Vice President of Philanthropy, Southern California

Vice President of Philanthropy, Southern California

Dignity Moves is an innovative non-profit organization focused on reimagining scalable solutions to street homelessness. Headquartered in the San Francisco Bay Area, Dignity Moves was founded in 2021 by a group of civic leaders interested in creating practical solutions to urgently end street homelessness. In partnership with cities, supportive services agencies and private stakeholders, Dignity Moves builds Interim Supportive Housing (ISH) communities fast and cost-effectively.

Utilizing unused land, relocatable prefabricated units and emergency building provisions, we empower municipalities to address the homelessness epidemic with appropriate urgency.

In addition to building ISH communities, Dignity Moves is committed to driving systems change in the housing sector through thought leadership, policy support, and advocacy efforts focused on practical, timely solutions to combating the crisis on our streets. We work with state and local elected leaders to shift homelessness policy to urgently prioritize ending street homelessness while municipalities build the needed supply of permanent housing.

Perhaps most importantly, we aim to re-instill optimism that unsheltered homelessness can in fact be solved through a combination of innovative solutions, leveraging public-private partnerships, and an all-hands‑on‑deck approach. We acknowledge that unsheltered homelessness is only one component of a much larger and more complex issue, but it is the most visible, inhumane, and frankly, most solvable.

Our passionate team moves with a high sense of urgency and commitment to our mission. In just 4 years Dignity Moves has successfully completed 10 “tiny home” developments with nearly 800 beds that can serve over 11,500 individuals over the next 10 years. Based on the overwhelmingly positive success of our first communities, demand for our model has surged:
Dignity Moves currently has 10 additional projects currently in development across California that will more than double our capacity and is expanding nationally. Demand for our work far outpaces our current ability to scale, creating an urgent need for capacity‑building support.

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The Vice President of Philanthropy, Southern California is a new position that reports to the Chief Strategy and Growth Officer and works closely with other members of the Dignity Moves team. The successful candidate will be a seasoned development professional responsible for identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and securing major individual gifts primarily in Southern California (or elsewhere as needed). Our fundraising needs are primarily to support expanding Dignity Moves’ organizational capacity, though also include project‑based philanthropy to augment other funding sources allocated to project capital costs.

• Leadership
• Development Communications
• Events
• Other duties as assigned
• Prospect research
• Prospect tracking
• Meet fundraising targets and other key metrics.
• Prospect portfolio strategy and annual cadence of fundraising activities.
• Expanded major gift prospect pipeline.
• Prospect stewardship and engagement plans.
• Fundraising/stewardship material, collateral and briefings, and highly personalized proposals.
• Flawlessly executed cultivation and stewardship events.
• Curated donor stewardship strategies and engagement plans.
• Raise $2M dollars within a 24 month time‑frame.

• 7-10 years of professional fundraising experience, with expertise in major gift cultivation and solicitation in the Los Angeles area, San Diego and Southern California generally.
• Deep understanding of fundraising programs and major giving strategies.
• Track record of building relationships with prospective and existing major gift level donors, ideally closing gifts of at least $100,000.
• Demonstrated experience building and growing a successful major gift program in a fast‑paced, entrepreneurial start‑up nonprofit environment.
• Possesses a network in Southern California and an entrepreneurial spirit, capable of leveraging their own existing relationships.
• Exper…