Bradley A. Porter Email & Phone Number

Topeka, Ks, Us

As an advancement communications specialist, I have often freelanced or contracted for a variety of higher education institutions, health care, and non-profit clients, including full-time from 2018-20. This has typically included proposals, stewardship reports, feature articles, campaign marketing, fundraising collateral, and executive communications. Clients have included: The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society (as contracted Director of Funding Opportunities, 2019), Jefferson Health (Thomas Jefferson University Hospitals), Main Line Health, Brigham and Women's Hospital, the University of Chicago, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, The University of Pittsburgh, Texas Woman's University, Lorraine’s House, Topeka Youth Project, and more.Outside of my regular field, I have also occasionally written or contributed to magazines, blogs, national websites, etc., on mostly current affairs and civics topics, with placements that have included Forbes, Newsweek, Huffingtonpost, Medical Daily, The Atlantic, The Guardian, and more.

Bennington, Vermont

Overseeing a three-person team, as part of the Vice President of Advancement’s senior staff, coordinated, managed, and optimized all stewardship communications/reporting and advancement marketing for Bennington College, with emphasis on:• Scholarship, endowed fund, and faculty fund reporting;• Corporation and foundation grant reporting;• Gift acknowledgments and donor thank yous at all levels;• Fundraising collateral and advancement marketing.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

For Temple Health (Temple University Health System and School of Medicine), a $1.4 billion academic medical center, strategized, implemented, and managed all communications and marketing relating to fundraising or constituent engagement for the system’s education, research and clinical enterprises, especially:• Strategic messaging, leadership and executive communications, campaign communications, and marketing of top institutional priorities;• Solicitation and stewardship communications, including proposals, stewardship reports, donor newsletters, giving websites, acknowledgements, etc.;• Helped strategize and oversee all annual fund communications, grateful patient communications, department-level communications, and event communications.

Philadelphia, Pa

For Temple University, overseeing a three person team, managed the university's development communications, including donor relations and stewardship reporting; campaign, annual fund and major gift communications; publications and advancement marketing; acknowledgments; and executive communications and speechwriting.

Philadelphia, Pa

For Penn Medicine (the Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System, and Abramson Cancer Center), responsible for major gift proposals and communications, stewardship communications (stewardship reports, major gift acknowledgments etc.), and executive communications.

Pittsburgh, Pa

Beginning first as a freelancer then student worker/extern before transitioning to fulltime staff, worked on development, campaign, and alumni communications and then as Donor Relations Associate.

Carnegie Mellon University

For Robert Cavalier, Director, Teaching Professor Emeritus of Philosophy.

Carnegie Mellon University

For Anna Fisher, Associate Professor of Psychology.