Category: Executive Level

Executive Director: The Leeway Foundation

The Leeway Foundation supports women and trans artists and cultural producers working in communities at the intersection of art, culture, and social change. Through their grantmaking and other programs, they promote artistic expression that amplifies the voices of those on the margins, promotes sustainable and healthy communities, and works in the service of movements for economic and social justice. At a pivotal moment of change with Leeway’s long-time leader moving on, Leeway now invites applications and nominations for its next Executive Director.

The Executive Director will lead an exemplary staff, in partnership with a committed board, to continue to fund the impactful work of cultural producers in the Philadelphia area, expand resources deployed to support grantees and applicants, and influence the field of philanthropy to shift power to artists and communities they support.

ORGANIZATIONAL OVERVIEW

Leeway believes that art is a vital tool for community building, self-expression, and individual and collective transformation. Art can bridge differences, center those who have been on the margins, and challenge and connect communities and individuals to live in peaceful coexistence. The organization and its people envision a world in which art flourishes in many forms as the cultural life blood of communities, where all have access to creative expression regardless of who they are, and where art and art-making is considered an essential element of our collective efforts to create a more just, peaceful world where all can live in dignity. Leeway’s guiding values are community, diversity, continuity, integrity, opportunity, originality, and social impact, as further detailed on its website.

At present, Leeway invests in artists through a range of grantmaking programs and other supports, including:

  • Susan DiPronio (ACG’07, LTA’13)
  • Sistah Mafalda (ACG’13, WOO’17)
  • Rasheedah Phillips & Camae Ayewa (ACG’07, LTA’15), aka Black Quantum Futurism
  • Sosena Solomon (ACG’13, LTA’14)

Art and Change Grant (ACG) provides grants of up to $2,500 for projects by women, trans, and/or gender nonconforming artists and cultural producers living in Greater Philadelphia and working on art for social change. Awarded projects must be supported by or in collaboration with a change partner (person, organization, or business that is part of the project).

Leeway Transformation Awards (LTA) are unrestricted annual awards of $15,000 to women, trans, and gender non-conforming artists and cultural producers living in Philadelphia who have a track record of creating art for social change that impacts a larger group or audience.

Media Artist + Activist Residency (MAR) provides grants of $25,000 (a $15,000 grant to the artist and a $10,000 grant to the organization) for work that documents, reframes, and/or amplifies the issues and campaigns addressed by the partnered organizations. The aim of this residency is to reveal and extend the ways that artists and the artistic process can work within organizations working towards social change.

Window of Opportunity (WOO) provides financial assistance of up to $1,500 to previous Leeway grant and award recipients who use the funds to take advantage of time- sensitive opportunities to support their art for social change. Those opportunities could be training or development workshops, conferences, residencies, travel, costs associated with documentation of a project, rental of equipment, purchase of materials, or payment of services for outreach or distribution.

Community Care Fund (CCF) provides financial assistance to Leeway grant and award recipients experiencing emergency needs. While planned to sunset, this fund grew out of Leeway’s COVID-19 Relief Fund and is an example of the organization’s responsive and holistic support for its community.

Funded by an initial gift from Philadelphia-based artist Linda Lee Alter in 1993, Leeway Foundation was established “to promote the welfare of women and to benefit the arts” in the five-county Philadelphia area and “encourage their increased recognition and representation in the arts community.” Through the leadership of outgoing Executive Director Denise Brown, Leeway’s commitment to funding women, trans, and gender-nonconforming artists and cultural producers creating work at the intersections of art, culture, and social change came about as the result of the foundation’s intention of finding ways to more fully live out its mission, as did its participatory grantmaking model. To learn more about Leeway’s history, please visit: www.leeway.org/about/history.
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Director of Strategic Initiatives: Beyond Literacy

BeLit is Philadelphia’s leading adult literacy nonprofit. We pride ourselves on high quality service to over 1500 striving adults annually through cost-free educational services including English language learning, GED-prep, digital literacy, family literacy, and career preparation. Come join our staff and help us change lives through literacy!

Job Summary 

Beyond Literacy is seeking a dynamic, experienced nonprofit professional to join our team as the Director of Strategic Initiatives. The Director will play a pivotal role in guiding the organization through its next strategic planning process and phase of impact. This position offers a unique opportunity to support the development and implementation of strategic initiatives that will shape the future direction of BeLit.

