Fundraising Intern

• Identify and research prospective investors including individuals foundations and corporations.
• Assist in developing targeted outreach materials such as proposals investor letters and followup communications.

• Support planning and logistics for fundraising events including investor receptions webinars and largescale campaigns.
• Provide onsite event assistance such as setup registration and postevent wrapup.

• Maintain accurate investor and prospect records in our Salesforce CRM system.
• Track and document investments ensuring proper acknowledgment and reporting.

• Collaborate on investor communications including newsletters and fundraising appeals.
• Highlight the impact of Commit Partnerships work through compelling storytelling initiatives.

• Assist in preparing reports presentations and meeting materials for the Fundraising team.
• Organize and manage fundraising resources and files.

• Have a passion for public education and a commitment to excellence for all students.
• Demonstrate strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Exhibit strong critical thinking and problemsolving skills.
• Possess excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Adapt well to change and see change as an opportunity to grow.
• Be an ambitious selfstarter who thrives in a fastpaced entrepreneurial environment and is eager to learn and contribute.

• Be currently pursuing or recently graduated with a degree in Nonprofit Management Communications Marketing Business Education or a related field.
• Be proficient in Microsoft Office Suite (Word Excel PowerPoint) and open to learning donor management tools (e.g. Salesforce or similar CRM platforms).

• Proficient in Salesforce and Teamwork preferred
• Experience with direct fundraising preferred

About The Commit Partnership:

Our Mission

We believe that through our actions Dallas County which educates 10 of Texas and 1 of the nation can be an inclusive and prosperous region where economic opportunity is shared equitably. Thats why our true north goal is that by 2040 at least half of all 2534yearold residents of Dallas County irrespective of race will be provided the opportunity to earn a living wage.

To increase living wage attainment we must equitably increase educational success aligned with highdemand jobs maximizing the cumulative impact from early education all the way to college career and/or military readiness and accessing and completing a strong postsecondary education. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around this shared future roadmap analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies practices and funding that grow our communitys capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Our Story

Founded in 2012 this partnership is the nations largest educational collective impact organization composed of backbone staff and over 200 partners across Dallas County and the state of Texas working collaboratively to solve systemic education challenges. Our staff aligns community stakeholders around a shared future roadmap analyzing data to lift up strategic initiatives that improve policies practices and funding that grow our communitys capacity to serve every student more effectively.

Together we work to advocate for excellent and equitable public education that ensures all students regardless of race place or socioeconomic status have the power to determine their future and earn a living wage. We do this work through several ventures including Early Matters Dallas North Texas Tutoring Corps Dallas County Promise Texas College Bridge Dallas Thrives Commits Policy Team the Texas Impact Network and several coalitions.

True North Traits

Our True North Traits creates a missiondriven environment and champions us to do our best work each day.

Systemic Impact: You understand the barriers and lived experiences that our students face and are skilled at delivering systemic solutions at scale that address these needs. You achieve significant sustainable results that increase equitable outcomes through your work (including the reallocation or improvement in public funding) and you recognize the difference between activity and impact.

Judgment: You exhibit a relentless students first focus by thinking strategically about what data must be collected analyzed visualized and activated (and what steps must be taken in what order) to cause resources to be reallocated and actions to be taken to systemically overcome the root causes hindering achievement of the Partnerships mission.

Communication: By listening to understand before seeking to be understood youre able to build trust and facilitate collaboration across lines of difference recognizing that both are essential to our success. You are also able to find common ground with diverse stakeholders and can tailor the organizations message to different audiences as needed to influence meaningful change.

Innovation: You can create or meaningfully contribute to the design and of a systemic and transformational strategic plan to solve complex problems often at scale that improves organizational effectiveness and/or closes equity gaps for our students and families.

Equity and Inclusion: You intentionally create spaces where relevant stakeholders have a seat or voice at the table ensuring that each person at the tables thoughts and perspectives are shared valued by all others at the table and reflected in our work. Youre excited to help build and/or contribute to teams where everyone feels welcomed respected valued and highly supported.

Joy: You recognize that people are central to our work striking a balance between people and process and you inspire others with your optimism and thirst for substantive change in service to the mission.

Integrity: You admit mistakes openly share learnings widely and elevate bad news quickly also capable of making difficult decisions in all situations to ensure the success of the organization.

The Commit Partnership is an Equal Opportunity Employer that seeks to hire individuals with backgrounds similar to that of the stakeholders they serve. As an organization that embraces equity and inclusion all employment decisions are based on business needs job requirements and individual qualifications without regard to race color religion or belief national social or ethnic origin gender age sexual orientation gender identity and/or expression marital civil union or domestic partnership status or any other status protected by federal state or local laws.

Commit does not sponsor visas of any kind.