Liberty Prairie Nonprofit Seeks Fundraising Lead
A job opening if you have development experience and believe in a better food system
Liberty Prairie Seeks Individual Giving Manager
If you’re a regular Local Food Forum reader, you know I’m a big fan of the Liberty Prairie non-profit, based in the Prairie Crossing agri-community in the northeastern Illinois city of Grayslake.
Liberty Prairie NFP arose out of the Liberty Prairie Foundation, a former grants-making operation that for many years financially supported projects to build a better food system in and around Lake County in Chicago’s outer suburbs. Local Food Forum in December published two articles about the organization, one about the transition from foundation to non-profit (which including a merger with the former Prairie Wind Family Farm) and the other about the new farm store in the Prairie Crossing community.
I have now been informed that Liberty Prairie is seeking an Individual Giving Manager to raise money that will help the non-profit carry out its mission. According Liberty Prairie’s role summary:
The Institutional Giving Manager will play a crucial role in a deadline-driven, fast paced environment, contributing to mission fulfillment and fiscal stability. This self motivated contributor will be an important thought partner, synthesizing and distilling critical information to craft clear, succinct, and compelling funding proposals. The Institutional Giving Manager will manage the execution of a comprehensive program including foundation, government, and corporate funding that scales over the next several years.
If you are interested in this position, or know someone who this fits, please click the link below to access the full job description with information about how to apply.
Bob’s World, and Welcome to It
There’s really nothing good to say about my COVID experience, which I appear to be moving past. But if it had to happen, my lost week coincided with a siege of dismal weather: unceasingly cloudy, rainy, foggy, gross.
So Local Food Forum was pretty short on sky show photos in January — but February is off to a more promising start. Friday night’s sunset, in the photo above, was an explosion of light and color.
It was a bit cloudier and hazier on Saturday evening, so the dusk colors are a little more muted, but still lovely nonetheless.
We have less than two months before the sunrises and sunsets slip north to the other side of our apartment building, so more pretty sights like these would be greatly appreciated.