Austin Fitzgerald Email and Phone Number

Utilize Canva platform to generate social media graphics on relevant topics ▪ Drafted 2 comprehensive articles on a specific mindset with real life examples ▪ Generate/manage social media content calendar and postings 3x week (28 total) ▪ Write, edit, and manage content for: Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram

This VISTA position is a part of Catholic Charities USA's Family Strengthening Program, a nationalintermediary project. As a member, you will meet virtually with VISTA Leaders/other VISTAs serving throughout the country, on curbing poverty. The Communications Assistant-VISTA will grow therecognition of CC and our services in the community, helping increase awareness among theclients/donors through similar but not the same means. This project focuses specifically oncommunication strategies initiating new strategies to reach a broader audience of clients/donors. Increased recognition leads to an increase in donor engagement/more funding for under-served poor. An increase in recognition increases the clients who will take advantage of assistance we can offer. By doing so, these clients will have opportunities to help lift them from the poverty levels they are in and chances for long-term improvements in their livelihoods/housing/family-life etc.My major duties and accomplishments included: Several social media campaigns, many interviews throughout our agency, which I turned into blog posts to raise awareness of what services we provide. Istarted collecting analytics from Facebook, Instagram, and created Excel graphs from our How Did you Hear About Us reports, monthly. This was a new endeavor and has been helpful. I helped with a few Direct Mail Merges to raise awareness within parishes in our diocese. I also handled our Parish Bulletin Announcements, creating a weekly item to highlight for the parish bulletin and emailed them out monthly. I created a Gala video after the event and created a video campaign for the Veteran Appeal. I sent out eBlasts and contributed to our newsletters by writing articles. I also gathered price quotes for several projects from employee gifts to newspaper ads.

- Research: Conduct research on any number of topics and provide thorough information on timely basis.- Marketing: Assist with marketing opportunities for 360 Sports clients and/or creating campaigns to market PMP.- Social Media: Generate new ideas or campaigns for promoting PMP leveraging the various social media platforms to reach new potential listeners and for promoting 360 Sports and their clients. Create posts that communicate specific messages for specific platforms that drive people to listen or watch PMP and increase awareness and brand credibility for 360 Sports.- Blogs: Draft, post and promote blog posts about each PMP.- Guests: Assist with identifying podcast guests for PMP.- Publicity: Assist with pitching and securing publicity opportunities for PMP & 360 Sports clients.- Website: Assist with updating and enhancing content on 360 Sports and PMP websites.- Presentations: Assist with preparing presentations for meetings.▪ Conducted research on feature sports topics; present research results to management team▪ Assist with marketing initiatives for clients; create campaigns to organization’s service▪ Generate ideas for marketing campaigns leveraging social media platforms to reach listeners(optimizing video “tags” and descriptions for each podcast on YouTube▪ Increased listener audience and viewership from 81 to 105 views on one episode from May 3rd to June 3rd) ▪ Wrote, posted, and promoted blog posts; regularly updated website

My name is Austin Fitzgerald and I am a 23 year old graduate from the University of Kansas. In this podcast series I will be "Going Deep" on anything regarding sports, religion, politics, and news.

Called 1 KU men’s basketball game in November 2019 and 4 women’s basketball games 2017-18. I was the studio host for the KU K state football game in the fall of 2019 and was part of studio crew for countless other games including the KU-Villanova Final Four game in 2018.