Philanthropy Manager

Arbor Hospice, affiliated with the Arbor Hospice Foundation, is a distinguished provider of compassionate end-of-life care located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. We are part of Hospice of Michigan, which stands as the largest non-profit hospice provider in the state. Our mission focuses on offering comfort, dignity, and peace to patients and their families during challenging times. With a dedicated team of healthcare professionals and volunteers, Arbor Hospice encompasses a community-oriented approach, ensuring that every person receives compassionate support and expert care. Our employment opportunity is a full-time, day-shift position focused on fundraising and philanthropy efforts within the organization, playing an integral part in sustaining and expanding our mission.

This role of Philanthropy Manager is central to Arbor Hospice and Hospice of Michigan’s fundraising and donor engagement endeavors. The Philanthropy Manager will be responsible for establishing, maintaining, and enhancing valuable community relationships, aligning those connections with the goals and philanthropic needs of the organization. This includes overseeing and coordinating a variety of development activities such as special fundraising events, third-party fundraisers, statewide project teams, and annual giving campaigns. Reporting to an assigned director, the manager will play a crucial role in both local and statewide projects aimed at increasing charitable contributions and promoting ongoing community support. The position demands a strategic and energetic individual capable of managing multi-faceted efforts including event planning, budget management, donor stewardship, and public relations.

The Philanthropy Manager will solicit, plan, implement, and evaluate large fundraising events, ensuring that these events run smoothly and deliver positive outcomes. They will actively recruit and coordinate committee members, seek corporate and individual sponsorships, and work in close collaboration with the communications team to manage event promotion and public relations. Additionally, the manager supports efforts relating to donor identification, cultivation, solicitation, maintenance, stewardship, and recognition, ensuring strong relationships and donor retention. An important part of this role includes staying informed about emerging fundraising trends and procedures in the nonprofit sector and applying that knowledge to benefit the organization’s fundraising strategies.

This position also involves financial responsibilities such as creating and managing budgets, submitting financial reports and invoices to donors in a timely manner, and ensuring all fundraising projects adhere to budgetary guidelines. Furthermore, the Philanthropy Manager actively participates in educational and professional growth activities, adapting to changing priorities while maintaining a high level of efficiency and professionalism. Frequent communication with donors, trustees, volunteers, and the public forms part of the essential functions, along with staffing committees and providing assistance to third-party event organizers.

The successful candidate must possess excellent interpersonal skills, sound judgment, and the ability to foster constructive relationships internally and externally. They must be adept at handling sensitive information with confidentiality, managing multiple tasks simultaneously under stress, and fulfilling physical demands such as occasional lifting and extensive telephone contact. Committed to the organizational code of conduct and standards of donor integrity, the Philanthropy Manager embodies the values of Hospice of Michigan and NorthStar Care Community by caring for every person, every time, fully dedicating themselves to this mission on a daily basis. This is a unique opportunity to contribute actively to the heartfelt cause of hospice care, building meaningful community connections that truly make a difference.