Month: July 2026

Executive Director | Youth Art & Self-empowerment Project

About YASP

Youth Art & Self-Empowerment Project (YASP) is a Philadelphia-based organization rooted in abolition, healing justice, and the power of young people to transform the systems that harm them. We work alongside youth who have been directly impacted by the carceral system, providing restorative justice diversion programming, creative arts programming, a youth-led hub for participatory defense, and other legal education. We believe that the people most harmed by unjust systems are the ones best positioned to dismantle them.

YASP is fiscally sponsored and operates across several interconnected programs: Healing Futures, the Youth Participatory Defense Hub, and Creative Arts workshops. This is a moment of growth and deepening for the organization, and we are looking for a leader who can hold both the day-to-day and the long horizon.

This Moment at YASP

This is not a standard Executive Director role. YASP is at an inflection point, building organizational infrastructure while holding deep commitments to youth leadership, abolitionist values, and tight-knit staff community. The next ED will need to be someone who understands that this work is more urgent than ever. In a moment when organizations are losing funding, facing political targeting, and navigating the realities of rising fascism, YASP needs a leader with deep conviction, someone whose commitment doesn’t waver when conditions get hard. The next phase of YASP’s work is about stability, deepening, and continuity, connecting what we’ve built to where we’re going, and making sure we’re here for the next 20 years.

We’re looking for someone who:

  • Loves young people, full stop. Someone who is genuinely committed to their liberation, growth, and development, and brings that love into every decision they make as a leader.
  • Leads from within, not from above. Someone who is present, participatory, and builds power alongside staff and youth rather than directing from a distance.
  • Is culturally rooted and community-connected. YASP is deeply embedded in Philadelphia’s culture and communities. We’re looking for someone who understands what it means to organize through culture, and who can build real relationships grounded in warmth, authenticity, and shared values.
  • Can hold the long view. Someone who thinks in decades, not just program cycles, and who sees organizational development as movement infrastructure, not administrative maintenance.
  • Embodies YASP’s values in how they show up. Not just someone who can articulate abolitionist principles, but someone who lives them in their relationships, their leadership style, and their presence in this work.

Core Responsibilities

The estimates below reflect our honest assessment of where this role lives and where we need the ED to be the most present.

Organizational Vision, Mission & Culture (~25% of time)

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Executive Director: Tribe 12

Tribe 12 connects people in their 20s and 30s to Jewish life and community in Philadelphia today so they will choose to stay connected tomorrow.
For more than fifteen years, Tribe 12 has redefined what Jewish engagement can look like by thinking expansively about how to craft community and inspire connection. Through social events, affinity groups, mentorship, learning cohorts, leadership opportunities, matchmaking, and more, we help young Jewish adults build authentic relationships, meaningful community, and lasting connections to Jewish life.

Over the past six years, Tribe 12 has nearly doubled its budget and expanded its impact, becoming one of Philadelphia’s leading Jewish engagement organizations.

We believe great organizations are built by great teams. Our next Executive Director will join a dedicated and mission-driven staff, an engaged Board, and a community excited about the future.

The Opportunity

This is an opportunity to lead an innovative and dynamic organization into its next chapter.

Working closely with the Board and staff, the Executive Director will provide strategic leadership while strengthening the organization’s culture, operations, partnerships, and long-term sustainability. The next Executive Director will help Tribe 12 continue asking important questions about where it can have the greatest impact and how it can best serve Jewish adults in their 20s and 30s.
We’re looking for a leader who can balance vision with execution, someone who enjoys building healthy teams, developing people, creating organizational clarity, and earning the trust of staff, board members, funders, and community partners.
This role is well-suited for individuals with executive director experience and a desire to have an impact in Philadelphia’s Jewish community or candidates ready to step into their first executive director position after serving in senior leadership in a nonprofit or mission-driven organization.

