and annual fund efforts and monitor progress toward these goals. Develop briefings, letters, proposals and related materials for key volunteers, CEO, and SVP as it relates to prospects and donors. Perform special tasks, duties, and projects as assigned. Position Requirements: Bachelor s degree required. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 3
Eight to ten years of fundraising experience. Proven fundraiser with campaign, major gifts, and annual fundraising experience. Team-oriented leader with strong management skills. Strong verbal and written communication skills, organizational and analytical skills; project management skills. Experience with Board volunteer management and ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality. Ability to work independently as well as part of a team; flexibility and sense of humor. Proficient in Raiser s Edge and Microsoft Office. Commitment to the YMCA mission. Evening and weekend work is expected and may be required. YMCA Competencies (Team Leader): Mission Advancement: Models and teaches the Y s values. Ensures a high level of service with a commitment to changing lives. Provides volunteers with orientation, training, development, and recognition. Cultivates relationships to support fundraising. Collaboration: Champions inclusion activities, strategies, and initiatives. Builds relationships to create small communities. Empathetically listens and communicates for understanding when negotiating and dealing with conflict. Effectively tailors communications to the appropriate audience. Provides staff with feedback, coaching, guidance, and support. Operational Effectiveness: Provides others with frameworks for making decisions. Conducts prototypes to support the launching of programs and activities. Develops plans and manages best practices through engagement of team. Effectively creates and manages budgets. Holds staff accountable for high-quality results using a formal process to measure progress. Personal Growth: Shares new insights. Facilitates change; models adaptability and an awareness of the impact of change. Utilizes non-threatening methods to address sensitive issues and inappropriate behavior or performance. Has the functional and technical knowledge and skills required to perform well; uses best practices and demonstrates up-to-date knowledge and skills in technology. Equal Opportunity Employer - Drug Free Workplace YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 4
Benefits: The YMCA of Greater Boston provides full-time employees with exceptional benefits. For details, please click here. Development Overview The YMCA of Greater Boston currently operates under a $75 million budget, of which the Development Department needs to raise $6.5 million. Funds raised each year include individual giving (major gifts, annual campaign), Corporate and Foundation giving, and United Way giving. The organization also hosts a major fundraising event each year. Over the past five years, corporate and foundation giving has raised between $15 million and $18 million annually. The annual fund has seen steady growth and raised $3.2 million in 2015. The organization s Strategic Plan 2.0 is being launched, and planning will begin for the organization s next capital campaign. Client Overview The YMCA is the nation's leading nonprofit committed to strengthening communities through youth development, healthy living, and social responsibility. The YMCA (Y) of Greater Boston is dedicated to fulfilling this mission in support of individuals and families in its communities. The Y welcomes men and women, boys and girls of all incomes, faiths and cultures. The Y makes accessible the support and opportunities that empower people and communities to learn, grow, and thrive. With a focus on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, the Y nurtures the potential of every youth and teen, improves the nation's health and well-being, and provides opportunities to give back and support neighbors. There is no other nonprofit quite like the Y. That's because, in neighborhoods across Greater Boston, it has the presence and partnerships to not just promise, but deliver, positive change. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 5
The Y is community-centered. For more than 150 years, it has been listening and responding to its communities. The Y brings people together. It connects people of all ages and backgrounds to bridge the gaps in community needs. The Y nurtures potential. It believes that everyone should have the opportunity to learn, grow, and thrive. The Y mobilizes local communities to effect lasting, meaningful change. The Y is, and always will be, dedicated to building healthy, confident, connected and secure children, adults, families, and communities. Every day its impact is felt when an individual makes a healthy choice, when a mentor inspires a child, and when a community comes together for the common good. History: In 1851, a group of evangelicals from several Boston churches, led by retired sea captain and lay preacher Thomas Valentine Sullivan, founded the first YMCA in the United States. Modeled on the original YMCA established in London in 1844 by George Williams, this new organization offered a safe gathering place, opportunities for socializing, bible-study classes, and prayer meetings. Sullivan explained that the Y's mission was to "meet the young stranger as he enters our city, take him by the hand, direct him to a boarding house where he may find a quiet home... and in every way throw around him good influences, so that he may feel that he is not a stranger." Future evangelist Dwight L. Moody, who arrived in Boston in 1853 from his family's farm in Northfield, Massachusetts, wrote home about the Y, a place where he could read "all the books I want free" and hear "smart men from Boston lecture." The organization quickly outgrew its first home in fourth floor rooms at Washington and Summer streets in downtown Boston. In the Y's new quarters at the corner of Tremont Street and Temple Place, it offered many services for its members: library and reading room, gymnasium, classes and lectures, social gatherings, employment assistance, and a register of respectable boarding houses. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 6
