Andrew Parrish Email & Phone Number

Chapel Hill, Nc

• Identify, cultivate, solicit and steward prospects at the major gift level• Oversee Ackland's 40 person Local Advisory Board (LAB) managing its membership and engagement • Assist with the development of a strategic comprehensive development plan for private support through planned gifts, major gifts, leadership annual giving, grants and corporate gifts• Engage and motivate donors, volunteers, faculty and administrators at events and activities• Help expand the Ackland's individual and corporate membership/annual fund programs focusing on Director's Circle memberships at the $1,000 - $10,000 level• Assist with planning and implementing of fundraising and stewardship events, particularly as they relate to major gift prospects, board members and donors• Foster collaborative pan-university development efforts between the Ackland and other departments at Carolina

Chapel Hill, Nc

• Identify, cultivate, solicit and steward prospects at the major gift level• Built a portfolio from scratch to comprise 85 major gift prospects in the pipeline in 3 years• Closed more than $2.6 million in gifts, including six-and-seven figure gifts, consistently exceeding annual fiscal year goals for qualifications, proposals and commitments and among top 10 fundraisers on campus in securing meetings• Oversaw Ackland's Local Advisory Board through growing its membership, capacity and diversity. Increased board size 60% (15 new members) focusing on geographic, racial and age diversity.• Assisted with the development of a strategic comprehensive development plan for private support through planned gifts, major gifts, leadership annual giving, grants and corporate gifts• Helped brand, manage and expand the Ackland's individual and corporate membership/annual fund programs• Assisted with planning and implementing of fundraising and stewardship events, particularly as they related to major gift prospects, board members and donors• Fostered collaborative pan-university development efforts between the Ackland and other departments at Carolina by making Ackland available and more visible to development officers in other units significantly increasing the number of joint giving plans with Ackland and other units• Contributed towards unit goal for the university campaign "The Campaign for Carolina" helping raise $112 million to date (7.5x the amount Ackland raised in the previous campaign and the greatest fundraising increase of the 30 units on campus from the past campaign to this current campaign)

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Developed a new recruitment funnel that qualified, cultivated and solicited 101 NC prospects that beat goal by 4% and increased yield by 15% over the previous 3-year average. Currently lead this office-wide initiative.• Work closely with our development office to help with donor relations and assisted with developing proposals for endowed scholarships• Travel and recruit prospective students from various territories across US, read full complement of 1,500 first-year applications and serve as voting member of committee • Led yield team of two assistant directors from 2012-2016 that developed and executed yield strategy, consulted on enrollment communications, devised differential recruitment approaches and planned recruitment events• Oversaw a new enrollment communications plan in 2013-2014 that helped contribute to a 7% increase in yield of African-American students and a 16% increase in Hispanic students • Increased enrollment by 3% while leading Excel@Carolina - a cross-campus collaborative recruitment program with various departments that matches select top admits with unique campus opportunities • Led recruitment enhancements such as: o Liaised with Scholarships and Student Aid Office and increased scholarship enrollment by 16% o Enhanced attendance (39 to 150) and increased yield from First Generation College events by 12% o Increased enrollment by 7% at admitted student day while decreasing resources allocated by 58%• Oversee part-time and readmissions student application processes and led transition to Slate for these areas• Lead training team in building an office culture to exhibit a growth mindset

Chapel Hill, North Carolina

• Helped more than double the number of visitors to UNC between '07 and '12 to 60,000 visitors • Built strategic partnerships with offices across campus (such as UNC Visitors’ Center – consulted with center and contributed to increasing tour visitors 243% (from 1,610 to 5,529 in four years)• Increased applications by 6.1% & yield by 5.1% as Asheville territory manager between '06-'09• Served as voting member of admissions committee for first-year and transfer applicants• Strategically overhauled 140 member Admissions Ambassador Program: o Increased Ambassador applications by 232% (from 120 to 398) over five-year period o Increased exposure from 2 Daily Tar Heel (DTH) newspaper mentions in previous nine years to 12 DTH mentions in three years o Increased Morehead-Cain Scholars from two between '06-'08 to 25 between '09-'11 o 20% increase in ethnic minority diversity over five years (from 26% to 46%)

Knoxville, Tennessee

• Increased number of applicants by 49% at 43 assigned in-state high schools• Assisted with revision efforts on recruitment literature that won 2nd place nationally • Created innovative “Points of Pride” flip book to educate staff and prospective students on the university’s biggest selling points• Delivered innovative information sessions and assisted with yield-event programming • Selected as one of ten facilitators for 2004 & 2005 University IGNITE Student Leadership Summits

Masters In Communication, Concentration In Public Relations, Summa Cum Laude

Bachelor Of Arts Degree, Communication Studies With A Minor In Journalism, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa, Orientation Leader, UT Ambassador, Dance Marathon, Team VOLS

Education record

Education record