About the role
The ACLU seeks a Graduate or Undergraduate Intern within the Prospect Development team of the Nationwide Development Resources (NDR) unit of the ACLU's National Development office in New York, NY. This Position can be hybrid or remote
The Team:
The ACLU's Prospect Development team, part of Nationwide Development Resources (NDR), focuses on a number of prospect development efforts to support major gifts fundraising, including prospect identification, prospect research, and portfolio management.
NDR's greater role is to empower ACLU nationwide fundraising staff to leverage internal and external development expertise, resources, systems and tools to work more effectively and efficiently.
What You'll Do:
The intern will be part of the Development department, learning about fundraising operations at a large civil rights nonprofit organization. The intern will report to the Associate Director, Prospect Development, focusing on prospect identification, prospect research, business intelligence, and portfolio management. The intern will learn about prospect development in addition to the range of other work within NDR. They will also be exposed to the work of other teams within the ACLU's Development Department. By involving the intern in an array of work within our unit, the internship expands the capacity of our team while contributing to a pipeline of potential nonprofit professionals.
Your Day to Day
Conduct prospect research to deepen our knowledge of donors' capacity and inclination to make a major gift to the ACLU.
Learn about enterprise-wide fundraising tools, including data analytics and resources to support prospect segmentation and analysis. Assist in vendor screening data uploads.
Assist in prospect identification through an ongoing calendar of internal and external prospecting reviews including upgrade reports and assessments of vendor screening data.
Make recommendations for assigning prospects to national and affiliate portfolios and communicate those recommendations to nationwide fundraisers.
Other duties as assigned, potentially including Salesforce CRM data entry, business intelligence reporting projects, writing event bios, and assisting with other NDR department projects.
What You'll Bring:
Interest in a career in nonprofit development, especially in prospect development or major gifts fundraising.
Good writing skills and verbal communication skills.
Experience with Microsoft Office.
About the company
For over 100 years, the ACLU has worked to defend and preserve the individual rights and liberties guaranteed by the Constitution and laws of the United States. Whether it's ending mass incarceration, achieving full equality for the LGBTQ+ community, establishing new privacy protections for our digital age, or preserving the right to vote or the right to have an abortion, the ACLU takes up the toughest civil liberties cases and issues to defend all people.