The role will have both internal- and external-facing responsibilities, ranging from cross-departmental project management, issue advocacy, advancement work, administrative work, and community events. The ideal candidate will handle complex situations and multiple responsibilities simultaneously, mixing long-term projects with the urgency of immediate demands. They must have the demonstrated ability to deal with confidential information and act as a liaison between the CEO and other constituencies. They must exhibit the skills to collaborate with and achieve actionable results through others, the ability to build strong and sustainable relationships, and the capability to interact within all levels of the organization.

The Director of Strategic Initiatives will serve as a thought partner to the CEO and senior leadership by identifying the organization’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats, as well as the external factors that affect its performance and growth. In monitoring and evaluating the progress and outcomes of the strategic plan, the Director of Strategic Initiatives collaborates with other senior leaders, stakeholders, and partners to ensure the goals, tasks and initiatives are aligned with the policies and values of the organization. The Director will work closely with the CEO and other key stakeholders to operationalize priorities and mobilize resources that advance our mission.
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Legal Director: Legal Clinic for the Disabled

For over 35 years, the Legal Clinic for the Disabled (LCD) has worked to empower low-income people with disabilities and the deaf and hard of hearing in the Philadelphia region by providing free legal representation to overcome legal obstacles that would otherwise affect clients’ independence, health, or quality of life. LCD is headquartered in Center City, and our practice areas include family, housing, planning documents, public benefits, and social security law. Through LCD’s Medical-Legal Partnership Initiative, staff work directly with medical partners at multiple sites across Philadelphia, and through our Housing Initiative, LCD actively participates in the Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Project. Additionally, we conduct general telephone intake and hold Community Legal Outreach Clinics. Last year alone, LCD served over 1,900 clients and more than 2,000 additional household members, furthering our mission to foster inclusion, independence, and justice for all.

Position Overview:

The Legal Director reports to the Executive Director (ED) and is responsible for working with the ED to provide leadership to ensure that LCD achieves its overall mission and annual objectives. The Legal Director leads, manages, and supports legal personnel who provide direct client representation and serves as lead counsel or co-counsel in major litigation. The Legal Director also oversees the development and dissemination of legal information (e.g., cases, statutes, and regulations) to provide support to the legal team and assure staff knowledge remains up to date.

Responsibilities:

Leadership:

  • Participates in the agency management team and functions as Acting ED when the ED is absent or otherwise unavailable
  • Participates in annual development of LCD’s areas of work
  • With the ED, establishes program benchmarks and recommends improvements; develops standards for reporting, accountability, and measuring success; and makes program development recommendations to the ED
  • Participates in planning and applying for LCD fund diversification, including grant writing and review

Legal Team Management:

  • Day-to-day leadership and oversight of the agency’s legal work and legal team members;
  • Leadership and oversight of the agency’s advocacy work
  • Participates in regularly scheduled meetings with all legal team members
  • Engages in legal work on behalf of clients and maintains a personal case load
  • Establishes procedures for each step of LCD’s direct services of clients beginning with intake, determining which cases LCD will take based on resources, and the distribution of cases to staff
  • In conjunction with the Supervising Attorney, oversees MLP operations at each site, including referral forms and processes, provider trainings, and staffing
  • Supervision of attorney case work and court appearances when the Supervising Attorney is otherwise unavailable
  • Works with staff to establish annual goals/expectations and conducts 6-month check-ins with staff regarding goals/expectations
  • Works with the ED to recruit and hire legal team members
  • Oversees orientation and training of new legal team members
  • Files impact litigation
  • Identifies experienced practitioners to provide mentoring for staff attorneys in new practice areas and other counties
  • Oversees the pro bono arm of LCD’s direct services

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Director of Development: Legal Clinic for the Disabled

Legal Clinic for the Disabled (LCD), a mid-sized legal services agency, is a nationally-recognized leader in the medical-legal partnership movement, an approach that provides immediate access to a legal advocate within preventative medical settings to identify and address unmet legal needs before they reach a crisis point, yielding better client health outcomes. We are on a significant growth trajectory with momentum that will flow into the realm of fundraising opportunity.

Our values of access to justice; client-centricity; diversity, equity, and inclusion; commitment; and integrity are evident in all we do.

