Beth Wagner Email & Phone Number

Minneapolis, Mn

-Coordinate and manage volunteers crews to prepare and serve weekly meal for up to 150 guests.-Oversee kitchen inventory; coordinate bulk orders, weekly purchases and donations.-Support community meal guests with resource referrals and grief support. -Designed and implemented fundraising strategy that raised $50,000 from individual giving in one quarter - up from $5,000 from individual giving in the same amount of time the year prior.-Launch the membership giving program, write grants and run crowdfunding campaigns.-Develop organization’s administration, operations and staff management systems.-Manage social media accounts and communications with all major partners and stakeholders.-Lead core volunteers and advisory board in strategic planning process. -Organize and promote fundraisers, workshops, open garden nights and other special events.

Minneapolis, Mn

-Designed Food For Thought after school food justice & cooking program for 6-9th graders. -Facilitated program with a democratic, experiential learning style.-Encouraged and supported students with Individualized Education Programs.

Minneapolis, Mn

-Support small landscaping company with installation and maintenance of custom design projects.-Restore and strengthen local landscapes by increasing biodiversity, planting native, edible and pollinator friendly plant material, mitigating erosion and runoff, using natural and recycled materials, avoiding toxic pesticides, chemicals & fertilizers and soil compacting machinery, purchasing from local growers.

Minneapolis, Mn

-Design position descriptions, then recruit, interview, and place ~900 volunteers annually-Recruit and organize 600+ volunteers per year for Open Streets & Minneapolis Bike Week-Manage up to 150 volunteers on each event day -Create volunteerism program policies, standardize management and administration practices-Manage volunteer communications, newsletters, and surveys -Oversee interns and lead multiple year-round volunteer committees -Organize appreciation events, skillshare trainings, community-building rides and gatherings

Minneapolis, Mn

-Designed and implemented a food justice curriculum for the Youth Culinary Arts Program and an environmental sustainability curriculum for the Phillips Environmental Action Project -Met one on one with teens to help secure housing and advance college and career goals

-Orchestrated all catering orders; managed all admin & communications for catering service

-Recruited, trained, and placed 250 volunteers annually in the community kitchen, food shelf, youth and adult programs. -Managed volunteer hours and acted as a community liaison for restorative justice volunteers

Minneapolis, Mn

- Created and organized projects for student staff peer advisers; provided guidance and training- Managed program databases and over 650 student files

- Matched student volunteers according to their interests with over three hundred partner NGOs - Led information sessions and workshops for the Community Engagement Scholars Program; recruited & guided students through the program, and helped to develop the curriculum.

Minneapolis, Mn

- Handled the phones, checked books in and out, assisted patrons with fines and library policies, retrieved reserved books and acted as first contact to patrons entering the library- Assisted patrons in identifying relevant research materials in the library, locating library materials, and using online catalogs including the University's online system and the WorldCat catalog