Kristen D. Email & Phone Number

Lake County, Illinois, United States

Foundation

• As the Special Events Specialist, I managed fundraising and donor events in alignment with the CLC Foundation's vision, mission, strategies and annual fundraising plan. Event proceeds benefit the CLC Foundation.
• Annual Scholarship Gala -250+ Attendees -Program Includes: Speakers - Student Scholarship Recipients, Foundation Board, College Board, and Honorary Chair; Reception, Seated Dinner, Silent & Live Auction; Vacation Raffle
• Annual Golf Classic -140+ Attendees -Program Includes: Golf Tournament, Contest Holes, Silent Auction/Raffle, Scholarship Recipient and Title Sponsor Speakers, Awards DinnerMinor Fundraising and.
• Annual Scholarship Reception for Foundation Scholarship Recipients and Donors
• Lake Forest Symphony Post-Concert Receptions
• Annual Retiree Luncheon

Grayslake, IL

As the Senior Administrative Assistant with the CLC Foundation, I supported the activities of the Executive Director, Foundation Board of Directors, and development team. Daily projects included scheduling internal and external meetings, special events coordination, maintaining a calendar of all Foundation activities and events, internal and external.

College Of Lake County

As a Contract Employee for the College of Lake County Foundation, I provided support to the Executive Director and Foundation Staff. Some of my responsibilities include: cataloging electronic and physical files (donor and scholarship records) stored on multiple databases used within the Foundation Office; maintained the calendar of the Executive Director.

Northern Illinois Food Bank

• Serving in the AmeriCorps VISTA program, I had the opportunity to engage in a variety of fundraising, development and community partnership projects that yielded an increase in food pantries' capacity to store.
• Leading capacity-building projects targeting high-need network partners (e.g., community food pantries in low-income areas with high community demand and low resources to meet the need). I successfully built food.
• Developed, implemented, and evaluated new organizational pilot initiative “Look North”: a coalition of 30+ individuals and organizations dedicated to ending hunger in Lake County through collaboration of resources and.
• Volunteer/Donor Engagement: conducting corporate and individual prospect research, recruiting students and community members, relationship cultivation of current and prospective donors, and coordination of on-site.
• Special events planning including Look North bi-monthly meetings, Look North sub-committee meetings, focus groups, workshops, network partner training, and community educational seminars.
• Relationship manager between the food bank and network partners, volunteers, and community service organizations.

As a student fundraiser, I was responsible for relationship cultivation, gift solicitation, and donor stewardship of university alumni, LYBUNT and SYBUNT donors, event attendees and other supporters. My responsibilities included recording and processing donations (pledges and instant credit card transactions). These gifts benefited the Loyola University.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba, Organizational Dynamics, Honors

Fine And Studio Arts

Bachelor Of Science (B.S.), Psychology