For over 35 years, LCD has worked to empower low-income people with disabilities and chronic health conditions and people who are deaf and hard of hearing by providing free legal representation to overcome obstacles that would otherwise affect clients’ independence, health, and quality of life. LCD is headquartered in Center City. We work directly with medical partners at nine hospitals and health centers across Philadelphia and we actively participate in the Philadelphia Eviction Prevention Project in partnership with five other legal service agencies. Last year alone, LCD served over 1,900 clients and more than 2,000 additional household members, furthering our mission to foster inclusion, independence, and justice for all.

Position Purpose:

Build a major gift fundraising program, expand our donor base, and diversify our funding sources. Our new strategic plan hinges on strong guidance and influence of this development leader to help us realize our full organizational potential.

Reporting:

The Director of Development is a member of the leadership team, reporting to the Executive Director and actively working with members of the Board of Directors.

Support:

Administrative support is shared.

Position Overview:

The Director of Development, working in conjunction with the Executive Director and Board of Directors, leads all LCD fundraising activity, including donor relationship building, major gift solicitation, planned giving, annual giving, grant development, and special events. They will productively engage with individuals at all levels of seniority both within and outside of the organization, including the LCD Board of Directors.
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President and Chief Executive Officer: Please Touch Museum

Please Touch Museum (Museum or PTM) seeks a visionary, strategic, and exceptional organizational leader to serve as its next president and CEO (president).

Founded in 1976 by a Montessori educator, PTM is the only children’s museum in the sixth largest city in the nation, Philadelphia, and has been voted a USA TODAY/10 Best Readers’ Choice Top 10 children’s museum four years in a row. Located in Memorial Hall, a National Historic Landmark and one of only two remaining buildings from the Centennial Exposition in 1876, the Museum’s mission is to change a child’s life as they discover the power of learning through play.

Today, the Museum welcomes 400,000 to 500,000 visitors annually, of which 30 percent attend for free or reduced admission. With two floors of fun, the Museum features over 15 permanent exhibits for children to engage with, as well as literacy, science, and creative and performing arts programs. PTM has a staff of 80 employees and a point of pride for the Museum is that 66 percent of its staff identify as people of color and/or are members of the LGBTQ+ community. A leader in informal and early childhood learning, the Museum partners with regional colleges and universities on research studies. Noted as a standard of excellence in the field, it is accredited by the American Alliance of Museums.

The next president will join the Museum at a pivotal time. PTM is embarking on a comprehensive Interpretative Plan that will outline a strategic framework and implementation roadmap to enhance the play-based visitor experience for multigenerational learners across exhibits and programs. Earlier this year, the Museum began a $4.2 million marble floor renovation project in advance of the building’s 150th anniversary celebration in 2026. Given that the building’s celebration coincides with the 250th-anniversary celebration of American independence and the 50th anniversary of the Museum, 2026 will be a momentous year for both the Museum and Philadelphia. To commemorate this historic year, Please Touch Museum, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts and the Philadelphia Zoo are collaborating on a Children’s World’s Fair, an unforgettable, multi-generational, family-friendly experience that celebrates the promise of children as the leaders and decision-makers of the future and recognizes the Centennial District’s contribution to Philadelphia’s past, present, and future. In essence, it is an exciting time ahead.
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Director of Development: Wharton Esherick Museum

About the Wharton Esherick Museum:

The Wharton Esherick Museum (WEM) is the home and studio of Wharton Esherick (1887-1970), an internationally significant figure in the landscape of art history and American modern design. Set on 12 wooded acres, the Museum campus is comprised of multiple buildings including Esherick’s highly individual, hand-built Studio, which was constructed over a 40-year period beginning in 1926, and his 1928 Expressionist garage, which is now our Visitor Center. In 1973, just one year after its official opening as a museum, the Studio was added to the National Register of Historic Places. In 1993, the Museum was designated a National Historic Landmark for Architecture.

WEM celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2022 and is now working toward a campus expansion plan that would create new interpretive spaces and expand opportunities for visitors to experience Esherick’s sense of fun and endless possibility. Guided by a thoughtful long-term campus planning process, the vision includes both new capital projects as well as programming that will give Esherick’s story fresh relevance, introducing his life and work to a wider circle.

Summary:

The Director of Development (DOD) is a new role which will work to further the mission and reach of the Wharton Esherick Museum by creating, leading, and executing a comprehensive development effort to support our organizational growth and exciting future plans. This position offers a seasoned, energetic, and creative development leader the opportunity to partner with WEM’s Executive Director, staff, and Board of Directors in taking the organization into its next phase. The DOD will be a passionate and informed advocate for WEM, effectively engaging existing and potential supporters in its mission and programs. Comfortable balancing both relationship-oriented and task-focused responsibilities, the DOD will structure compelling opportunities for support at a time when this dynamic organization is preparing to embark on an ambitious fundraising effort.
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Executive Director: Historic Sugartown, Inc.

