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• Contribute to nonprofit fundraising and communications strategy development and build streamlined reports for complex projects.
• Drive the development of creative and engaging nonprofit messaging and donor materials for major fundraising campaigns and annual appeals.
• Lead nonprofit client presentations, workshops, and meetings, providing consistent counsel, responding to queries, and addressing challenges in close collaboration with colleagues across the firm.

Work with local and global organizations to develop plans and messages that inspire stakeholders and achieve key objectives. Services include strategy development and content writing for philanthropy, marketing and communications initiatives. Clients include nonprofit organizations, city governments and socially responsible companies.

• Developed and managed the production of content to engage and steward corporate, individual and institutional donors, including the annual report, quarterly impact reports, one pagers and the case for support.
• Identified, wrote and delivered timely, relevant content for donors and partners on a wide range of topics, including organizational initiatives, national news stories and engagement opportunities.
• Wrote and edited for communication department, including crafting blog posts, client stories, articles and executive talking points.

Greater Chicago Area

• Provided ongoing communication, digital and stewardship support to the corporate partnerships team to help develop winning partnerships and provide valuable donor recognition opportunities.
• Served as day-to-day relationship manager for selected corporate partners through seeking to grow their collaboration with Feeding America across cause marketing, philanthropic giving and employee engagement.
• Wrote and edited quarterly donor impact reports, fundraising collateral, grant proposals and reports, pitch decks and other key donor communications.
• Acted as primary project manager for the Annual Partner Summit, an exclusive event for corporate partners.

Greater Chicago Area

• Conducted market research and planning in seven African countries to develop grant proposals for expansion of microfinance institutions, resulting in more than $20 million in grants in 2013.
• Crafted donor communications on innovations in financial services, mobile phone-based banking, tablet-based data-capturing systems and banking analytics in emerging markets.
• Served on cross-functional teams to develop creative copy for annual reports, presentations, marketing brochures, websites, blog posts, press releases, research summaries, video scripts and speaker talking points.

• Wrote progress reports for two major grant-funded projects totaling $2.5 million and $7 million, respectively.
• Authored blog posts on best-selling global development books and banking trends in Africa.
• Interviewed leading non-profit executives regarding organizational structure and governance.
• Researched giving potential of affluent families and major corporations and foundations.

• Developed Salesforce.com business database of makers and sellers of artisan handicrafts.
• Compiled profiles of international economic development organizations for business prospecting.
• Supported development of training materials to educate low-income artisans on marketing to US consumers.