What You’ll Do

The Executive Director provides overall leadership for Tribe 12 by:
● Leading implementation of the organization’s strategic plan.
● Supervising and developing a team of eight full-time and part-time employees, including three direct reports.
● Building a strong organizational culture rooted in trust, accountability, collaboration, and continuous learning.
● Partnering closely with the Board of Directors to strengthen governance and advance strategic priorities.
● Overseeing organizational finances, budgeting, and long-term sustainability in partnership with the Treasurer and Finance Committee.
● Serving as a public ambassador for Tribe 12 throughout Greater Philadelphia and beyond.
● Partnering with the Senior Director for Strategy and Development to cultivate major donors and advance fundraising efforts.
● Ensuring the success of fundraising events including the annual Hanukkah Fundraiser and the Jewish Philly Under 40 Awards.
● Building strong relationships with funders, community organizations, volunteers, and stakeholders.
● Assessing programs, operations, and organizational systems to ensure that they remain aligned with Tribe 12’s mission and values.
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Director of Advocacy and Policy | American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania

The Position

The American Civil Liberties Union of Pennsylvania (ACLU-PA) seeks a mission-driven, visionary policy and advocacy professional and operations manager to serve as the next Director of Advocacy and Policy (Director). The Director will join the ACLU-PA at a time of increasing threats to liberty and civil rights and will build upon a century of work and success to advance the organization’s mission to drive progress toward a more genuine multiracial, multicultural, and just democracy.

The incoming Director will join a team of experts that works diligently to defend the civil liberties of all Pennsylvanians. The breadth of expertise at the ACLU-PA allows the organization to integrate litigation, legislative and policy advocacy, organizing, and communications. The ACLU-PA’s staff and volunteers work both independently and in coalition with those most affected by the issues they address, including voting rights, First Amendment rights, privacy and security, racial justice, reproductive freedom, student and youth rights, immigrants’ rights, criminal legal reform, and Transgender, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Queer, Intersex, and Asexual+ Equality. The work for the ACLU-PA has never been more important, and over the past year, ACLU-PA membership has grown, and fundraising has leaped.

The Director will join at a time of momentum for the organization and set a strategy and vision that support the ACLU-PA’s policy and advocacy team in enhancing the scale, coordination, and impact of advocacy and policy efforts across the organization. By fostering productive and trusted relationships throughout the ACLU-PA and partnering with peers on the senior leadership team, the Director will advance a more collaborative, transparent, and integrated organizational culture to empower, support, and develop a talented, mission-oriented staff. This leader will lead by example to nurture, strengthen, and expand partnerships across the Commonwealth to increase visibility of the ACLU-PA’s important work and its impact.

Compensation for this position will be $175,000 annually. Benefits include health, dental, disability, life insurance, retirement plan, paid vacation, holidays, sabbatical, and sick leave.

APPLICATIONS, INQUIRIES, AND NOMINATIONS

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Campaign Director | Penn Policy Center

About Pennsylvania Policy Center

Pennsylvania Policy Center (PPC) is a statewide, nonpartisan 501(c)(3) research, policy, and public education organization working to build a Pennsylvania where everyone has the opportunity not just to get by, but to get ahead. We advance evidence-based solutions that strengthen economic opportunity, promote tax fairness, protect democracy, expand access to quality public services, and create pathways to shared prosperity for all Pennsylvanians. We believe lasting change requires more than good policy. It requires informed communities, strong coalitions, effective communications, meaningful civic engagement, and strategic advocacy rooted in research and lived experience.

Our work combines policy analysis, public education, coalition building, communications, and advocacy to advance policies that improve the lives of Pennsylvanians across race, geography, income, and background.

Our Vision and Core Principles

At Pennsylvania Policy Center, we are building an organization that values both results and relationships.

We believe strong organizations are built on trust, accountability, transparency, continuous learning, and a shared commitment to excellence. We strive to create a workplace where people can do meaningful work, grow professionally, and contribute to building long-term institutional capacity.

What We Expect from Every Team Member

Every member of the PPC team is expected to:

  • Demonstrate a commitment to our mission, vision, and values.
  • Take ownership of their work and follow through on commitments.
  • Build trust through reliability, accountability, and transparency.
  • Communicate openly, respectfully, and constructively.
  • Approach challenges with curiosity, creativity, and a solutions-oriented mindset.
  • Balance urgency with sustainability and high standards with grace.
  • Work collaboratively across teams, partners, and stakeholders.
  • Contribute to building strong organizational systems and processes.
  • Seek opportunities for continuous learning and improvement.
  • Help strengthen PPC as a growing institution, not simply complete assigned tasks.
  • Foster a culture of shared responsibility, mutual respect, and collective success.

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Organizing Director | Lift Every Voice Philly

About Lift Every Voice Philly

Lift Every Voice Philly (LEV) is Philadelphia’s only base-building organization solely focused on systems change in the School District of Philadelphia. We are a Black parent-led, multiracial organization seeking our next Organizing Director.

