Successfully won funding and implemented a law enforcement and community safety project funded by the Department of Homeland Security, preventing extremist violence in the United States. Recognized as the only community prevention project showcased at the National Center for Counter Terrorism Best Practices National Conference 2019.After securing funding, led the implementation of democracy strengthening projects in Nigeria, collaborating with Irish Aid, Robert Bosch Foundation, and KAICIID Dialogue Centre to prevent election violence and promote community peacebuilding.Facilitated the Foundation's two-year cross-community engagement project in Jersey City, New Jersey, promoting unity across cultural, ethnic, racial, and socio-economic divides through community mapping, stakeholder workshops, and events.Provided project management, grants administration, and donor relationship management for various projects including international efforts to prevent and counter terrorism or financing terrorism as funded by multilateral and donor governments.Acted as an on-stage MC for galas, shows, expert panel discussions, corporate briefings, and other public speaking engagements including webinars and video productions.Served as the International Director of Organizational Development for an international grantmaking organization, overseeing resource mobilization and capacity building for field/project implementations and evaluations while maintaining compliance with audit and donor requirements.Founded and served as President of Peace and Security Partners, Inc., a women-led nonprofit start-up organization focused on peacebuilding.

Sample Clients: Dallas Area Rapid Transit, Dyson Foundation , McKnight Foundation, United Community Ministries Developed thorough fundraising feasibility study and recommendations reports including analysis of philanthropic landscape, work portfolio “fundability” and new fundraising strategy.Conducted Wealth Engine modeling of donor base, analysis of results, and design of a major gift donor re-engagement plan.Created content and facilitated senior staff and Board knowledge-building workshops and learning / planning sessions to strengthen organizational fundraising capacity, including topic areas like fundraising 101, constituent engagement and communications.Provided ongoing staff coaching to Executive Directors and junior staff for strategy implementation, as well as coaching for Finance teams on revenue forecasting.Presented ongoing findings, organizational development recommendations, and strategy to Board of Directors, focusing on work portfolio recalibrations and fundraising capacity building investments.Conducted successful recruitment project for development staff then provided mentoring and coaching during on-boarding and strategy implementation.Developed, rated and cultivated prospect piplelines and engaged prospective donors in U.S. and in-country with international Chapter leaders, including foundations, government, major gift, and corporate donors.Assessed 'back office' operations for grantmakers to upgrade financial accounting system to sync specific datasets and workflows with grants management tools (Salesforce and others), 3rd party apps, and other infrastructure systems.

After merger of Save Darfur Coalition and Genocide Intervention Network, led outreach to all legacy major gift and foundation donors to message the merger, expanded work portfolio and introduce the new organization.Led the data conversion project, combining 1.2MM legacy data records from a variety of databases into one, new and combined database – Convio Luminate / salesforce.Conducted analysis and restructuring of all fundraising operations including direct mail, store, gift processing and acknowledgments – bringing most activities in-house, recruiting and training new staff, streamlining with Finance operations, and saving hundreds of thousands of dollars.Provided strategy and messaging for digital communications received by an active email list of over 750,000 individuals as part of a small in-house team.Secured the new organization’s first significant multi-year foundation gift.Created an endowment fund and secured the first lead gift.Developed all foundation proposals and reports, as well as donor collateral like fact sheets, cultivation materials and annual report. Managed consultants for various products.Led Board of Directors Development Committee and provided projections, forecasts and analysis of revenue on an ongoing basis -- providing the same analysis and recommendations to Executive Leadership.Represented the work at philanthropic and human rights convenings and pitched issue panels.

Built the Development department including recruiting and coaching team, building databases, prospect pipelines, day-to-day operations and a Development Department Manual. Co-authored a how-to fundraising guide for women’s NGOs in the global south, then distributed to women’s organizations.Launched first event fundraiser to mark 10-Year Anniversary with a net profit of $70,000.Served on Senior Leadership team and co-led on organizational projects including technology, strategic planning, and operations.Recruited and on-boarded Director of Finance, and also assumed this position as needed, including redesign of systems and processes for revenue projections, allocations and project management.Grew organizational budget during an economic recession, while gaining new donors including the largest multi-year foundation grant and first-time corporate partners.Worked with President and senior team to collaboratively raise approximately $2MM for new Global Partnerships international development program, traveled internationally to meet with women’s cooperatives and partners, and represented work at global food security and women’s empowerment convenings focusing on Latin America and Africa.