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[quote=Anonymous]I'm a fundraiser.  If you have experience, you can find a job in a two weeks.  If you have no experience and are willing to start at the entry level, you can gain some valuable skills and look for chances to move up.  Non-profits usually offer more flexbility, and the fundraisers are typically better compensated than program staff.

There are so many non-profits based in DC that there's always opportunity.  Many of them are strapped for cash and have unrealistic expectations about what a professional fundraiser can accomplish in this recession.  So there's a very high rate of turnover.

The key is to ask good questions during the interview.  Ask the same questions (what are your short-term goals and your longterm goals, and what resources are you willing to expend to achieve them?) of every person who talks to you.  If they aren't all giving you roughly the same answer, move on to the next organization.  That's a company that is going to flounder for a while until a senior development professional comes in who knows how to move the board toward a common purpose.

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