After four years of organizing and winning campaigns that secured daily recess, citywide student wellness protections, and major progress on the school nurse vacancy crisis, we are ready for our next chapter.

The Organizing Director will lead four core areas of work: supervising and developing our organizing team, driving campaign strategy and execution, codifying and strengthening our member leadership development program, and building the external relationships and political positioning that expand LEV’s power. They will serve as a full member of the leadership team with broad authority to build our base and lead winning campaigns.

The work is grounded in LEV’s theory of change and the three strategies that have always driven our organization: growing parent leadership, unity, and voice.

The Opportunity

We’re looking for an experienced organizer with a proven track record of building a base, developing leaders, and winning campaigns. You’re equally comfortable setting strategy and executing the day-to-day work that makes campaigns successful. You know how to coach organizers, earn trust with members, and build relationships that expand an organization’s power. You thrive in fast-moving environments, hold yourself and others to a high standard, and believe that Black and Brown parents have the power to transform public education when they are organized, united, and equipped to lead.

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Director of Development: Face to Face

Face to Face is seeking an experienced and strategic Director of Development who is energized by cultivating relationships, engaging donors, and securing major gifts. This role will prioritize direct donor engagement, portfolio management, and revenue growth. The Director of Development will build and steward a robust pipeline of individuals.  They will supervise the Grants and Events managers and support their efforts in seeking and stewarding corporate and foundation donors.

This is an ideal role for a leader who loves being out of the office and with donors, guiding a team, and using data‑driven strategies to strengthen long‑term fundraising success.

Key Responsibilities

Major Gifts & Donor Engagement (Top Priority – 50–60%)

  • Manage a portfolio of existing major donors, develop prospects, ensuring regular cultivation, stewardship, and solicitation.
  • Conduct a minimum of 8–10 donor meetings per month (virtual or in-person).
  • Create individualized donor strategies and multi‑step cultivation plans.
  • Identify, qualify, and solicit new prospects capable of giving $10,000–$100,000+.
  • Prepare Executive Director for phone calls and meetings with major donors where the presence of ED is important.

Fundraising Strategy & Revenue Management (20–25%)

  • Develop and implement annual fundraising strategies to meet or exceed a $3.5M+ revenue goal.
  • Create multi‑year plans to grow major gifts and diversify funding.
  • Partner with the Executive Director and Board on donor strategy.
  • Analyze donor data and pipeline performance; ensure accurate Salesforce use and reporting.

Team Leadership & Cross‑Department Collaboration (20–25%)

  • Supervise and mentor the Grants Manager and Events Manager, ensuring excellence in grant writing, reporting, and event execution.
  • Provide Board and Development Committee leadership, training, and engagement strategies.

Required Qualifications

  • 7+ years of progressive fundraising experience, with a proven track record in:
    • securing five‑ and six‑figure gifts,
    • managing donor portfolios,
    • soliciting donations.
  • Demonstrated success in donor cultivation, stewardship, and closing gifts.
  • Experience leading or supporting teams (direct supervision preferred).
  • Strong strategic planning, project management, and interpersonal skills.
  • Strong understanding of fundraising best practices, ethics, CRM systems, and metrics.
  • Ability to thrive in a relationship‑driven environment and spend significant time in external-facing work.

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Director of Program and Impact: SpeakUp!

The Director of Program and Impact is a senior leadership role responsible for leading SpeakUp!’s program team, strengthening program quality and systems, deepening school and community partnerships, and advancing the organization’s impact strategy.

This leader will partner closely with the Executive Director to shape program strategy, align programs with organizational goals, and expand SpeakUp!’s impact within partner school communities. The Director will help evolve SpeakUp!’s model into a more integrated approach that increases student, parenting adult, and school touchpoints while complementing each school’s broader SEL and student support efforts.

The successful candidate will be a strong people leader, strategic thinker, relationship builder, and systems-oriented program leader who is energized by helping a mission-driven organization move into its next stage of growth.

