"A Song For You"Charity Seeks Volunteers in Fundraising & Development (3-5 hours a week)

Background

A Song for You is a music charity based in New York City focused on writing & recording personalized songs for patients & families in hospice & hospitals to bring comfort, joy, and a little bit of peace to those at the end of life.  Born in the pandemic, we have been working as an initiative since then,& recently incorporated into a 501c3 non-profit. With a generous response from the community & journalists alike,  A Song for You has been featured in stories from NBC to ABC to Medium, Upworthy, Chicago Tribune, and PEOPLE Magazine.

Born in the pandemic, A Song for You is a grassroots art not-for-profit that provides essential healing and comfort to hospice patients (and their loved ones) at the end of their lives. Through personalized recorded songs, we honor the legacies patients leave behind while creating a final moment of connection between them and their families.What started as a singular call to action by our founder to ensure isolated Covid-19 patients did not die alone, (particularly in a moment in our world when families could not be in the room with one another) "A Song For You" has now grown into a nationwide movement and recently its own charity. Over a time span of 18 months, our artists wrote, recorded, and shared over 200 personalized songs, written from scratch, based on the stories of each individual patient as told through their families to help their legacies live on in song after they've gone. Songs were also written to honor first responders--including a staff as small as 100 Nurses to one song written for a healthcare system of 15,000 Nurses at Christmas last year to say thank you.  Following a most generous response from the community at large, we have expanded beyond the pandemic and pandemic patients to writing songs for patients in hospice and hospital. We have built a strong community of Artists, and attracted Grammy award-winning artists along with local, touring, and internationally awarded artists here and abroad.

Position Description 

Born in the pandemic, A Song for You is a grassroots art not-for-profit that provides essential healing and comfort to hospice patients (and their loved ones) at the end of their lives. Through personalized recorded songs, we honor the legacies patients leave behind while creating a final moment of connection between them and their families.

Position Description 

The Volunteer will function as a primary member of the A Song for You. Volunteers in this role would be key players on a small team helping a new non-profit build a donor base and raise funds through Corporate sponsorship & partnership, as well as support from individual donors, family foundations, grants, and such.

Benefits include contact with donors, high profile individuals (domestically and internationally) and artists.

Responsibilities include:

-Identifying appropriate funding opportunities & researching successful fundraising campaigns

-Developing fundraising strategies while helping elevate awareness of & activating the community to increase annual donations

-Help launch a fundraising campaign

-Proactively reaching out to supporters & potential donors & helping with Grant writing

-Data entry & record keeping ensuring that all donations are properly tracked & acknowledged

The ideal candidate has:

-Interest & experience in nonprofit work, development, and fundraising

-Strong writing and communication skills

-Dedicated attention to detail & the ability to take initiative and work independently. We are very collaborative, but this role is for someone who is very independent

-The capacity to think strategically and be familiar with the nonprofit industry & peer-peer fundraising

-A real comfort level with reaching out to contacts & prospective contacts/donors, and the ability to engage with community & potential corporate sponsors

--A love of the arts (not mandatory:)

To learn more-

https://hereisasongforyou.org

Start date--June 1, 2024. Hours: Flexible 5hours per week. This is a remote position.

If interested, please email a cover letter and resume to asongforyousongs@gmail.com