THE WORK, AND WHY THIS ROLE EXISTS

In 2025, SAPA's teams treated 750,000 patients and served 3.1 million meals in Sudan, Chad, Uganda and other parts of the world, in the places other organizations have left: the camps around El Fasher and Tawila in North Darfur, where SAPA kitchens were feeding 21,000 people a day as families arrived on foot; Zamzam before it fell; the displacement camps of Gezira and Kordofan; the refugee settlements across the border in eastern Chad and in Uganda; and Khartoum, where SAPA kept clinics open as the city emptied and reopened hospitals as people came back. 397 mobile clinics went where no clinic was left. 283,000 children under five were treated, 103,000 vaccinated. Every one of those sites is run by Sudanese doctors, nurses and volunteers, nearly 2,000 of them, working in their own country under fire.

Almost all of that was paid for by ordinary people. SAPA is funded mostly by individual donors, and the fastest-growing part of that support comes from Muslim communities across the United States and Canada: mosques, Islamic schools, student associations and community groups that have hosted SAPA speakers and raised money for a hospital ward or a kitchen they could name.

Until now that community fundraising has happened wherever a volunteer or board member had a connection. This role makes it a program. As Community Partnerships & Fundraising Officer for Toronto and the GTA, working with SAPA Canada, you own the Greater Toronto Area, home to one of the largest Muslim communities in North America: you build the relationships, put on the events and make sure the money raised reaches the wards and kitchens it was raised for.



You are part of a growing team of Officers across North America, each covering a major market, working within SAPA's Global Communications & Fundraising team.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The work is in person: in mosques, community halls, living rooms and school gyms, not online.

Faith-community partnerships

- Map the institutions in your market: mosques and Islamic centres first, then Islamic schools, MSAs, professional associations, Sudanese and East African community organizations, cultural groups and local businesses that back community causes.
- Build working relationships with imams, boards and community leaders; secure agreements to host SAPA appeals, collections and events.
- After Ramadan, widen the base: co-hosted community events, standing partnerships with organizations outside the mosque network, and updates from the field that keep every partner warm between events.

Ramadan fundraising

- Host one major SAPA iftar in your market each Ramadan: the flagship community fundraiser of the year, with a SAPA speaker, field footage and a live appeal.
- Run SAPA appeals and collections in other institutions across the month: pledge nights, Taraweeh appeals, Laylat al-Qadr and Eid collections.
- Book SAPA speakers into mosques for the last ten nights and coordinate in office collection and follow-up.

Community events





- Deliver three to five in-person events a year outside Ramadan: community dinners, a signature fundraiser, walks or sports events, student-led campaigns.
- Own the budget, venue, volunteers, program and run-of-show for each event, with design and promotion support from SAPA's communications team.
- Own how SAPA shows up in person in your market: banners, tables, collateral, speaker slides and the look of every event, in line with SAPA's branding and visibility guidelines, so that a SAPA event in Toronto is recognizably the same organization as one in Chicago.

Speaker and influencer network

- Build a network of local speakers, imams and community figures who can speak for SAPA, fundraise for it and describe its work on the ground in Sudan, Chad, Uganda and beyond; brief and equip them so they can carry the message without SAPA staff in the room.
- Place SAPA physicians, board members and recently returned field staff in khutbahs, panels and community gatherings; make sure every appearance has a way to give and a way to stay in touch.
- Establish a circle of local influencers (imams, physicians, community leaders, content creators) who visit SAPA's projects in Sudan, see the work first-hand and come back to speak about it. You identify and nominate them; SAPA organizes the visits.

Donor follow-through

- Work with the Donor Relations team to record every donor, pledge and partner in Salesforce after each event, so they are thanked and stewarded properly.
- Hand donors who can give at a higher level to SAPA's major gifts lead with a written introduction.
- Work with the Finance team to repor

📌 Community Partnerships (Canada)
🏢 Sudanese American Physicians Association
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