Over the succeeding half-century, the Boston YMCA evolved, serving Union soldiers on the battlefields of the Civil War, supporting new waves of immigrants arriving to work in the factories of the industrial revolution, and establishing branches in several neighborhoods of the city. In the 1880s, the Y's first physical education instructor, Robert J. Roberts, created the fitness movement in America through his new exercise program for "bodybuilding." Classes utilized exercise drills, wooden dumbbells, "Indian Clubs," and heavy medicine balls. Two lasting innovations of the new fitness movement were the invention of the game of basketball at the Y's Springfield College in 1891 and volleyball at the Holyoke YMCA in 1895. In 1896 its popular self-improvement lectures were organized into the "Evening Institute for Young Men," managed by Frank Palmer Speare. Demand was so high that in 1898 law classes were added, followed by polytechnic courses and business and engineering programs. Over the next twenty years the Y incorporated these programs into its Northeastern College, soon changed to Northeastern University of the Boston YMCA. In 1929 the Y purchased the old Red Sox field on Huntington Avenue and broke ground for the first university in the country based on the work-study concept, becoming known simply as Northeastern University. Speare served as president of Northeastern until 1940. It was not until 1948 that the university and the YMCA became completely separate institutions. In 1899, the Y hosted its first summer camping season at Sandy Island Men's Camp at Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. In subsequent years the Y purchased or leased property to provide additional camping programs that continue today: Camp Dorchester (1923) at Ponkapoag in the Canton's Blue Hills, North Woods (1928) and Pleasant Valley (1968) also at Winnipesaukee, and Camp Wakanda on Styles Pond in Boxford. Throughout the the twentieth century, the YMCA of Greater Boston continued and strengthened its tradition of service. The new flagship branch on Huntington Avenue was completed in 1912, dedicated by U.S. President William Howard Taft with 5,000 people watching, including Boston Mayor John Fitzgerald. New neighborhood branches and mergers of independent YMCAs fueled continued growth, in Hyde Park, Dorchester, West Roxbury, Chinatown, Roxbury, Brighton, Needham, Waltham, Woburn, Reading, and East Boston. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 7
In 1975, the Black Achievers YMCA was launched to recognize African-American professionals for their career accomplishments and to develop a mentoring program for teens. Focused on social responsibility and creating a college-bound culture, the former Black Achievers Program changed its name to YMCA Achievers in 2010 to reach a wider, more diverse audience of teens and professionals nationwide. In 1984, the YMCA Training, Inc. program was created and later combined with the International Learning Center to provide workforce training, computer skills, and English as a second language classes. In 1995, the Huntington Avenue YMCA converted dorm-style rooms to create 88 affordable permanent and transitional housing units for formerly homeless single adults and families. In 2007, the formerly independent Boston Armed Services YMCA in Charlestown's former Navy Yard, founded in 1917, became the Constitution Inn YMCA of the YMCA of Greater Boston. In 2011, the name was changed to Charlestown YMCA. With a focus on youth development, healthy living and social responsibility, the YMCA of Greater Boston continues to be the largest provider of social services in Massachusetts. Background Checks: Prior to submitting your resume for this position, please read it over for accuracy. LLLS does verify academic credentials for its candidates, and our clients frequently conduct background checks prior to finalizing an offer. To learn more, call Maureen Huminik, Vice President at 617-262-1102 or send nominations or cover letter and resume to mhuminik@lllsearches.com. All inquiries will be held in confidence. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 8
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Appendix Leadership: James O S. Morton, Esq. President and CEO YMCA of Greater Boston James O S. Morton is the 13th President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston. James joined the Greater Boston Y in 2015 after serving at YMCAs in Hartford, CT and Springfield, MA YMCAs. Prior to joining the YMCA of Greater Boston, James served as President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Hartford where the Y experienced double-digit growth in contributions; developed innovative programming; improved the membership engagement experience; and built many collaborative relationships. He led a successful $15 million capital campaign and launched a new strategic plan to guide the work of the organization. He also has a deep personal and professional connection to workforce development and education, having served as a leader at two workforce development agencies and an educator in the Springfield, MA public school system. James earned a Bachelor of Arts in sociology from the University of Wisconsin and a Juris Doctorate from Northeastern University School of Law. He is a current member of the Massachusetts Bar Association, serves on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, and is a trustee of Springfield College. In addition, he has served on numerous YMCA of the USA committees and task forces around brand management, executive leadership, and multiculturalism. James has a compelling personal history that exemplifies the positive impact that the Y makes. With an African-American father and mother of Irish descent, James often laughingly introduces himself as Black Irish, and his background and personality provide him with a unique ability to forge meaningful connections with everyone that he meets. James is a world-class runner and continues to run competitively. In 2008, James was the national Master s champion and #2 in the world in the 800 meter in his age bracket. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 10
Kelley Rice Senior Vice President, Development & Communications YMCA of Greater Boston Reporting directly to the President and CEO of the YMCA of Greater Boston, Kelley Rice has served as the Senior Vice President of Development & Communications for the YMCA of Greater Boston since February 2011. As a member of the senior management team, Rice is responsible for the Y s financial development, goals, objectives and success; development and implementation of annual marketing campaign to raise the Y s profile as a cause driven organization while meeting membership and program enrollment expectations; and corporate communications, branding, and media relations. Working with the President and CEO, she serves as a key liaison with members of the General Board of Directors, Board of Overseers and leading funders for the organization. Additionally, Rice serves as the lead staff person to three of the Y s seven standing committees: Financial Development, Nominating & Board Development, and Key Leaders Council. Prior to joining the Greater Boston Y, Rice served as communications director for the City of Boston s Chief Economic Development Officer and Boston Redevelopment Authority. Before joining Mayor Thomas M. Menino s administration, she served as the communications director for the Massachusetts Industrial Finance Agency, now known as MassDevelopment. She received her Bachelor of Science Degree in Communications and Public Relations from Boston University. YMCA OF GREATER BOSTON BACKGROUNDER 11
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