Abel Frederic Email & Phone Number

Wichita, Kansas Metropolitan Area

- Plan, develop, and implement initiatives regarding the United Way investment strategy of health, education, financial stability, and basic needs to achieve measurable results that drive collective community outcomes.- Proactively work to identify and address complex community issues by providing leadership around gathering, interpreting, and using relevant data to inform and drive strategy development.- Implement best practices of grant-making in an objective and transparent manner.- Oversee the implementation, execution, and impact of direct services the United Way provides to its service area. - Implement grant writing expertise to increase organizational funding success, and effectively implement and manage grants to achieve desired outcomes within required guidelines.- Develop organizational capacity through volunteer collaboration and implement high impact, meaningful volunteer opportunities that increase revenue, outcomes, and influence.- Identify community strategies to connect with the interests of various investors and develop solutions as investment opportunities to connect donor aspirations with community needs.- Work with community leaders and elected officials to build on the United Way mission and advocate for health, education, financial stability, basic needs, and DEI issues. Encourage partner organizations to engage inadvocacy and to support issues important for the community.- Track, monitor, and analyze data and results of our community initiatives to communicate the social impact to our community.- Collaborate with the executive team to develop plans and strategies and help integrate our year‐round resource development, community building, impact programs, and special events.- Develop and cultivate professional relationships with key volunteers, business leaders, individual donors, community leaders, funded partners, and like-minded professionals.

Wichita, Kansas Metropolitan Area

- Identified potential contributors including individuals, corporations, and foundations to develop strategies to secure major philanthropic support. - Actively managed a portfolio of 50 prospects capable of making gifts of $100,000+, working closely with the Senior Vice President for Mission Services (SVP) and CEO to create compelling strategies for transformational gifts.- Developed and executed an annual fundraising plan that included individual giving, grant development, direct mail, special events, employee giving, and planned gifts.- Informed the CEO and SVP appropriately in major and principal gift activity, preparing information, keeping in constant communication, and guiding solicitation and stewarding opportunities. - Collaborated closely with the organization’s Communications Team to prepare printed materials, as appropriate. - Oversaw efforts for recruitment, development, and performance evaluation of two direct reports. - Developed, managed and actively participated in the annual strategic planning process to include budgeting, monthly business reviews and other financial metrics as required.

Manhattan, Ks

- Worked alongside the Dean of the College of Education to help advance the collegiate unit through philanthropy. - Grew and maintained a portfolio of seventy-five major gift prospects.- Increased the academy’s annual fundraising total by 50% within my first-year full year of employment. Taking the academy from $600,000 the previous year to $1.2 million in my first full year of employment. - Led the academy to complete its campaign goal of $18 million. This was done fourteen months ahead of the completion of the University’s overall campaign. - Raised $4.3 million in fiscal year 2019, the largest total in the academy’s history. - Developed and implemented a strategy for each prospect, including ways to increase involvement of donors and prospects in the activities of the University. - Utilized both current and planned gift opportunities to meet donors’ needs, philanthropic passions and financial capabilities. - Met with development and foundation colleagues, university partners including alumni association and athletics as appropriate to discuss major donor prospects, strategy and solicitation.- By utilizing a variety of foundation resources, provided regular progress reports on prospect cultivation and solicitations.

Topeka, Kansas Area

- Provided leadership to ensure the successful conception, planning and execution of all donor development, fundraising and related activities for the Foundation. - Increased the organization’s annual giving campaign by 13% within first year of employment. - Implemented policies and directives for the Foundation Board and served as the administrator for board needs such as developing meeting agendas, notices, minutes, etc. - Supervised four staff persons charged with coordinating major special events, the employee campaign, and soliciting corporate/foundation gifts and general constituency appeals. - Implemented planned giving and grateful patient programs during tenure as Executive Director. - Cultivated and solicited major donors and maintained a knowledge of gifting methods and strategies.

- Facilitated communication and relationship building with United Way of Greater Topeka’s community partners, key stakeholders, volunteers, and donors.- Experienced in communicating United Way of Greater Topeka’s message to large corporations.- Conducted fundraising presentations to key company executives, employees and other special interest groups.- Lead staff person for the assigned strategic areas of financial stability, health & basic needs. - Managed three volunteer committees of fifteen or more people.- Identified community development needs and activities and helped develop a new grant making strategy to invest in those needs. This included grant review training, collecting program data, and reviewing program invoices.

Juris Doctor, Law

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Political Science And Government