Ariana Burrows Email & Phone Number

• Formulated, with board development committee, annual fund-raising plans, including annual giving, special events, capital improvements, focused campaigns and grant programs.• Ran estate planning seminars; crafted gift acceptance policy; administrated donor-restricted funds.• Implemented board calling project: For donors personally called (no ask), average gift increase from first year to second was 41.5%, and average gift increase from second year to third was 44%.• Broadened and increased individual donor base 4.8 times, by engaging special event attendees and participants in extensive holiday gift programs and through personally signed appeals by board members.• Increased number of donors making gifts of $1,000 or more by 8.5 times; annual giving increased 176%. • Set parameters for agency needs in Blackbaud software, The Raiser’s Edge; knowledge of Microsoft Office Programs, including Excel. • Expanded foundation, corporate and alumni relations; prepared local, state and national government proposals; incorporated and reported on outcome measures in grant-funded projects.• Clarified logo for branding; media liaison; speakers’ bureau; public relations materials, and newsletter and website/social media content.• Maintained concurrent annual giving program for merging agency until its social services ended; engaged relationships with that agency's individual donors, supporting foundations and interested trust officers, and retained their gifts for similar Tabor programs.• Prepared United Way proposals and reports; executive representative at quarterly nonprofit meetings.• Produced centennial celebration, including awards, dinners and publication of a book, ‘Twas A Hard Knock Life: The Tabor Home Story.

Ambler, Pa

• Daily financial and program operations• Media liaison• Grant writer and administrator

Buffalo, Ny

• Hosted weekly half-hour television arts magazine: Artscene.• Conducted pre-interviews and on-air interviews for radio and television with guests, and wrote own radio and television continuity.• Participated in on-air public radio and television fund-raising/membership drives.• Programmed classical music and fine arts programs on radio.• Created public service announcements from media releases.• Operated radio broadcasting equipment including transmitter.

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Magna Cum Laude, With Honors In English

Activities and Societies: Phi Beta Kappa

Master Of Arts (M.A.), English Literature

Activities and Societies: Woodrow Wilson Fellow, University of Illinois Fellow, Graduate Teaching Assistant