Amy Collard Email & Phone Number

St. Louis, Mo, Us

• Advances organizational fundraising priorities by serving as key operations strategist on senior leadership. Analyzes trends and patterns to provide data-driven insight and inform decision making. • Responsible for strategic leadership, management and best practices of centralized fundraising operations for the Midwest region by supervising research, identification, assessment, and moves management of prospect portfolios. • Oversees foundation’s annual fundraising performance by managing and reporting key performance indicators (KPIs).• Ensures impact of donated dollars by aligning regional priorities. Improves funding request procedure by standardizing submission and reimbursement process and creating approval structures.• Strengthens and maintains interdepartmental relationships with Region and System teams to enhance Foundation effectiveness. Serves a primary liaison to Finance, Tax, and Treasury departments to oversee budget management, revenue, expense, and audit reporting.

• Managed day-to-day operations of three-person development services team including workflow, oversight of gift processing, handled gift reconciliation, resolved issues, and strengthened donor profiles. Instituted process to comply with industry standard of donation acknowledgements within 48 hours; created tracking and reporting systems to ensure maintenance of detailed donation and donor records. • Expanded Blackbaud’s functionality for fundraisers by implementing web-based version of donor database. Sourced new technologies and system solutions to create and manage Grateful Patient program through Omatic and PowerBI.

Columbus, Georgia Area

• Improved fund allocation transparency by creating an assessment report to gauge impact on patient care.• Increased internal gift reporting reliability by instituting monthly reconciliation process with Finance Department.• Created detailed documentation of internal business processes and workflows related to appeals, mailings, events, and donations. Generated accurate and timely reports and mailing lists using advanced queries and data segmentation for marketing, event invitations, and campaign launches. • Strengthened data quality by identifying database problem areas such as missing or incomplete data, incorrect values, duplicate records, and took steps to correct issues.

Columbus, Georgia Area

Greater St. Louis Area

• Increased veteran Financial Advisor’s client base by 20% by identifying new sales opportunities through cross-selling, researching target markets and networking.• Managed daily operations through compiling sales materials, generating personal financial scenarios and conducting retirement planning analysis. • Cultivated relationships with high-net-worth clients, vendors and corporate staff through accurate and timely correspondence to satisfy all inquires, underwriting requirements and service requests.

Greater St. Louis Area

Raiser's Edge Specialist, part-time, grant funded

Greater St. Louis Area

• Increased number of direct mail donors by 7.5%, improved average donor gift by 15% and created giving society which resulted in 200% increase in major gift prospects.• Served as community liaison by presenting the organization’s mission to the area’s civic leaders, corporations and community groups. • Organized and supervised volunteer sign-up and activities for fundraising events. Worked closely with Volunteer Coordinator to engage, place and train volunteers in support roles. • Tripled new grant applications in 2011 and secured over $150,000 in grant funds in 24 months. • Enhanced planned giving program through creation of legacy society, identified 340 planned giving prospects through database analysis; implemented planned giving section of website by utilizing outside vendor and initiated planned giving mailings, cultivation program and recognition events.• Managed day-to-day operations of four person development office including work flow, oversight of gift processing, handled gift reconciliation, resolved issues and strengthened donor profiles. Instituted process to comply with industry standard of donation acknowledgements within 48 hours; created tracking and reporting systems to ensure maintenance of detailed donation and donor records. • Netted $1.2M annually through four fundraising events. Directed 10 additional fundraising programs.• Spearheaded rebranding of all internal and external materials including brochures, the chapter newsletter, invitations, direct mail pieces, and e-newsletters and overhaul of chapter website which resulted in doubling the volume of visitors, tripling page views, and increasing online donations by 30% and visitors by 150%.• Executed technology strategic plan by strengthening donor database technology and advised on cost effective use, purchasing and modification of software, including migration of website to Blackbaud’s NetCommunity GROW content management system and online fundraising tool, Sphere.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Continually exceeded annual giving goals by 12%, 6%, and 5% for the 2008, 2007 and 2006 school years respectively. • Improved school’s financial position by creating direct mail campaign which raised an additional $112,500 in 2008 and $153,620 in 2007. The campaign generated 149 (14%) new donors in 2008 and 121 (14%) new donors in 2007.• Successfully managed the public phase of a $10M capital campaign by overseeing day-to-day operations and creating a recognition program for major donors. Activities included managing the calling program and generating program solicitation documentation to over 6,000 constituents.• Established a structured major gifts program to advance the school’s financial long term goals. The program was formed by strategically identifying the school’s top 200 major gift prospects and creating a moves management system to track, cultivate, steward, and solicit prospective donors.• Directly supervised Advancement Database Administrator which included managing workflow, overseeing gift processing, handling gift reconciliation, issues and strengthening donor profiles.• Coordinated multiple volunteer committees.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Expanded the school’s alumnae/i reach by reconnecting with over 500 alumni. • Planned, implemented and oversaw all aspects of Alumnae Reunion Weekends including creation of invitations, managed logistics and vendors, collected responses, and assisted class representatives with their parties.• Maintained school alumni communications by writing alumni articles and news for quarterly alumni publication. Identified and interviewed with alumnae/i for article content.

Greater St. Louis Area

• Responsible for new member acquisition through use of direct mail, marketing pieces and promotional items. Capitalized on special event which generated 60 new memberships. • Organized and coordinated all event logistics for the museum’s gala which raised over $850,000. • Managed all aspects of Young Friends volunteer board, including coordinating event details, creating agendas and composing meeting minutes.

Worked with member companies with regard to networking and procurement opportunities.

Bachelor Of Arts, Liberal Arts With A Concentration In Studio Art

Activities and Societies: Alpha Chi Omega, Residential Life (RA, HR)

Education record