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Community Initiatives employs over 700 nonprofit professionals every year. When our projects are seeking talented individuals to support their great ideas, we share those nonprofit jobs with our whole community.

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When you work for Community Initiatives, whether you are part of our core staff or an employee at one of our many fiscally sponsored projects, you benefit from sharing knowledge and expertise with thought leaders and staff with years of experience in the nonprofit field. In addition, our employees receive competitive benefits, which include:

Medical, dental, and vision
401(k) with employer match
Generous paid vacation, sick leave, and paid holidays

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Community Initiatives is a nonprofit service organization providing over 150 nonprofit projects with fiscal sponsorship services including tax-exemption, accounting and financial oversight, risk management and insurance, legal compliance, grants management, payroll, and human resource services.

Our fiscally sponsored projects represent all nonprofit sectors––arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and public affairs. While many of our projects are based in California, we welcome and support others operating in various states and international locations.

Chief Executive Officer

Community Initiatives | Oakland & Los Angeles, CA

Exciting CEO Opportunity: Leading Impact Across the Nonprofit Sector

Community Initiatives is seeking a visionary and strategic Chief Executive Officer to lead the organization through its next phase of growth and impact. As one of the nation's leading fiscal sponsors, Community Initiatives provides the operational infrastructure, financial stewardship, and strategic support that enable nonprofit leaders and social innovators to focus on advancing their missions. Reporting to and partnering closely with the Board of Directors, the CEO will champion a people-centered culture, drive organizational effectiveness, strengthen partnerships across the nonprofit and philanthropic sectors, and elevate the organization's visibility and influence.

This leader will guide strategy, operational excellence, financial sustainability, and sector engagement while fostering collaboration, innovation, and equity. The ideal candidate brings significant senior leadership experience in the nonprofit, philanthropic, or social impact sector, a deep understanding of fiscal sponsorship and organizational growth, and a demonstrated ability to inspire teams, build trusted relationships, and translate vision into measurable community impact. A competitive compensation package will be offered to the selected candidate. The base salary range for this role is $350,000 — $400,000, plus comprehensive benefits.

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Vice President of People & Culture

Community Initiatives | Oakland & Los Angeles, CA

As Community Initiatives enters a critical new chapter of organizational strengthening, growth, and culture rebuilding, the organization seeks a strategic, values-driven, and operationally rigorous Vice President, People & Culture to lead its people function and help build the cross-functional infrastructure required for a more coordinated, transparent, and high-performing organization. Reporting to the CEO and serving as a key member of the Executive Management Team, the Vice President will serve as the architect of Community Initiatives’ people strategy while also helping to strengthen the systems, processes, standards, governance, and execution discipline that enable effective collaboration across teams.

This is a significant builder role for a leader who can bring structure, clarity, trust, and modern people practices to an organization that has experienced rapid growth, evolving service demands, and inconsistent systems, documentation, workflows, and accountability practices. Community Initiatives’ fiscal sponsorship model creates a uniquely complex operating environment, with responsibility for both internal staff and project employees across a diverse portfolio of approximately 120 fiscally sponsored projects and hundreds of employees nationally. The Vice President will need to understand the people, risk, compliance, service delivery, and operational implications of this model and help design scalable approaches that support both organizational staff and project-facing operations.

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Client Services Manager

Community Initiatives | Oakland/Los Angeles, CA, Hybrid

Community Initiatives’ Client Services Department delivers high-quality project relationship management to our nonprofit projects. Serving as the primary point of contact from the Client Services Team for an assigned portfolio of Fiscal Sponsored Projects (FSPs), the Client Services Manager provides exceptional service, support, and guidance to help projects achieve their goals while operating in compliance with Community Initiatives’ policies and procedures.

The Client Services Manager works both independently and collaboratively to support a diverse portfolio of projects that vary in size, complexity, and stage of development. This position is responsible for building strong client relationships, assessing and addressing operational and administrative needs, and providing practical guidance to support project success. The role requires critical thinking, sound judgment, and the ability to analyze issues, identify solutions, and coordinate with internal teams to resolve challenges effectively.

Teaching Artist

Give a Beat | Part-time, Los Angeles

As a Give a Beat (GAB) Teaching Artist (TA), you are an educator, artist, culture-builder, and trusted representative of Give a Beat in prisons, juvenile halls, schools, and community programs. You bring expertise in DJing and music production while creating learning environments where participants can develop creative skills, agency, connection, and a sense of belonging.

This position consists of more than teaching classes. TA’s are essential to building and maintaining the culture of Give a Beat. In addition to teaching, you will collaborate with other TAs and staff, communicate consistently, document your work, collect data, participate in GAB meetings and professional development, and help us continually learn from the people and communities we serve.

GAB recognizes that Teaching Artists bring valuable lived experience, cultural knowledge, artistic perspective, and relationships into our programs. We seek TAs who can bring those perspectives into our organization in ways that inform and improve our programs and culture while honoring the experiences and voices of participants.

Associate Director of Communications

Attendance Works | Remote

The Associate Director of Communications for Attendance Works manages key editorial, mission-driven projects within the communications department with the goal of expanding Attendance Works reach. This position manages the following critical interdepartmental initiatives: Production management, including production of tools, resources, reports and other materials; management of the national Attendance Awareness Campaign; and management of Attendance Works social media presence. The position provides substantive support to the Director of Communications on a wide range of other projects.

