Alexandra Bruster Email & Phone Number

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Dallas/Fort Worth Area

Wylie, Tx

• Served as the main liaison between production consultants, event committees, fundraising chairs, and donors. Worked directly with vendors, managed over 100 volunteers and staff at one time for fundraising events, and organized smaller pre/post event functions. • Performed various administrative tasks include answering phones, greeting visitors, training and supervising office volunteers, maintaining department’s supplies and equipment, and scheduling meetings for the department in Microsoft Outlook. • Generated reports and updated event budgets in Microsoft Excel, meeting agendas and follow-up notes in Microsoft Word, and various marketing materials in Microsoft Publisher.• Primary data manager for both Equest’s databases: DonorPro and Bloomerang; handled all data clean up and customizations.• Designed various reports in databases for thank-you note generation, special event mailings and donor retention rates.• Created and extensively edited articles in many marketing materials including Equest’s quarterly newsletter, The Equestrian, Equest’s online e-newsletter, The Equestrian Online, Annual Reports, Constant Contact, Board Reports, and fundraising collateral.• Created social media marketing strategy for the 2014 North Texas Giving Day Best Overall Marketing Campaign. Equest was a finalist out of 1,080 participating non-profits, and had a 33% increase in donations from 2013.

Wylie, Tx

• Designed event materials in Microsoft Word and Publisher, contacted event vendors for quotes, assisted in general event logistics and developed creative donor recognition strategies.• Managed Equest’s online fundraising and event registration programs: Greater Giving and First Giving.• Streamlined the process of donor recognition through Equest’s database, DonorPro, and implemented the effective tracking and customization of donor records in the database.