Development Coordinator

About Las Vegans for Better Transit

We advocate for world-class public transportation and the land use that makes it work through public education, community outreach, and coalition building. We're working toward a Las Vegas Valley where a family doesn't have to drive to get groceries, where a kid can get home from an after-school club without waiting on a parent, where households aren't sinking thousands a year into gas and insurance, and where the preventable crashes that hurt and kill people every year stop happening. Transit as part of everyday life for a real share of the valley, not something only some people use.

Our goal is to become the brand for transit advocacy and better urbanism in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area. We're a relatively new organization, but we're growing and building LVBT to last.

About the role

LVBT is a young organization with a goal that has to outlast any single campaign: becoming the durable, trusted voice for transit in the valley. That takes money — sponsors, foundations, and donors who keep the lights on between fights — and it takes someone running the groundwork that gets us in front of them. That’s this role. You’ll build and run the front end of LVBT’s fundraising pipeline: the research, prospecting, and outreach prep that would otherwise eat a senior person’s time.

When we walk into a conversation with a potential sponsor or funder, you’re the reason we’re prepared. It’s a strong fit for students interested in nonprofit finance, public affairs, or business who want to learn how fundraising actually works from the inside. You’ll work directly with the executive director — you do the groundwork, and the relationships get cultivated together.

What you’ll do

• Build the prospect list. Research potential sponsors, foundations, and individual donors — who they fund, what they care about, and what a credible ask looks like to them.
• Draft outreach. Write the cold emails, sponsorship decks, and grant inquiry letters that actually get read. The executive director reviews before anything goes out.
• Track the pipeline. Maintain the CRM so we always know who we’ve contacted, where each conversation stands, and what the follow-up is.
• Prep for meetings. When a conversation with a potential funder is on the calendar, make sure we know who we’re talking to and exactly what we’re asking for.
• Find grant opportunities. Identify foundation and public funding sources relevant to transit advocacy.

What we’re looking for

You don’t need fundraising experience. You do need:

• Curiosity and organization — you can find information that isn’t obvious and keep track of it somewhere useful
• Clear writing — your emails need to get responses
• Comfort doing work that isn’t flashy but matters, since pipeline research is the unglamorous part that makes everything else possible
• Roughly 3 to 5 hours per week, with more during active fundraising pushes

What you’ll get

You’ll come away with a real understanding of how nonprofit fundraising works — the mechanics of a pipeline, how foundations evaluate applicants, and what makes a sponsorship pitch land. You’ll build a portfolio of research and written work, get direct exposure to the org’s strategy and finances, and leave with a recommendation from a named executive director who can speak specifically to what you did.

This is a volunteer position.