The mission of Historic Sugartown, Inc. (HSI) is to inspire the community to engage with the past through authentic 19th-century experiences, participate in the village’s present life and protect it for the future.

Founded in 1982 to preserve the richly authentic 19th-century crossroads village of Sugartown, Historic Sugartown stewards 11 structures and 9.2 acres located within the Sugartown National Register District in Malvern, Chester County, PA. Historic Sugartown’s collections interpret 19th-century rural village community life in Pennsylvania and early American craftsmanship including domestic, industrial, and agricultural artifacts. HSI also stewards collections owned by the Chester County History Center (CCHC) that support HSI’s interpretive programs and exhibits.

The Executive Director is the face of the organization and chief spokesperson, conveying passion of place, caretaking of its collections and promoting educational programs. The Executive Director oversees operations, finances, development, rental units and a small, dedicated staff as well as partners with the Board of Directors to guide strategic direction and planning.

Requirements

Education: Relevant bachelor’s or master’s degree.

Experience: Minimum 5 years nonprofit leadership and management experience;

Cultural, historical or preservation experience preferred;

Ability to lead staff, contractors, volunteers and interns.

Skills/abilities: Management, finance and administrative skills;

Proven track-record of fundraising and development;

Excellent written and verbal communications skills; ability to speak in public;

Strong interpersonal skills and ability to reach out to community leaders and dialogue

with colleagues in related fields;

Knowledge of Microsoft office and Google Suite; Quickbooks knowledge a plus.

 

Competitive salary ($60,000 – $70,000, contingent on experience), and benefits.

Historic Sugartown, Inc., is a non-profit 501 (c) (3) organization that does not discriminate.
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Manager, Individual Giving: Princeton University

Reporting to the Senior Associate Director for Museum Development (Sr. AD-MD), the Manager, Individual Giving is responsible for the entirety of the Museum’s individual annual giving program – including membership and the annual appeal campaign. This position will also manage a portfolio of lead annual giving donors who have elected to support the Museum outside of membership and will work closely with the Museum’s Major Gifts Officer to strategize increased engagement for those individuals.

The Manager, Individual Giving will reconceive the annual giving program to take full advantage of the extraordinary opportunity offered by the opening of the new Museum building in 2025. Strategic growth of annual giving is essential to creating a pipeline that will help to sustain and grow the Museum’s expanded physical and programmatic footprint in the new Museum.

About the Museum:

With a collecting history that extends back to 1755, the Princeton University Art Museum is one of the leading university art museums in the country, home to collections that have grown to include more than 115,000 works of art ranging from ancient to contemporary art and spanning the globe. Committed to advancing the University’s teaching and research missions, the Museum also serves as a hub for the humanities at Princeton for visitors worldwide. The Museum currently presents exhibitions in its two downtown venues (Art on Hulfish and Art@Bainbridge) and is touring collections exhibitions nationally and internationally. When the Museum opens its dramatically reconceived building, scheduled for 2025, it will initiate a new exhibitions program with annual exhibitions on-site and on tour.

Responsibilities

  • Leads the development, implementation, and manage creative, proactive, and effective strategies for broadening and increasing annual donated revenue for the Museum with gifts up to $10,000 from individual donors (including those engaged in the Museum’s membership program).
  • Collaborate with the Sr. AD, in reimagining the individual giving programs and associated materials in advance of the opening of the new Museum building.
  • Serve as the frontline fundraiser for annual gifts up to $10,000, including membership gifts, and is responsible for building and managing strong relationships with existing donors and prospects with the potential to be cultivated, solicited, and stewarded, and creating a pipeline of prospects and donors.
  • Researches, identifies, cultivates, and solicits new prospective individual members. Implements and enhances the various tiers of the membership programs and the annual revenue they generate through dedicated and ongoing cultivation and stewardship efforts, maximizing those that enable donors to feel valued and engaged in the Museum’s mission and that lead to increased philanthropic support.
  • Increases the number of households solicited through the annual giving campaign, designs and implements solicitations to achieve financial goals.

