Building Black Youth Foundation(B.B.Y.F.) Fundraising Project

Team size: 5-10 students, or flexible

Project time length: TBD

Project weekly schedule: TBD- Students are required to attend One 40 min mandatory weekly meeting. Meeting hours are between 3:30pm-6:30pm EST/1:30pm-4:30pm MT/12:30pm-3:30pm PDT. Dates TBD

Project daily schedule: Our hours of operation are Monday to Friday 1:00pm-8:00pm EST/12:00pm-6:00pm MT/10:00am-5:00pm PDT. Students must be ready, willing and able to participate in project work, communications and meetings during those hours. Our scheduling is flexible and allows for students to complete their work on weekends as well if need be.

Project Roles: Students must be able to fill 1 or more roles

1. Fundraising/Donation Procurement Coordinator
2. Fundraising Campaign Management/Development
3. Grant Writer/Proposal Writer

Scope: We are looking for a group of students to help implement fundraising tasks, donation procurement, Grant Writing and fundraising campaign development & management, within the following initiatives:

• Fundraising implementation tasks to raise money.
• Securing donations from individuals, organizations/businesses, sponsors, investors, etc.
• Grant writing & procurement. Completing applications for funding opportunities.
• Fundraising campaign management and development to increase outreach
• Fundraising marketing strategies and implementation including drafting elevator pitches, creating pitch presentations & presenting them.
• Fundraising/donation communication tasks including outreach to individuals, organizations/businesses to secure donations.
• Researching sponsor, funding and partnership opportunities.
• Drafting guidelines for resolving inquiries developing strategies to improve outreach capabilities.
• Lead generation

SKILLS: communication, problem-solving, teamwork, fundraising, grant writing, marketing, lead generation, research

Project Goals/Deliverables:

• Securing donations from individuals, organizations/businesses, sponsors & or investors
• Writing Grants & completing funding applications
• Fundraising campaign development & management
• Any other deliverables will be decided and agreed upon with students.

Team Organization

Team of up to 5, or as many students as possible, with each person assigned to agreed upon deliverables based on skills and experience. The team will have a Project Manager who will interact with the BBYF’s Project Manager.

Timeframe

Target start date: TBD- This is an ongoing project

End Date: TBD- This is an ongoing project

Communication

We will plan to communicate with our virtual interns using these communication tools: Riipen messaging, ZOOM, Email, Slack, phone/text, etc..

Student's primary contact: Tasha Flemmings

Job title: Senior Project Manager/CEO

Secondary contact: TBD shortly,

Job Title: Project Manager

Mentorship and Supervision

Students will be supervised during their internship through Zoom and other online work sharing platforms, specifically during working hours. Students will be guided and mentored by our senior project manager along with our student Project Manager as well. They will have access to our Senior project manager Tasha, any time needed during business hours by phone/email and after business hours through email. Students will also have the option of connecting with their student project manager for support during the duration of the internship.

Incentives

Upon completion of the project, students will also receive the following.

Mini Professional Portfolio including:

• Job recommendation letter,
• Skills addendum letter,
• Volunteer appreciation certificate,
• BBYF Special Monument certificate