MLF is excited to announce the position of Relationships & Giving Intern.
The Relationships & Giving (R&G) Intern supports overall development operations with an emphasis on donor stewardship and data quality. The R&G Intern will support the R&G team to ensure donors are thanked, recognized, and stewarded in meaningful ways to deepen engagement.
This is a part-time, non-exempt internship position working within the Relationships & Giving Team and reporting to the Stewardship Specialist. Due to the nature and requirements of the internship, hours are flexible to fit needs but typically include 15-20 hours a week Monday-Friday, with the potential of some nights and weekends. The R&G Intern will office at Community First! Village located at 9301 Hog Eye Road Ste 950, Austin, TX 78724.
Download Job Description PDF • Posted 3/27/24
Founded in 1998, Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is a Christian social outreach ministry that empowers communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless. The organization’s innovative Community First! Village is the country’s largest master planned development designed specifically for men and women who are coming out of chronic homelessness, and has become a national model replicated by other organizations in different cities. With the support of tens of thousands of volunteers and more than 6.5 million meals served through its Truck Ministry, MLF has also grown to become the largest prepared feeding program to the homeless in Central Texas and has spawned similar food truck programs across the country.
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Work on a variety of Salesforce projects and reports, such as cleaning up foundation affiliates, maintaining the public tour report, etc.
- Work with the Stewardship Specialist to execute the acknowledgment letter process.
- Work with the Annual Giving Coordinator on various projects on Classy, our online giving platform.
- Manage honor/memorial gift notifications.
- Support the creation and implementation of personalized stewardship efforts.
- Partner with R&G team on executing stewardship and fundraising events.
- Support general R&G efforts as a whole.
- Other Duties & Responsibilities as needed
Knowledge, Skills, Abilities & Principles:
- MLF is a faith-based organization whose ideals and philosophy come directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ. As an organization, we strive to reflect this precept in our communications, both internally and externally.
- Commitment to serving those who have experienced homelessness and personal alignment with MLF’s vision, mission, core values, and goals.
- The ideal candidate will be technologically savvy, able to quickly learn new systems and processes, and focused on details.
- People-oriented and eager to cultivate relationships.
- Must have a valid driver’s license
Learning Opportunities
- Salesforce and Classy platform experience
- Working on a high-energy and high-performing team that is implementing cutting-edge fundraising techniques
- Build relationships with staff, donors, neighbors (residents of Community First! Village)
Program Information
- Estimated length of program: 8 weeks beginning Summer 2024
Work Environment & Physical Demands:
- Ability to lift 20 pounds
- Ability to work in a collaborative work environment
Our Purpose & Vision
We empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.
Goals
- Transform the way people view the stereotype of those who find themselves homeless
- To reconnect the homeless to self, family, and community
- Help the chronically homeless rediscover and utilize their God-given talents to do purposeful work
- To connect human to human, heart to heart through the fellowship of food and hospitality
- Inspire people to give abundantly and offer their best first
Core Beliefs
The vision is supported by core beliefs, all focused around our understanding that homelessness is the result of a profound catastrophic loss of family:
- God, infinitely prefect and blessed in himself, in a plan of sheer goodness, freely created man to make him share in His own blessed life
- By virtue of being created by God in His image, we are all called to live in community and relationship with Him through each other
- The family is the original cell of social life
- You shall love your neighbor as yourself
- All members of the human family are equal in dignity
- The Lord God took the man and settled him in the Garden of Eden to cultivate and care for it. Gen.2:15
Our Mission
We provide food and clothing, cultivate community and promote dignity to our homeless brothers and sisters in need.
Core Values
MLF is committed to fostering a culture that prioritizes relational connection. We believe there is opportunity in every aspect of our work to be relational in a highly transactional world. In this culture, transactions are means to relational ends, not the other way around.
This begins with the countercultural love poured out by Jesus Christ and grows as imperfect individuals strive to show this love to each other human-to-human, heart-to-heart.
Each individual’s openness to the journey of their own personal growth is essential in building our relational culture, and we believe this culture flourishes as we each continuously strive to more fully embody these four core values:
- Faith: We define Faith as the foundational belief that our world and all our work belong to God. This allows us to engage our work with joy and lightheartedness, knowing that we are not ultimately in control.
- Humility: We define Humility as rightly viewing oneself as a single piece of a grander story. This humility leads to a view of oneself that is neither too high nor too low.
- Generous Spirit: We define a Generous Spirit as a readiness to give more grace, mercy, and hospitality than is necessary or expected. This posture allows us to see others for who they are, not what they do.
- Integrity: We define Integrity as a wholehearted commitment to doing right by God, ourselves, and others. This wholeheartedness shows itself in consistently choosing honesty, responsibility and ownership in all actions and decisions.
MLF is a faith-based organization with its ideals and philosophy coming directly from the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.
MLF is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. Personnel are chosen based on ability without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, genetics, disability, marital status, or sexual orientation in accordance with federal and state law.
Learn more
Mobile Loaves & Fishes (MLF) is a social outreach ministry that has been empowering communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless since 1998. But that’s just our elevator pitch. Here are a few places to start if you want to get to know us better:
About MLF >
Our Leadership Team >
Media Coverage >
Community First! Village >
other ways to get involved
There are so many different ways to join us and help us empower communities into a lifestyle of service with the homeless.
