Fundraiser - $20/hr Guaranteed + Daily Bonuses

$20/hr guaranteed + daily bonus opportunities | 21-35 hours/week | Los Angeles | Paid training

Use your voice for something that matters. Build powerful communication skills. Work with a team of passionate, mission-driven people.

We're hiring fundraisers in Los Angeles to represent major nonprofit organizations working on human rights, humanitarian aid, civil liberties, environmental protection, social justice, and other important causes.

This role can be an especially strong fit for actors, comedians, musicians, dancers, writers, students, recent graduates, and other creative people who are comfortable expressing ideas, reading a room, thinking on their feet, and connecting with new people.

Fundraising and performance have more in common than you might expect.

You'll use storytelling, improvisation, active listening, confidence, and persuasive communication every day - while earning a guaranteed hourly wage and supporting nonprofit campaigns that matter.

No fundraising experience is required. We provide paid training and ongoing coaching.

Depending on your campaign, you may represent nonprofit organizations such as CARE, ACLU, Amnesty International, and other leading advocacy and humanitarian organizations.

Your conversations may involve issues such as:

• Human and civil rights

• Immigrant and refugee rights

• LGBTQ+ and trans rights

• Reproductive rights

• Racial and social justice

• Humanitarian aid

• Communities affected by conflict, displacement, and humanitarian crises

• Environmental protection and conservation

• Animal welfare

• Poverty reduction and community development

Campaign assignments can change depending on the needs of our nonprofit partners.

You do not need previous activism or nonprofit experience. You do need to be genuinely comfortable learning about important issues, discussing them respectfully, and representing the nonprofit campaign accurately.

This is face-to-face fundraising.

You'll work in communities throughout Los Angeles, starting conversations with members of the public, explaining the nonprofit campaign you're representing, and inviting people to support that work by becoming monthly donors.

A typical shift includes:

• Starting conversations with people you've never met

• Learning and communicating the nonprofit campaign

• Using storytelling to explain why the issue matters

• Listening, answering questions, and building genuine rapport

• Asking people directly to become recurring monthly donors

• Working alongside a fundraising partner and supportive team

• Practicing your approach and receiving regular coaching

• Working toward clear fundraising goals

Some people will be excited to speak with you.

Some will ignore you.

Some will say no.

Fundraising takes confidence, resilience, and the ability to reset and try again.

Your $20/hour starting wage is guaranteed, but fundraising performance still matters. You'll receive training, support, and coaching while working toward clear individual and team goals.

If you're used to performing, presenting, improvising, telling stories, or connecting with an audience, you're already bringing skills that translate well to fundraising.

We've had successful team members from a wide range of creative and performing arts backgrounds, including people who have studied at schools such as USC, UCLA, CalArts, AMDA, and the American Academy of Dramatic Arts.

You'll build practical skills in:

• Public speaking

• Storytelling

• Persuasive communication

• Reading a room

• Thinking on your feet

• Handling objections

• Building confidence

• Community outreach

• Goal setting

• Coaching and feedback

• Leadership

These are skills you can take well beyond this job.

We have an office in Koreatown, but the city is your workplace.

Most of our Los Angeles fundraising teams meet at our Koreatown location before heading out into the city together. Depending on the campaign and team, some fundraisers may meet directly in the field.

Our teams fundraise in different communities and neighbourhoods throughout Los Angeles, so the location can change from day to day.

You won't be sent out to fundraise alone. You'll work alongside a fundraising partner or team, travelling together, supporting one another, and getting to know different parts of LA along the way.

If you enjoy being out in the world, meeting new people, exploring different parts of the city, and having a workday that rarely looks exactly the same twice, you'll probably enjoy the environment.

We know many of our team members have lives and goals outside of work.

This role can work well alongside auditions, rehearsals, classes, freelance work, creative projects, or other commitments - as long as you can give us a consistent weekly schedule.

Team members must be able to commit to at least 3 complete 7-hour shifts per week - a minimum of 21 hours.

