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Development and Volunteer Coordinator VISTA

First Grace Community Alliance

Posted 01/21/22

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3401 CANAL ST, NEW ORLEANS, LA, 70119

Inactive
Full-Time
Entry level
Nonprofit / Museums
In Person

Job Description

First Grace Community Alliance (FGCA) houses 2 main programs: Hagar's House (our home for women and children) and Project Ishmael (our pro bono children's immigration legal program). You will get to spend your weeks half at Hagar's House and half in our office at Project Ishmael.

This is a 1 year AmeriCorps VISTA position (sponsored through Tulane), with possible renewal. Housing, a living stipend, continuing education and some healthcare are provided.

Roles include:

- Development, fundraising and grant research for both programs

- Some communications, including social media and press releases for events

- Donor management and thanking for both programs

- Volunteer coordination and support for both Hagar's House and Project Ishmael

- Language Access coordination, coordinating bilingual volunteers for both programs

- Most roles will be located onsite at Hagar's House


How to apply

To start the application process, please send your resume with a short email about why you are interested in the position to ProjectIshmaelNOLA AT gmail.com AND to eriemer AT tulane.edu. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

Skills

  • Grant Writing
  • Volunteer Coordinating
  • Social Media
  • Fundraising
  • Administrative Office Support

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About First Grace Community Alliance

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First Grace Community Alliance's mission is to work with and for people in need, especially women and children, by meeting food, housing, and other emergency needs, while simultaneously challenging systemic poverty in the greater New Orleans Area. Our two main programs are Hagar's House and Project Ishmael.

Project Ishmael is a pro bono immigration legal program for children that seeks to:

  • Meet some of the immigration legal needs of children in New Orleans through direct representation and education,
  • Coordinate with volunteer attorneys to help meet the diverse legal needs of women and children who currently live at Hagar's House, and
  • Challenge systemic injustices that allow children and their families to be separated, harassed, deported or incarcerated based on skin color or immigration status.

Hagar’s House is a sanctuary for women and children in New Orleans that provides an open and empowering residential community, resource coordination and a safe space to transition into sustainable housing.We offer:

  • A beautiful, clean, safe place to rest and call home
  • An open and empowering space that welcomes women, children and those who identify as transgender
  • An intentional community that is actively engaged in undoing the root causes of poverty
  • Holistic programming focused on physical health, emotional/spiritual health and social justice
  • A Capacity Building partnership where residents meet weekly with staff to set their own long and short-term goals and to determine their own path for meeting those goals
  • A savings program in which working residents save 70% of their income, ideally $3,000 at the time of moving out
    Healthy food and space to plant in a community garden