Join the Sins Team!!
DEVELOPMENT COORDINATOR
0.33 FTE for 12 months, with possibility for long-term
Sins Invalid is a performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as members of communities who have been historically marginalized. Conceived and led by disabled people of color, we develop and present cutting-edge work where normative paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities. We present multidisciplinary by people with disabilities for broad audiences; organize performance workshops for community members with and without disabilities; and offer political education workshops for community based and educational organizations that share our commitment to social justice principles as a means of integrating analysis and action around disability, race, gender, and sexuality.
The Development Coordinator will work with the Executive Director to make the organization more sustainable by increasing stakeholders, including foundations and major individual donors, and creating compelling new fundraising materials that communicate the mission, vision and work of the organization. The position is responsible to partner in planning and implementing a strategy to raise $200,000 in operating funds.
Position Responsibilities:
• Coordinate grants including the production and submittal of up-to-date and compelling proposals, LOIs, reports, and other collateral as needed
• Regularly research foundations landscape to identify future opportunities
• Solicit in-kind and cash donations from local businesses and community organizations
• Engage in/manage major donor approaches
• Engage on-line giving strategies including leveraging online social networking for fundraising purposes
• Interface with funders’ community and stakeholders on behalf of Sins Invalid
• Devise/implement year end major ask fundraising event and/or mailing
• Document organizational development processes & strategies
Necessary Experience and Skills:
• Minimum two years non-profit fund development experience
• A successful record of attracting and sustaining public and foundation and funding
• Proven familiarity with social justice work in a non-profit work environment
• Experience and competencies in working in a diverse work environment
• Prior experience working in teams and in collective settings
• Ability to work independently
• Experience and familiarity with non-profit finances
• Experience with grants management and reporting, including experience working with multiple public and private funders
• Understanding and commitment to anti-racist and anti-ableist principles
• Extremely strong organizational skills, excellent time management skills and proven ability to work well independently
• Strong ability to set own goals/timelines and meet deadlines independently
• Excellent written skills and proficiency writing and editing letters of intent, foundation proposals, donor letters and donor materials
• Accuracy, attention to detail, and the ability to proof own work
• Excellent oral and interpersonal communication skills
• Demonstrated experience and proficiency with Mac systems and the internet
• Experience and proficiency with Word, Excel and the internet required
• Experience using “Web 2.0″ social networking tools (i.e. Facebook, Twitter, etc.) for fundraising purposes
Preferred Experience and Skills:
• Experience and competencies in working in a mixed ability, multiracial, multi-gendered environment
• Familiarity with performance related work in a non-profit work environment
• Prior experience mentoring
• Familiarity with the California Cultural Data Project
• Familiarity with Sins Invalid’s mission and programs
Compensation and Benefits:
Sins Invalid offers a competitive salary that is commensurate with experience. This position will be located at the organization’s headquarters in Berkeley, CA.
To Apply:
To apply, please send an email to info@sinsinvalid.org. Please write “Development Coordinator” and your name in the subject line, and include three attachments as pdfs:
(1) Cover letter including your (a) full contact information (b) the reason you are interested in this position (c) your familiarity with Sins Invalid (d) the unique experience, skills and qualifications you offer to this position and to the organization.
(2) Resume with three professional references.
(3) A relevant writing sample.
We will contact you if we wish to invite you for an interview.
Sins Invalid is an equal opportunity employer. Applications are strongly encouraged from people with disabilities; people who identify as LGBTQI; people of color; women; immigrants; people living with HIV/AIDS.
Reaching for Each Other: Movement Offerings across Abilities
A Sins Invalid Movement Workshop with Laura Malpass and Patty Berne
May 20th, 2012
2 – 4:30pm
518 Valencia
San Francisco, CA
Cost: Free
Registration required
(Please email your name, phone number, whether or not you identify as having a disability and any access needs to: info@sinsinvalid.org)
How do you express love and solidarity to the crips in your world? To the other bodies in your world – human, plant, and otherwise? What does your body want the world to understand about it?
This workshop will explore the wisdom of our bodies moving alone and moving together. This class is for all levels and abilities. If you are shy, this is the class for you. If you are a professional, this class is for you. If you think you can’t move gracefully, this class is for you. Why? Because we know your movement is beautiful and that we can experience connection with others across body type and ability. We look forward to it!
Facilitator Bios:
Originally from Roanoke, VA, Laura Malpass‘ dance training began leaping down local grocery store aisles and with an antique music box on her living room floor. She studied more formally at Southwest Virginia Ballet, School of the Grand Rapids Ballet, le Centre de Danse du Marais, and Hope College. While at Hope, she enjoyed choreographing and performing with StrikeTime Dance Company, promoting the arts in Michigan and Indiana public schools. Upon graduation, she moved to the Bay Area to explore work deeply rooted in emotional reality with Moving Arts Dance, under the direction of Anandha Ray. She currently thrives on creating collaborative works with Catharsis Dance Duo and teaching ballet, modern dance, and creative movement to all ages in the East Bay. She believes that dance can transcend all boundaries we perceive or feebly construct, empowering individuals and transforming communities for the better. In each class, she desires to foster growth and holistic health through creative self-expression.
