Development Consultant

About PPMNY

Plant Powered Metro New York (PPMNY) empowers the region’s diverse local communities to achieve vibrant health and overcome chronic illness with whole food, plant-based nutrition. Ample evidence shows that plant-powered eating can prevent and even reverse many of today’s common chronic diseases. Founded in 2019, PPMNY offers evidence-based education, resources, and support to inspire meaningful change, improve health outcomes, and reduce health disparities throughout the New York metropolitan area.'

Mobilizing a community-driven movement, PPMNY stewards a grassroots network comprised of 200+ educators and volunteers hailing from NYC and its surrounding counties who collectively work to:

• Raise awareness about the dramatic health benefits of eating a nutrient-rich diet of whole plant foods.
• Educate diverse populations about the power and practice of whole food, plant-based nutrition, with a special focus on communities that experience health disparities, older adults, and healthcare system patients and employees.
• Empower diverse residents to substantially improve their health using food as medicine.
• Provide ongoing peer-to-peer support toward behavior change and maintenance.

Fundraising Backdrop

As a dynamic organization in high demand, PPMNY has grown extensively in budget and scope thanks to a wide and passionate base of volunteers, educators, and supporters. Our million dollar budget in FY26 is diversified to an extent, with income from foundations, individuals, fee-for-service projects with organizations, and paid programs for community members. As we approach our seventh anniversary, we recognize the need to build a more robust development program to especially cultivate individuals and family foundations, and a more sustainable approach to fundraising that provides critical support to our Network Director and Board of Directors.

About the Development Consultant

PPMNY seeks a skilled fundraising professional to collaborate with our Network Director on year-end fundraising and a 7th anniversary gala, raising gifts from individuals and family foundations or trusts, plus corporate sponsorship of the anniversary and other educational events.

The initial consulting term will run from October 2025 through March 2026, with the potential to renew.

Responsibilities include:

• Creating and implementing a year-end fundraising strategy, to include donor engagement via exclusive virtual briefings, outreach to past donors for renewal, organizing board members for outreach, and strategic communications.
• Consulting to PPMNY’s marketing team on the development of collateral material to support the year-end cultivation process.
• Creating and implementing a fundraising plan for PPMNY’s 7th anniversary event, to be scheduled in early March, with featured honorees.
• Improving systems and advising on practices for development operations through PPMNY’s CRM (NeonCRM).
• Updating donor records as contact is made, to track touches and contributions.
• Beginning to steward a subset of up to 20 donors by actively keeping relationships warm and showing appreciation after a gift.
• Soliciting corporate sponsorships in conjunction with key programs during the project term, including the 7th anniversary event, two community nutrition seminars in the Bronx, and PPMNY’s signature dietary change programs.

Ideal qualifications of the consultant or firm:

• Demonstrated experience with nonprofit fundraising, preferably with a focus on individual donor cultivation and communications, event-based fundraising, and development operations.
• Professional demeanor, with excellent interpersonal and communication skills.
• Understanding of the current donor landscape and the financial and developmental needs of emerging nonprofit organizations.
• Experience working with nonprofit boards to support them in raising funds.
• Existing relationships in the philanthropic fields of health and wellness, nutrition, chronic disease or disease research, and social change.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• Preferably, passionate about the role of plant-based nutrition in health.