Location: Flexible – must be comfortable working from a home-based environment
Reporting to: Chief Development Officer Under the guidance of the Chief Development Officer, the Corporate & Foundation Relations Manager works closely with the organization’s overall leadership team, to create and manage a well-coordinated, strategic development plan to cultivate, steward, and solicit support from foundations, corporations and government sources. This position specifically works to establish long-term partnerships, strengthen existing relationships and initiate new contacts within these entities.

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COMMUNITY & PROGRAM INTERNSHIP

Job Location: Within New England – currently defined as Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont, preferably in Boston or Somerville, Massachusetts (accessible via Boston’s subway system, known as “the T”)
Reports to: Director of Family Engagement The Community & Program Interns are an integral part of the Program Team and play a hands-on role in all Family Equality Council community programs. This unpaid internship involves community outreach, event planning and execution, use of social media, fundraising, and much more. Success in this position requires excellent organizational skills, the ability to problem solve independently, a team-oriented mindset, highly developed communication skills (written and verbal), superior interpersonal skills, and a commitment to social justice … and fun!

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Family Equality Council provides a team-based environment and we value the benefits of a diversified workplace. Women, people of color, transgender individuals and members of other underrepresented populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Family Equality Council is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate based on age, citizenship, physical or mental disability (including HIV status), ethnicity, family responsibilities, gender identity and expression, marital status, matriculation, national origin, physical appearance, race, religion, political affiliation, sexual orientation, union membership, veteran status or other unlawful factors, with respect to recruiting, hiring, job assignment, promotion, discipline, discharge, compensation, training and other terms, conditions and privileges of employment.

Family Equality Council connects, supports, and represents the three million parents who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer in this country and their six million children. We are changing attitudes and policies to ensure that all families are respected, loved, and celebrated—including families with parents who are LGBTQ. We are a community of parents and children, grandparents and grandchildren that reaches across this country. For over 30 years we have raised our voices toward fairness for all families.

WHY WE ARE NEEDED

• Parents who are LGBTQ care about the same things all parents do—hugs and homework, bedtime and bath time.
• LGBTQ parents want the same things for their children that all parents do—respect, protection, celebration, and a bright future.
• LGBTQ parents are raising their children to love their country, stand up for what’s right, treat others the way they would like to be treated, and tell the truth.
• And the truth is, all too often society still discriminates against these parents and their children based on their parents’ love for each other.
• All too often, the law still treats these family members as strangers.
• Family Equality Council looks forward to a day when all families are valued for their commitment to each other.

BECAUSE OF OUR WORK:

• Parents who are LGBTQ come together in a strong community that provides friendship, good advice, and support—just like any other community of parents.
• Children with parents who are LGBTQ can meet, play, and make friends with other children who have LGBTQ parents.
• LGBTQ men and women can find information on starting a family, adopting, or becoming foster parents—and children can find forever families.
• More Americans know a family with parents who are LGBTQ — and realize how much we have in common.
• Children are safer from bullying.
• More schools, places of worship, hospitals and clinics, and government agencies treat families with parents who are LGBTQ with the respect that all families deserve.
• The law more often recognizes those who have made the commitment to be parents, regardless of their sexual orientation or gender identity.
• We are creating a world where all loving families are recognized, respected, protected, and celebrated.