Adam Oliansky Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn, Us

St Paul, Minnesota, United States

Proposal Writing and Proposal Management: Prepare foundation grant applications, and work with program, clinical, research, and finance staff to obtain information for foundation funding proposals. Provide administrative support to government contracts and proposals, including supporting the organization of workflow, managing a timeline, generating and updating checklists, tracking proposal requirements to ensure they’re being met, scheduling relevant meetings, following up with program, clinical, finance and research staff to ensure timely completion of proposal tasks (including budgets and budget summaries), and writing supplemental materials such as draft risk analyses or gender analyses (under the direction of program staff, research staff, or strategic partnership officers).Program Support: As assigned, partner with program managers to support the contributed revenue needs of individual programs. Keep key connections with the institutional fundraising team, other CVT staff. Participate in phone calls, meetings and field visits needed to support current and potential partner engagements. Conducts research on company, foundation or country background information, sectoral/subject-matter best practices, and other information needed for concept notes, partnership development strategies and proposal design. Prospect Research: Conduct ongoing research on potential donors including foundations, corporations, religious and civic organizations, bilateral and multilateral donors. Identify connections between donors and CVT Board members, volunteers and staff. Stewardship: Acknowledge grants personally and formally or assist program managers in this when needed. Invite donors to CVT events and engage CVT staff members and volunteers with donors in cultivation activities. Maintain Raiser’s Edge records for all prospects and donors with meeting notes and actions. Lead the reporting process for current grants as needed.

Golden Valley

Collaborate with Development, Finance and Communications teams to execute annual development plan through database administration, gift attribution, and donor acknowledgment and cultivation.Coordinate small donations (tribute) program with $100,000 annual fundraising goal, by processing fund-specified gifts and producing requested tribute cards for members and staff, connecting donors to each other and supporting community ties and organizational programs. Answer incoming inquiries into Development about giving history, ways to donate and other donor-related issues, routing to other staff members when appropriate.Document Raiser's Edge (RE) best practices and train new and existing Development staff when needed.Design and run queries for Development and for other JFCS departments.Process all daily donations in RE, including all in-kind, pledges, cash, credit card and stock transactions. Acknowledge all gifts within two business days.Proofread and check Excel data for members’ honor/memorial information; provide final proofs to Communications for inclusion into triannual Directions newsletter.Act as assigned solicitor for donations to fundraising event; develop relationships leading to gifts.Manage donor-designated gifts process, including all payments by check, EFT, and employer matches. Maintain database of EFT portals, including records for current website links and login information.Provide gift entry and acknowledgment support for the annual JFCS fundraising event and for various programs (PJ Library, Hag Sameach, Caregivers and Mental Health Education Conferences).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Continued working for CMAA as a grant writing and general development consultant. For a more specific list of activities, please refer to the description in the CMAA job listing below.

St. Paul, Minnesota

Managed a portfolio of $375,000 income from events, corporate, individual, and family foundation supporters.Supervised and collaborated with Development Associate and Volunteer Coordinator to plan and manage events, recruit and train volunteers, enter financial information and facilitate acknowledgement process. Collaborated with Finance Director to reconcile donation and event income. Interviewed agency staff to accurately represent programs and progress toward goals for funders. Served as staff liaison to the Development Committee, preparing all reports to track progress towards goals in various income categories for bimonthly meetings. Collaborated with development consultants to provide agency information, edit and submit proposals. Wrote and submitted midterm and final reports to funders.Attended supervisor and staff meetings; prepared for and attended site visits with the Executive Director.Spearheaded May 2017 proposal submission (updating, editing and assembling attachments) to the Minnesota Department of Human Services (HSASMI). Grant was awarded in June 2017 ($478,500 over two years).

Lowell, Massachusetts

Researched and solicited corporations, foundations, and Lowell-based organizations for funding of general operations and specific programs; managing multiple donor relationships. Wrote and submitted grant proposals and LOIs to foundations, corporations and state of Massachusetts, compiling all necessary attachments in multiple formats and submitting through a large variety of online platforms or through U.S mail.Obtained 40% of fiscal 2016 year funding (from contributions and grants), most of which came from new funders or for never-funded programs.Spearheaded the first year-end online giving series, including interviewing key clients and creating success stories and specific asks.Creating and managing database for individual and institutional donors, tracking proposal and report due dates.Wrote board-approved strategic plan. Supervised and collaborated with interns and volunteers on development processes and materials.Compiled and collected items for common grant attachments folder.Scheduled donor acknowledgment process and created archive of submitted proposals.Assist in planning and implementation of fundraising events, including collection of donor and program data.Created organization's Giving Common profile and updated organization's Guidestar information.

Minneapolis

Deadline-driven research and logistics for staff and clients in Minneapolis and 14 other national and international branches.Created and implemented staff mentoring modules; managed departmental workflow on rotating basis with rest of team.Filed documents to district and state courts, tracked shipments, distributed incoming materials, and performed many other time-sensitive duties as needed.Served affidavits on individuals and companies, and provided reception services on a rotating basis.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

Worked under the direction of head and assistant head judges to ensure timely access to voting for eligible members of the precinct. Set equipment up for elections, greeted voters, directed voters to correct precincts if not eligible to vote at location, registered eligible voters on election day.Checked voter eligibility on lists, affirmed oaths of voters, distributed and counted ballots, resolved discrepancies, cleaned up after elections and brought equipment and ballots to be counted to City of Minneapolis facilities.

Minneapolis, Minnesota

Wrote articles and created other content for 2003 Twin Cities Pride Guide, the official publication of the Twin Cities Pride Festival. Published articles included humorous tributes to the Pride Guide staff, items on Pride events in nearby cities, and an interview with Gilbert Baker, the creator of the rainbow flag, on the flag's 25th anniversary, its origins and significance to the LGBTQIA community.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Psychology, With Minor In English Literature

High School Diploma