Attendance Works is a national, nonprofit initiative, fiscally sponsored by Community Initiatives in Oakland, CA. Operating virtually, Attendance Works is the nation’s go-to resource for attendance policy and practice. Attendance Works advances success in school and beyond for all students by reducing chronic absence prek-12. Funded by a combination of grants and fees, we employ a diverse team of staff located throughout the United States.

Project Accountant

Community Initiatives | Oakland/Los Angeles, CA, Hybrid

Seeking a Project Accountant
The Project Accountant position is a hands-on growth position responsible for the accurate and timely provision of accounting services to support and enhance the Community Initiative’s clients. The Project Accountant will have a working relationship with the Client Services Team and the various projects sponsored by Community Initiatives, as well as provide support for other positions within the administrative section of the organization. Reports to the Assistant Controller.

Community Initiatives is an Oakland-based nonprofit service organization providing over 150 nonprofit projects with fiscal sponsorship services including tax-exemption, accounting and financial oversight, risk management and insurance, legal compliance, grants management, payroll, and human resource services. Our fiscally sponsored projects (FSPs) represent all nonprofit sectors––arts and culture, education, environment, health, human services, and public affairs. While many of our projects are in the San Francisco Bay Area, others operate in various states and international locations.

Executive Director

Give a Beat | Los Angeles County, CA, Remote

Give a Beat is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to use the power of music as a pathway to healing and opportunity for those impacted by the criminal justice system. Since our founding in 2014, we have harnessed the guiding principles of electronic music culture—peace, love, compassion, inclusivity, and understanding—to create opportunities for creativity, empowerment, and systemic change in some of our most vulnerable communities.

Our programs—including music production and DJ training in youth detention and adult correctional facilities, community workshops, and an alumni network—reflect our vision of a world where those most affected by incarceration are not only shown compassion and dignity, but empowered to forge creative talents and meaningful careers.

Give a Beat is seeking a visionary, mission-driven Executive Director (ED) to lead the organization into its next chapter. The ED will work with the Board, staff, and community to strengthen programs, expand resources, and deepen our impact at the intersection of music, youth development, and systemic reform. The position is remote but within Los Angeles County, and the ED has the ability for site visits and staff supervision.

Birth Justice Ecosystem Fellow

Funders for Birth Justice & Equity | Remote w/limited travel possible

Funders for Birth Justice & Equity is the go-to place for any funder or donor who wants to learn how to effectively fund the birth equity and justice movement. Here donors and funders may find the education, framework for change, resources, peer support, and collective funding opportunities needed to fund the field at a level that will get to systemic and transformative change.

FBJE seeks a Birth Justice Ecosystem Fellow to support a time-limited research and synthesis project focused on current conditions across the birth justice ecosystem.

This fellowship will help FBJE build on existing field knowledge and prior landscape work to better understand what is happening now across the ecosystem, including emerging pressures, field infrastructure needs, and opportunities for more coordinated philanthropic support.

The fellow will support research, data organization, synthesis, and storytelling that will inform FBJE’s 2026 convening and future ecosystem infrastructure work.

Program & Leadership Manager

The Healing WELL | San Francisco, CA

The Program & Leadership Manager is a key leadership role for a motivated self-starter who thrives in a collaborative, community-based environment. We are a small team doing mighty work. You will provide strategic leadership, ensuring our approach and offerings align with community needs and opportunities. This position combines program development and management and staff supervision. In partnership with the Director, staff, and participant leaders, you will foster a safe, supportive, and empowering environment where growth can flourish and the community’s vision of wellness and leadership is advanced.

Founded in 2015, The Healing WELL fosters wellness and leadership within the Tenderloin community. We recognize that true healing requires addressing not just physical needs but also mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being. We offer free daily classes (e.g., yoga, poetry, recovery support groups) as well as 1:1 sessions such as Reiki and Healing Touch. Our Leadership Program supports neighbors in becoming wellness advocates in their community. Through the skills and principles they gain, participant leaders learn to model healthy choices, create wellness programming with community in mind, and advocate with confidence on behalf of their peers. Together, we create a sanctuary for neighbors facing poverty, substance use disorders, and mental health challenges.

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Administrative/Project Associate

Community Initiatives | Los Angeles, CA

To better serve our growing network of projects, we are excited to announce the opening of our new Los Angeles office. This expansion allows us to offer more localized support to our projects in Southern California, strengthening our ability to provide tailored services and fostering closer connections with the communities we serve across the region.

The Administrative/Project Associate position is a full-time, mid-level role dedicated to supporting the VP of Strategic Partnerships by providing comprehensive administrative and project management support. This role is essential in ensuring the smooth operation of the VP's office, including managing scheduling, conducting research, preparing documents and presentations, and handling office management tasks for the Los Angeles office.

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Accounting & Payroll Support Specialist

Community Initiatives | Oakland/Los Angeles, CA, Hybrid

Seeking an Accounting & Payroll Support Specialist!
Community Initiatives is an Oakland-based nonprofit service organization providing over 100 nonprofit projects with fiscal sponsorship services including tax-exemption, accounting and financial oversight, risk management and insurance, legal compliance, grants management, payroll, and human resource services. The Accounting & Payroll Support Specialist position is a full-time position designed to work 40 hours weekly reporting to the Controller. It is a hands-on growth position responsible for the accurate and timely provision of services to support and enhance the Community Initiative’s payroll, accounts payable and other accounting processes, in support of the various projects sponsored by Community Initiatives.