Friends of Mentor A Promise Fundraising Manager (Volunteer)

Mentor A Promise is a New York City–based nonprofit serving children and youth (ages 5–18) experiencing housing instability, grounded in the belief that every child is a Promise—full of potential, dignity, and possibility. We deliver consistent, high-quality programming across mentorship, literacy, social-emotional learning, and creative expression in shelters, schools, and community spaces, creating structured environments where students can grow, be seen, and build lasting skills. Through signature experiences like The Imagination Studio, The Kitchen Table, The Sound Lab, and The Story Space, we nurture academic development, emotional well-being, and creative voice, all within a trauma-informed, culturally responsive, and accessibility-centered framework. Our work prioritizes dignity-protective storytelling, consent-driven engagement, and deep community partnership, ensuring that how we serve is as intentional as whom we serve. We are not only addressing immediate needs - we are building pathways to confidence, belonging, and long-term opportunity, so every child has the support and foundation to carry their promise forward.
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Friends of Mentor A Promise Fundraising Manager (Volunteer)
PromiseGiving | Friends of Mentor A Promise, Community Fundraising & Donor Engagement
Organization Mentor A Promise (MAP)
Division PromiseGiving
Initiative Friends of Mentor A Promise
Location Fully Remote — United States, with NYC-based collaboration and optional in-person fundraising activities as appropriate
Type Volunteer Management Role
Commitment Approximately 5–10 hours per week
Minimum Commitment 6 months
Reports To PromiseGiving Leadership
Works Closely With Individual Giving, Donor Engagement, Events, PromiseBridge, PromiseVoice, PromiseBrands, PromisePrograms, PromiseFinance, PromiseMeasure, and organizational leadership
About Mentor A Promise
Mentor A Promise (MAP) is a New York City–based nonprofit supporting children and youth ages 5–18 experiencing housing instability through mentorship, education, enrichment, creative expression, career development, advocacy, and community-centered opportunity.
MAP believes that people do not need extraordinary wealth to make an extraordinary contribution.
Friends of Mentor A Promise creates an accessible way for individuals, families, professionals, community members, alumni, volunteers, and supporters to become part of sustaining MAP's mission.
About Friends Of Mentor A Promise
Friends of Mentor A Promise is MAP's community of supporters who believe in the mission and want to help strengthen what is possible for young people.
The initiative is designed to transform interest in MAP into meaningful, sustained engagement.
Friends may support MAP through individual giving, peer-to-peer fundraising, recurring contributions, fundraising campaigns, community events, introductions, volunteer engagement, workplace giving, awareness-building, and other approved forms of support.
Friends of Mentor A Promise should be more than a donor list.
It should become a community around the promise.
Role Overview
MAP is seeking a Friends of Mentor A Promise Fundraising Manager to build, coordinate, and grow the fundraising activities associated with the Friends of Mentor A Promise initiative.
This role will help create an accessible community-fundraising program that allows people at different giving levels to participate meaningfully in MAP's mission.
The Manager will develop fundraising campaigns, cultivate supporters, coordinate peer-to-peer fundraising, support recurring giving, organize community fundraising opportunities, strengthen donor engagement, and help build systems that turn first-time supporters into long-term Friends of MAP.
The central question is
How do we give more people a meaningful way to become part of the promise?
Friends of MAP Fundraising Strategy
Develop and execute a practical fundraising strategy for Friends of Mentor A Promise.
The strategy may include
Individual giving
Monthly giving
Peer-to-peer fundraising
Birthday and celebration fundraisers
Giving campaigns
Community fundraising
Workplace giving
Employee fundraising
Small fundraising events
Digital campaigns
Giving challenges
Matching-gift opportunities
Ambassador-led fundraising
Seasonal campaigns
Friend-to-friend introductions
The goal is not simply to ask more people for money.
It is to create meaningful pathways for people who care about MAP to participate in sustaining the mission.
Build the Friends Community
Help develop Friends of Mentor A Promise into a recognizable community of supporters.
Create pathways such as
Discover MAP → Become Interested → Join Friends → Participate → Give → Engage → Stay Connected → Deepen Support
Work to ensure supporters understand
MAP's mission
Who MAP serves
What programs MAP provides
Why community support matters
How contributions are used
Ways to become involved
What their support helps make possible
Fundraising should strengthen relationships rather than reduce people to transactions.
Individual Giving
Support the growth of individual donations through thoughtful outreach and engagement.
Help develop
Giving appeals
Donor communications
Campaign messages
Giving opportunities
Follow-up strategies
Donor recognition
Renewal outreach
Reactivation efforts
Recurring-giving opportunities
Supporters should understand why their contribution matters without MAP exaggerating what a specific donation can accomplish.
Trust matters more than the perfect fundraising sentence.
Recurring Giving
Help establish and grow recurring support within Friends of Mentor A Promise.
Develop strategies for encouraging supporters who are able and interested to make consistent contributions.
Support
Monthly giving
Recurring donor communications
Retention
Appreciation
Renewal
Upgrade opportunities
Re-engagement
A recurring donor should not hear from MAP only when another donation is needed.
Peer-to-Peer Fundraising
Build opportunities for Friends to fundraise on behalf of MAP through approved campaigns.
Examples may include
Birthdays
Milestones
Community challenges
School or university campaigns
Workplace campaigns
Athletic events
Creative fundraisers
Social campaigns
Giving days
Personal fundraising pages
Develop resources that make participation easy, including campaign guidance, sample messaging, FAQs, fundraising expectations, and approved MAP materials.
Peer-to-peer fundraising should expand MAP's community while protecting the integrity of the organization and its mission.
Fundraising Campaigns
Help plan and execute Friends-focused fundraising campaigns.
Use a clear campaign framework
Goal → Audience → Case for Support → Fundraising Offer → Message → Channels → Launch → Engagement → Follow-Up → Results → Learning
Every campaign should have a clear purpose.
The question should not begin with
What should we post?
It should begin with
What are we trying to accomplish, who might care, and why should they participate?
Community Fundraising
Develop opportunities for community members to organize or participate in approved fundraising activities.
Help establish appropriate guidance for supporter-led activities so Friends understand what they may organize independently and what requires MAP approval.
Community fundraising should make participation easier without creating unnecessary organizational, financial, legal, or reputational risk.
Fundraising Events
Support appropriately scaled Friends of MAP fundraising events, whether virtual or in person.
Activities may include
Community gatherings
Small benefit events
Creative showcases
Fundraising challenges
Networking events
Giving celebrations
Volunteer-led fundraisers
Partner-supported events
Events should have defined objectives and should be evaluated against the resources required to produce them.
A successful event is not simply a full room.
It should accomplish something meaningful.
Donor Stewardship
Help create a supporter experience that continues after a contribution is received.
Support
Timely acknowledgment
Thank-you communications
Impact updates
Campaign follow-up
Recognition
Engagement opportunities
Renewal
Relationship development
Use a stewardship pathway
Gift → Acknowledgment → Appreciation → Impact Communication → Continued Engagement → Renewal → Deeper Relationship
Gratitude should never feel automated simply because the process is organized.
Fundraising Storytelling
Partner with PromiseVoice, PromiseBrands, PromiseMeasure, and appropriate program teams to communicate why support matters.
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