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Executive Director: Phoenixville Free Clinic

Phoenixville Free Clinic (PFC), formerly known as “The Clinic,” is a 501(c)3, licensed, non-profit organization and free health care clinic providing high quality medical services to adults and children who are uninsured and underserved in an atmosphere that fosters dignity and respect.  Founded in 2002 to serve patients in Phoenixville, PA and the surrounding area, Phoenixville Free Clinic is recognized by community and professional organizations for the dedication and quality of care provided by its staff and volunteers.  Medical services include primary care, specialty care and lab services.  A Behavioral Health program was introduced in 2023.

Phoenixville Free Clinic began as the dream of two women, Dr. Lorna B. Stuart and The Reverend Marie Z. Swayze, to create a medical center that would provide comprehensive healthcare to those who did not have medical insurance.  Since opening its doors, PFC has cared for over 175,000 patients in the Greater Phoenixville area and routinely serves individuals facing adverse socioeconomic conditions and multiple health problems.  Between 50-60% of patients are native Spanish or Portuguese language speakers who are served by staff translators and LanguageLine®.

Phoenixville Free Clinic’s mission of providing access to quality healthcare is enabled through partnerships with Phoenixville Community Health Foundation, Independence Blue Cross Foundation, United Way of Chester County, Paoli Hospital/Main Line Health, and Phoenixville Hospital/Tower Health among other community supporters.

Position Summary

The Executive Director will have overall strategic and operational responsibility for staff, programs, finances, fundraising, external relationships, and execution of Phoenixville Free Clinic’s mission in a manner consistent with the vision, goals and values of the organization and Board of Directors.  This position is dually focused on providing day-to-day leadership to staff and volunteers and guiding forward-looking initiatives to reimagine and ensure the long-term sustainability of PFC’s mission into the future.

The Executive Director will play a primary and highly visible role in identifying and developing funding opportunities and promoting collaborative partnerships and connections with a broad range of community non-profits, healthcare providers, private foundations, public charities, faith-based groups, educational institutions, government agencies, and other organizations concerned with access to healthcare services for uninsured members of the community.

Working in collaboration with the board, staff, volunteers and partners, this role sets the vision, builds consensus, and fosters a culture of shared teamwork toward common objectives.  The new leader will bring a resourceful, entrepreneurial mindset to help the organization meet unanticipated challenges, adapt to changes in the healthcare industry, and pivot toward opportunities that align with strategic goals.
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Executive Director: Philadelphia Jobs With Justice

Philadelphia Jobs With Justice is a grassroots coalition organization with a 25 year history of fighting for justice for working people in Philadelphia, both on the job and in our communities. We believe in long-term multi-issue coalition building, grassroots base building, organizing, and strategic action as the foundation for building a workers’ movement. We believe that by engaging a broad community of allies we can win bigger victories. Philly JWJ is an autonomous chapter of a national network of local coalitions. In addition to our mission of building solidarity between unions and community organizations to win bigger victories, our Board of Directors, composed of representatives of member organizations, develops strategic campaigns that build power for working people, particularly working people of color.

In 2018, in collaboration with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, Philly JWJ launched an autonomous domestic worker organizing project to build a broad membership base of domestic worker leaders in Philadelphia and win a Philadelphia Domestic Worker Bill of Rights. In 2020, following the passage of a 10-Year Tax Abatement reform bill that inadequately addresses the funding needs of our public schools, our leadership recognized an opportunity to launch a new campaign for wealthy nonprofits to contribute their fair share of funding to our public schools. After a year of sustained pressure, our campaign member leaders won a $100 million commitment from the University of Pennsylvania to fund the remediation of lead and asbestos in our city’s public schools. In 2022, Philly Jobs With Justice launched a campaign to build power and fight for safe and healthy workplaces for warehouse and delivery workers in Philadelphia. The Executive Director will play a lead role in advancing the goals of the campaign.

The Executive Director’s primary responsibilities include:

Program and Campaign Management:

  • Work with the coalition and Board to develop strategic priorities and plans;
  • Translate strategic plans into actionable steps with measurable benchmarks and outcomes;
  • Manage a coalition of 30+ unions and community organizations;
  • Perform day-to-day programmatic duties and tasks related to coalition and campaign work.

Staff Management: 

  • Create long and short term work plans for staff;
  • Conduct weekly check-ins to track progress and identify growth areas;
  • Promote staff development through identifying professional development opportunities.

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