Talent Market

Talent Market is a nonprofit whose mission is to promote liberty by providing talent for critical roles within the free-market nonprofit sector

Development Director – American Institute for Economic Research – Virtual Office

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The American Institute for Economic Research was founded in 1933 as America’s first independent research institution dedicated to sound money, free-market economics, prosperity, and peace. The intellectual and donor legacy at AIER is immense. Its reputational capital is impeccable. It is now in an exciting growth phase, and is poised to be even bigger, with high reach in media and a fast-growing staff in our beautiful Great Barrington, Massachusetts, home. The Development Director can work from a virtual office anywhere in the country or may work from our Great Barrington headquarters. Great Barrington rests in the heart of the Northeastern corridor, just over 2 hours from both New York City and Boston, just over an hour to Hartford, and under an hour to Albany.

AIER is seeking an experienced fundraising professional to help take the organization to its next level of growth. AIER’s long history, excellent reputation and large database of donor prospects offer an extraordinary opportunity for donor cultivation. The ideal candidate for this role will be a solid manager who is self-motivated, organized, and professional.

Currently AIER has no on-staff development director or team. We have outsourced our fundraising letters that have been very successful even though we’ve only embarked on this effort in 2018. There is a limited staff to assist the new development director, but the goal is to build an in-house development team. This really is a new beginning with nothing but upside.

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Development Manager – Mississippi Center for Public Policy – Jackson, MS

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The Mississippi Center for Public Policy (MCPP) has a goal to build a Mississippi where individual liberty, opportunity, and responsibility reign because government is limited.

After 25 years of advancing the cause of liberty, MCPP is entering into a new era of greater leadership in the lives of all Mississippians across the Magnolia State. We are leveraging our past policy accomplishments and accelerating our advocacy so we can take on the enemies of liberty – in whatever form they take. Whenever and wherever entrepreneurs, parents, families and citizens are prevented from reaching for the lives they have imagined, we’ll be on the job aggressively defending those Mississippians – including taking action to protect constitutional rights through the Mississippi Justice Institute.

We are building a team of professional patriots – a talented and hard-working group of folks who want to make a difference for liberty and be part of a fast-moving organization dedicated to getting things done in Mississippi and beyond. If you’ve got skills, initiative and spunk and you believe in free market solutions, we should talk.

About the Opening

MCPP is currently searching for a Development Manager to help assist the organization’s fundraising efforts. This is an excellent position for a junior level person to really launch their career in development.

The Development Manager will work closely with the CEO on the leveraging of technology, database management, prospect research, event coordination, scheduling, grant writing, donor communications and office management. As the CEO’s background includes fundraising, this will be an amazing opportunity for the Development Manager to learn from and be mentored by an expert in the field.

The Manager will also work with the VP for Policy, the Communications Director, and the Executive Director of the Mississippi Justice Institute to develop winning strategies for articulating MCPP’s value to donors.

The Manager is based in Jackson, the capitol city, where MCPP is headquartered. 

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Director of Development – Georgia Center for Opportunity – Atlanta, GA

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Georgia Center for Opportunity (GCO) is an independent, non-partisan think tank dedicated to increasing opportunity and improving the quality of life for all Georgians.  Our mission is to make Georgia the national leader in creating opportunities for a quality education, stable employment, and healthy family life.  Our vision is for Georgia’s communities to be the most vibrant in the country. 

To achieve our mission, we research ways to help remove barriers to opportunity in each of these pathways, promote our solutions to policymakers and the public, and help effective and innovative social enterprises deliver results in their communities. Our ultimate goal is to see every Georgian who is willing to seize the opportunities presented to them living a life that can be characterized as truly flourishing.

With offices in Peachtree Corners of metro Atlanta and Columbus, GA, GCO is a fast-paced, entrepreneurial, and highly collaborative environment. We have an opening for a Director of Development who is a self-starter, enjoys working with a team, loves new challenges and, above all else, desires to enrich the lives of other people.