Current shift times generally include:

• 10:00 AM-5:00 PM

• 12:00 PM-7:00 PM

• Earlier starts may sometimes be available on weekends

Shift options and schedules can change depending on the campaign and needs of the team.

We require availability for full shifts. Partial shifts generally cannot be accommodated.

• $20/hour guaranteed starting wage

• Daily performance bonus opportunities on top of your hourly pay

• Regular pay reviews

• Performance-based raises

• Paid training from day one

• Approximately 21-35 hours per week

• Full-time and part-time opportunities

• Health, dental, and vision benefits for eligible full-time employees and their families after 3 months

• Paid time off

• Employee Assistance Program

• Opportunities to move into training and leadership roles

You are not working on commission. Bonuses are additional earning opportunities on top of your guaranteed hourly wage.

Every leader at Public Outreach has been promoted from within.

Our leaders started as fundraisers themselves. They learned how to connect with people, handle rejection, reach goals, coach others, and eventually lead teams.

If you perform well and want to grow, there are opportunities to take on more responsibility, develop leadership skills, help train others, and advance.

Whether you build a long-term career with Public Outreach or eventually take your experience somewhere else, you'll gain resume-worthy experience in nonprofit fundraising, advocacy, communication, donor engagement, public speaking, and leadership.

You may be a strong fit if you:

• Enjoy talking with new people

• Communicate with warmth, confidence, and personality

• Are expressive, curious, and comfortable thinking on your feet

• Care about nonprofit, humanitarian, environmental, human rights, animal welfare, or social justice causes

• Can handle hearing "no" without losing your motivation

• Are comfortable receiving feedback and trying a different approach

• Like having measurable goals to work toward

• Enjoy active work more than sitting behind a desk

• Are dependable and can commit to full shifts

• Want to build your communication, confidence, and leadership skills

Experience in acting, improv, comedy, music, dance, hospitality, restaurants, customer service, retail, fundraising, advocacy, volunteering, organizing, public speaking, or sales can translate especially well to this work.

But experience is not required.

We're much more interested in your communication skills, personality, curiosity, resilience, reliability, and willingness to learn.

We want this to be a workplace where people can actually be themselves.

Our teams include members of the LGBTQ+ community, and creating a space where people feel safe, respected, supported, and welcome is genuinely important to us.

We know that people from underrepresented communities often have to think carefully about whether a workplace will genuinely respect who they are.

Queer and trans applicants are welcome here. Applicants from underrepresented communities are encouraged to apply.

We want people with different identities, backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives on our teams. Discrimination, harassment, homophobia, transphobia, racism, or other forms of disrespect have no place in our workplace.

You don't need to fit a certain mold to work here.

Bring your personality, your perspective, and a willingness to learn.

• You must be 18+

• You must be legally authorized to work in the United States without employer sponsorship

• You must be able to consistently work at least 3 complete 7-hour shifts per week

• You must be available for full shifts rather than partial-day availability

• You should be comfortable working outdoors, walking, and standing for much of your shift

• You should be comfortable starting conversations with members of the public throughout the day

• You should be comfortable travelling with your team to changing fundraising locations throughout Los Angeles

• You need to be able to communicate confidently in English

• You should be comfortable receiving coaching and working toward fundraising goals

We're actively interviewing and looking for candidates who can start soon.

Selected applicants will receive an invitation by email and text to learn more about the role and meet our team.

We want you to understand what face-to-face fundraising is actually like before you commit.

Want to see our team in action?

Follow us on Instagram: @POUSAWEST

Visit our website: publicoutreachgroup.com

Public Outreach is a fundraising company that partners with nonprofit organizations to build support for causes that matter. Our fundraisers work directly with the public to help nonprofit organizations build sustainable support for their work.

Public Outreach is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome applicants from all backgrounds and are committed to creating an inclusive and supportive workplace.

Accommodations are available upon request throughout the hiring process.