 POSITION DETAILS

Employment Status: Full time
Schedule: Primarily weekday business hours, with approximately 35 evening events during the academic year at schools in the Greater Philadelphia area and New Jersey
Location: Hybrid, including onsite work in Devon, PA, school-based meetings, and remote work
Supervisor: Executive Director
Supervises: Program Team, currently six staff members
Salary: $95,000 – $110,000 commensurate with experience
Benefits: Health, Dental, Vision, and Life Insurance, Paid Time Off

ROLES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Leadership and Team Development

  • Foster a team culture of collaboration and shared ownership, ongoing learning, and a commitment to excellence in program delivery
  • Lead and manage the team with a coaching approach to supervision and feedback
  • Contribute as a member of senior leadership to organizational strategy, planning, change initiatives, Board reporting and engagement, and external representation as needed

Program Strategy, Growth, and Impact

  • Partner with the Executive Director to shape program strategy, set and achieve organizational goals, and deepen school engagement and impact
  • Oversee school outreach, retention, and growth, with a goal of reaching 40 active schools by 2029 and ensuring that 50% of new schools serve economically under-resourced communities
  • Guide pilot programs and new approaches that deepen the SpeakUp! experience within our school communities and expand touchpoints with students and adults
  • Expand and enhance community-based programming that equips parenting adults, grandparents, other adults, and alumni with skills, tools, and confidence to support and guide young people

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Program Director, Workforce Training and Services: Willliam Penn Foundation

Reports to: Chief Philanthropy Officer
Location: In-person, Philadelphia (with some remote flexibility)
Travel: Minimal, approximately 5-10%
FSLA Status: Regular, Full-Time, Exempt
Salary: $180,000-$200,000

The William Penn Foundation, founded by Otto and Phoebe Haas in 1945, is  a leading American philanthropy located in Philadelphia with over $3.7 billion in assets and a $155 million annual grant budget. Our approach to grantmaking is focused on one central idea: let’s help make more lives better by connecting more people to more opportunities and more resources. We aim to do this work in the Philadelphia region particularly for groups of people who have often been shut out of opportunity in the past because of disinvestment, discrimination, or systemic inequities.

The Foundation makes grants in five programs, primarily focused in Philadelphia and its surrounding counties:

  • Arts and Culture – Increase access to diverse, inclusive arts and culture experiences.
  • Children and Families – Expand access to programs and resources that support the healthy development and academic success of young children, ages 0-8.
  • Environment and Public Space – Increase access to the benefits of natural areas, public spaces, and community assets while decreasing harmful impacts on the environment.
  • Democracy and Civic Initiatives – Expand engagement in democratic processes and collaborative efforts that make the city and region responsive to the needs of residents.
  • Workforce Training and Services – Support Philadelphia residents to successfully prepare for, secure, and retain family sustaining employment.

In pursuing our program goals and objectives, we will be guided by the following values:

  • Prioritize opportunities for communities that have been most affected by economic inequity, discrimination based on race, gender, or sexual orientation, and other forms of injustice.
  • Elevate community voice.
  • Value partnership, collaboration, and transparency.
  • Minimize and respond to the impacts of climate change.
  • Leverage our leadership to advance important citywide and regional initiatives and to respond to changing needs of the city and region.
  • Share our learning locally and nationally.

Further information on the principles that define these values is available on the Foundation’s website: https://williampennfoundation.org/funding/understand-our-grantmaking

Position Summary

The Program Director, Workforce Training and Services will be responsible for oversight of the Foundation’s newest grantmaking program, focused on reducing barriers to accessing and completing workforce training and employment retention. The program is focused on program and policy change that can help more people to engage with high quality training programs, complete those programs, and secure meaningful long-term employment in the fields for which they have been prepared.

Reporting to the Chief Philanthropy Officer, the Program Director serves as the intellectual and operational leader of the Workforce program. The Program Director will develop and execute a coherent grantmaking strategy, build and sustain a portfolio of high-impact grants, and represent the program to the Foundation’s Board of Trustees, grantees, peer funders, professional associations, and the broader community.

The Program Director is expected to manage work successfully in the domains described below, while ensuring connections to the Foundation’s overall mission working in collaborative fashion with fellow Program Directors, Program Officers, other members of the management team, and staff throughout the organization.

This staff member is joining the team at an exciting time for the Foundation, when economic mobility in the Philadelphia region has garnered increasing attention from multiple stakeholders across government, nonprofits, and philanthropy. The Program Director, the first for our Workforce program, will have the opportunity to advance this critical work as the Foundation concludes the second year of our 10-year grantmaking strategy.