The Director of Development is a full-time position and will be based in GCO’s Atlanta office. The Director of Development will manage a Development Associate and Director of Institutional Giving.

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Development Research Manager – Pacific Legal Foundation – Arlington, VA

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Pacific Legal Foundation—the nation’s first and most successful public interest law firm dedicated to vindicating individual liberty—seeks an energetic and innovative development researcher to organize and manage a prospective donor pipeline to grow PLF’s donor base and financial resources. 

About the Role

The Development Research Manager is responsible for developing and implementing a process to identify prospective supporters, in order to generate increased support for PLF. The Development Research Manager reports to the Director of Annual Giving and Stewardship. 

The primary job duties are as follows:

  • Use research tools to identify prospective individuals and foundations who have the affinity and capacity to support Pacific Legal Foundation
  • Manage the research pipeline to facilitate acquisitions, renewals, and upgrades among current and prospective donors 
  • Based on research, determine the appropriate stewardship track for new donors 
  • Work with the Director of Annual Giving and Stewardship and Director of Donor Relations to develop appropriate donor strategies and prioritization based on research
  • Manage the dissemination of research to appropriate development officers, including creating a process for assigning, reviewing, and disqualifying potential prospects   
  • Prepare individual research and background profiles for development officers and leadership as requested
  • Oversee the strategic use of analytics data to implement effective segmentation of qualified prospects for the Annual Giving and Major Giving teams 
  • Continually review and improve research processes based on results and feedback from Development colleagues
  • Maintain accurate and timely data information in Raiser’s Edge 

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Director of Development – Civitas Institute – Raleigh or Virtual Office in NC

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The Civitas Institute seeks a new Director of Development to help guide the organization into its next phase of growth.  The ideal candidate will have a minimum of 3-5 years of experience in fundraising or related field. 

About the Civitas Institute:

The mission of the Civitas Institute is to fight to remove barriers to freedom so that all North Carolinians enjoy a better life. Located in Raleigh, Civitas serves as “North Carolina’s Conservative Voice,” telling citizens the truth about state government the mainstream media won’t discuss and holding legislators accountable when they violate limited-government principles.

Founded in 2005, Civitas has experienced tremendous growth, and has been instrumental in victories such as the historic 2013 tax reforms, the creation and expansion of school choice programs, and the placing on the ballot this fall of a constitutional amendment requiring photo ID for those voting in person.

The position can be based in our Raleigh offices or may work virtually from another location in North Carolina.

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Senior Director of Development – State Policy Network – Virtual Office

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State Policy Network is seeking a Senior Director of Development to join our team. This position is ideal for a pro-liberty, entrepreneurial candidate with an interest in growing long term, sustainable relationships with major donors, while also managing a team of frontline fundraisers.

The Senior Director of Development will report directly to our Vice President of Development and will be responsible for the results of the major gifts and leadership giving programs. [Read more…]

About Us

Claire Kittle Dixon

Claire Kittle Dixon
Executive Director
Claire has more than a decade of experience in the talent development field. She…
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Lauren Skiver

Lauren Skiver
Talent Manager
Lauren comes to us from our parent nonprofit, DonorsTrust, where she was the Outreach…
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Katy Ranville
Network Engagement Manager
Katy began her career at the Institute for Humane Studies and later joined the Cato Institute…
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Wait, You’re a Nonprofit?

Talent Market is a nonprofit. We’ll wait here while that sinks in. We know it’s a crazy concept, but it’s been working like a charm since 2009.

Talent Market’s mission is to promote liberty by providing talent for critical roles within the free-market nonprofit sector.

We provide free consulting and recruiting services to free-market think tanks, policy organizations, research centers, and capacity building institutions dedicated to advancing the principles of limited government and free enterprise. (We do not work in politics, nor do we work with organizations that address social issues.) Talent Market believes that the road to prosperity is paved with freedom and that the success of our movement hinges on the talent that will take us there.

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