Patty Berne is a Co-Founder and Director of Sins Invalid. Her passion for this work stems from living in a complex body which whispers while others bellow; her framing for this work derives from her work for disability justice and its intersections with gender based justice, queer communities, racial justice and her training in working with survivors of trauma of interpersonal and state-sponsored violence.
Cultural and Political Programs Internships for Summer 2012
Are you a ROCKSTAR?
Do you want to be a part of a team that creates GROUND BREAKING WORK?
Then apply for an internship with Sins Invalid!
Cultural and Political Programs Internships for Summer 2012
Sins Invalid is a San Francisco/Bay Area based performance project that incubates and celebrates artists with disabilities, centralizing artists of color and queer and gender-variant artists as members of communities who have been historically marginalized. Our performance work explores the themes of sexuality, embodiment and the disabled body. Conceived and led by disabled people of color, we develop and present cutting-edge work where normative paradigms of “normal” and “sexy” are challenged, offering instead a vision of beauty and sexuality inclusive of all individuals and communities.
We are seeking interns who know they have skills to contribute, are passionate about social justice, understand the importance of cultural work as a means of making change, and are excited about putting their beliefs into practice!
The Cultural and Political Programs Internship will give you hands-on experience with community relations and outreach, organizational development and fundraising.
Requirements:
- A minimum commitment of 3 days per week, from 1 – 6pm; shift days/times are negotiable for a minimum of 3 months.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office programs; our hope is that everyone has their own laptop/computer to work on.
- A strong attention to detail and ability to work independently.
- An interest in disability justice, racial justice and disrupting heteronormativity.
- If you are in school, either at a junior or senior level in college or the equivalent in life experience.
- Professional behavior at the worksite.
Benefits:
- Opportunities to build relationships with people from a wide variety of justice and performance related fields.
- Opportunities to learn deeply about the intersections of disability, race, gender and sexuality.
- Experience in non-profit administration.
- Opportunities to engage with Disability justice praxis.
To apply, please send an email to info@sinsinvalid.org. We will send you an intern application to be returned to us along with a current resume.
Our Summer 2012 projects open for intern involvement include:
Film Distribution Planning: We are completing a 41-minute film that reflects our one-of-a-kind performance work, weaving interviews of artists and co-founders alongside unreleased performance footage to serve as an entryway into the absurdly taboo topic of sexuality and disability. We will be premiering the film in Fall 2012 and are currently developing a distribution strategy that includes self-distribution, partnering with a non-exclusive distributor and screening at film festivals.
Webstreaming a Sins Invalid Performance: Many Sins Invalid community members who have connected with us through our web presence or our education work around the country are unable to attend a live Sins Invalid event. Additionally, due to the isolation of ableism, even local community members may face difficulties attending a live performance. In response to these challenges, we will offer our 2009 performance to be viewed on-line 24 hours/day during an allotted time.
Community Workshops: We organize performance workshops for community members with and without disabilities. In the past, these workshops have included poetry, dance, storytelling, erotic writing, dance, and vocalization workshops.
Movement Building: Through our invite-only series of “MAKING CONNECTIONS: Conversations Within and Between Communities,” we bring together political artists, cultural activists, and movement-building allies involved with radical social justice projects to cross-pollinate our politically and creatively informed works.
What a past intern had to say about their experience at Sins Invalid:
“Nothing short of fabulous… Sins pulls the pain and traumas from ableist oppression and turns it inside out into a complex celebration of beauty and sexiness. This doesn’t just happen on the Sins stage, but also in our program work: I’ve had exciting opportunities to interview on behalf of Sins live on the radio, learned invaluable lessons about what it takes to make base building happen, helped plan and launch a successful fundraising campaign to finish Sins – The Film (we surpassed our $15k goal!), I’ve developed my networking skills, I’ve participated in political dialogues I wouldn’t otherwise have been exposed to (like developing best practices for being a politically radical mixed ability organization, or how we negotiate the legacy of the freak show in disability performance)… Interning is nothing short of fabulous, sure, but don’t get me wrong—it’s also hard work. But that’s what Sins is about as a performance project and a disability justice movement-building organization: collaboratively building an approach towards increasing accessibility, towards making a space where we can co-exist as uniquely embodied subjects as we work to maximize our own skills—as they are—and develop them as such in a way that is sustainable, accountable, responsible, and interconnected. Whew. Might sound ambitious, and it certainly is but that’s the kind of hard work of historical pains and revolutionary pleasures.”
—Brooke, Intern @ Sins from June 2011 – June 2012.
Above: Sins Summer Interns 2011, with co/founders Leroy Moore and Patty Berne.
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