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Provide national cross-functional development support and lead on key national development priorities including major gifts, foundations, and secular funding• Implement regional development strategy to achieve at least 50% local funding in regional communities (currently Pittsburgh, Detroit, Chicago, and Cleveland)• Support storytelling efforts throughout the region, collaborating with local program staff and national strategy team to enhance local brand awareness• Create and execute an expansion-focused funding strategy for new markets and programs in the Midwest region

Greater Chicago Area

• Raised over $200,000 annually from a portfolio of individual and major gifts donors• Implemented a renewed stewardship program that resulted in a 15% increase in donorretention• Served as primary relationship manager to over 130 donors and foundations• Worked with board members, senior staff, donors, and volunteers on a strategic basis

Greater Chicago Area

•Design, market and manage 46th Ward senior health fair, back to school event, State ID day, yearly safety town hall and resource fair• Lead a public safety task force with CPD, Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, 46th Ward businesses and community groups to track and reduce local crime• Liaise with City Departments to best provide efficient constituent services to 46th Ward residents• Collaborate with local neighborhood groups and blocks clubs to identify new, and strengthenexisting, 46th Ward community goals and opportunities

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

•Oversaw in-state fundraising operation for Midwestern Senior United States Senator•Developed and executed a quarterly fundraising plan•Managed all aspects of in-state donor cultivation and maintenance including call-time, meetings and events•Generated and analyzed the monthly in-state budget•Formulated content for all social media accounts

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

•Organized 36 fundraising events for 13 state senators•Managed an online donor databse•Prospected and developed over 200 new contributors to the caucus

Indianapolis, Indiana Area

•Facilitated the purchasing and contracting activities of all state agencies under the OneIndiana savings program•Negotiated the purchasing and contract terms with vendors to develop a creative, cost effective solution for the State of Indiana WIC services

Mpp, Public Policy

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Sociology, Political Science