Chelsea Allinger Email and Phone Number

Senior manager at national community development nonprofit. Supported and shaped program design and implementation, including a national conference and other initiatives. Led development of first organization-wide performance metrics and reporting processes. Managed two staff and multiple consultants. Managed media relations; branding and marketing; editing and publications (including editor of four books); website and social. Oversaw corporate, government, and foundation relations, grant proposals, and reporting to support $3.5 million budget; raised $250,000+ in sponsorships toward national conference.

Directly raised $2.5 million in grants and individual giving over two years toward an $8M annual operating budget. Work involved foundation, corporate, and government grant-writing, individual giving, special events, and managing a range of communications functions, as part of a small development team at a multiservice community development corporation.

Helped develop and execute policy workshops for Governors, their cabinets, and senior state officials related to transportation, economic development, housing, and other growth- and sustainability-related policy challenges.

Worked on youth development, focusing on an entrepreneurship education camp and a drug-free communities coalition. Position was part of the pilot Rochester Youth Year (RYY) cohort, now an AmeriCorps VISTA initiative. RYY participation also included the Leadership Rochester Urban Fellows Program (2007), building leadership capacity in students and recent graduates to help strengthen cities.