At this time, the Workforce program currently has an annual grantmaking budget of $5 million per year and 33 active grantee organizations. In addition, the two most recent Requests for Proposals (RFPs) the Foundation released in this program area have been supported in collaboration with peer funders. The Program Director will, through a combination of developing and managing RFPs, strategic individual grantmaking, and close collaboration with peer funders and the grantee community, manage grantmaking and related activities to achieve the following objective: By 2035, 10,000 individuals with high barriers to employment will complete workforce training and 85% will still be employed 12 months post-training.

In addition, the Program Director will develop deep knowledge of the organizations and communities they serve and support; manage relationships with internal and external stakeholders; and serve as an internal and external subject matter expert on issues related workforce training in the Philadelphia region.
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Executive Director of Development – Schools, Colleges, & Centers | Temple University

Position Summary 

At Temple University Institutional Advancement, we believe philanthropy is a powerful force for expanding opportunity, advancing discovery, and transforming lives. We are committed to fostering a workplace that values diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging, recognizing that a broad range of perspectives strengthens our ability to engage alumni, donors, and community partners in meaningful ways.

As Temple embarks on a historic $1.5 billion comprehensive campaign in support of the University’s Forward with Purpose strategic plan, we seek talented professionals who are passionate about higher education, relationship-building, and advancing a culture of philanthropy. We welcome candidates who will contribute to an inclusive, collaborative, and mission-driven environment where all employees are empowered to thrive and make a lasting impact on the future of Temple University.

Reporting to the Assistant Vice President for Schools, Colleges, and Centers, the Executive Director of Development is a senior frontline fundraiser responsible for securing major and principal gifts in support of assigned academic units and institutional priorities. The Executive Director manages a selective portfolio of high-capacity prospects and executes comprehensive fundraising strategies aligned with campaign goals. Working closely with Deans, Assistant Deans of Development, faculty, and university leadership, the incumbent translates funding priorities into compelling philanthropic opportunities and advances meaningful donor engagement. The role plays a critical part in pipeline development, campaign execution, and strengthening Temple’s culture of philanthropy.

Performs other duties as assigned.

Salary Range: $85,100 – $130,000

  • A hybrid work schedule
  • Full medical, dental, vision coverage
  • Paid time off
  • 12 Paid Holidays
  • Tuition remission – eligible employees and their dependents can obtain a degree TUITION FREE
  • A generous retirement plan and so much more!

Required Education and Experience 

  • Bachelor’s Degree.
  • At least seven (7) years of progressively responsible experience in major gift fundraising, preferably within higher education or a complex nonprofit environment.
  • Demonstrated success in securing six- and seven-figure gifts is required.
  • An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered.

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Chief Executive Officer | Northeast Treatment Centers (NET)

About Northeast Treatment Centers

Northeast Treatment Centers (NET) offers support and hope to individuals and families at times of great stress in their lives. Founded in 1970, NET is a Philadelphia-based nonprofit that has served children, youth, and families across the region for more than five decades. NET operates through its subsidiary, NET Community Care, as a Community Umbrella Agency under contract with the Philadelphia Department of Human Services, delivers a continuum of juvenile justice programs in partnership with the Philadelphia Juvenile Probation Office, and provides foster care, adoption, case management, violence prevention, and family support services across multiple sites in the city.

In May 2026, NET and JEVS Human Services jointly announced a service integration plan in which NET’s behavioral health services in Philadelphia and Delaware will be integrated into JEVS. The plan was developed collaboratively with Community Behavioral Health and reflects a shared commitment to continuity of care for clients and continued employment for staff. JEVS, an 85-year-old Philadelphia institution, brings deep operational capacity and a complementary mission. Both organizations will continue to advance their missions following the integration, which is expected to complete by the end of calendar year 2026.

With this integration, NET will continue to focus on the trauma-informed social service programs in which it has the deepest community roots and the strongest outcomes. NET 2.0 will operate at approximately $32 million in annual revenue across Philadelphia-based locations, carries no debt, and is largely program-funded rather than fee-for-service. The continuing service portfolio includes case management, community engagement, foster care, residential care, adoption, juvenile justice services, violence prevention programs, parenting programs, and child welfare services. NET enters its next chapter with operating surplus, balance sheet stability, a strong and tenured senior team, and an engaged Board of Directors.

Position Responsibilities

Strategic Vision and Leadership

  • Lead NET into its next chapter with a clear, credible vision for the organization’s role in Philadelphia child welfare, juvenile justice, and social services.
  • Bring sector knowledge and practitioner credibility to representation of NET in city, state, and partner settings.

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