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Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States

Kalamazoo, Michigan Area

Duties, Responsibilities, & Activities:• Managed a $2M annual contributed revenue campaign (individual, institutional, special event giving).• Led the Marketing Department and Marketing Manager in all aspects of branding, external communications, and marketing (including website, email, print, and social media).• Supervised two full-time and three part-time advancement employees.• Served as Major Gifts Officer working in partnership with the Executive Director and the Board of Trustees.• Wrote all institutional grant requests in the absence of a part-time grant writer.• Maintained relationships with 100 major donors & prospects and 50 corporate/foundation representatives.• Serve as a member of the seven-person Senior Team.• Partnered with the Board’s Advancement Committee that included board members and community volunteers.• Assumed role as Staff Liaison to the Kalamazoo Art League Board of Directors.

Chicago, Il

Chicago's Tony Award-winning theater dedicated to presenting new work.Duties, Responsibilities, & Activities:• Manage a $1.5M annual contributed revenue campaign (individual, institutional, special event giving).• Serve as primary staff liaison to 22-member Board of Directors.• Conducted recruitment of new board members and managed their orientation and on-boarding process.• Supervise three development employees.• Serve as Major Gifts Officer working in partnership with the Managing Director and the Board of Trustees.• Maintain relationships with 75 major donors/prospects and 45 corporate/foundation representatives.• Serve as a member of the three-person Senior Team.

University Of Chicago

Duties, Responsibilities, & Activities:• Managed all aspects of a $1.5M annual contributed revenue campaign (individual, institutional, special event giving).• Supervised three development employees.• Served as Major Gifts Officer working in partnership with the Executive Director and the Board of Trustees.• Served as staff liaison to the Alumni Relations and Development Department of The University of Chicago.• Maintained relationships with 40 Producers Circle members & prospects and 20 corporate/foundation representatives.• Served as a member of the six-person Senior Team.

Greater Chicago Area

Duties, Responsibilities, & Activities:• Managed all aspects of a $3.5M annual contributed revenue campaign (individual, institutional, special event giving).• Supervised four development employees and two communications employees.• Served as Major Gifts Officer working in partnership with the CEO and the Board of Directors.• Served as staff liaison to the Development Committee of the Board of Directors.• Directed all aspects of marketing, communications and public relations.• Maintained relationships with 500 Director’s Circle members & prospects and 50 corporate/foundation representatives.• Served as a member of the five-person Senior Team to support the work of the CEO.Accomplishments• Increased Human First gala gross revenue by $100,000 (30%) and attendance by 500 (50%).• Recruited 200 new individual gifts and 75 increased individual gifts.• Managed the recruitment of 20 new and 6 increased corporate/foundation/government grants of $400K.• Implemented specific development engagement plans for each member of the Board and Dev Committee.

Chicago, Il

Chicago, Il

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

The Shannon Leadership Institute provided an opportunity to travel to Minneapolis/St Paul for four quarterly weekends consisting of intense collaboration with twenty other non-profit professionals from around the country. We spent the year clarifying the purpose of our work and our core values, enhancing our focus and effectiveness. We came away with renewed commitments to community service and strengthened leadership skills.

Miami, Fl

Vice President (June,' 04 – June, '07)-Liaison to Development,Programs,Marketing, and Magazine board committees; support to Long-Range Planning, Trustees, Investment, Finance, and Alumni Awards committees.Media spokesperson for print, radio, television, and internet.Programs Officer (Feb,'02–June,'04)-Managed the Arts Recognition and Talent Search (ARTS) Program (8,000+ annual applicants).Produced two consecutive years of 5% increases in the number of applications after a five-year decline.Produced a 12% increase in applications from '06 to '07;(largest increase in over a decade.)Served as direct liaison with the Presidential Scholars Program at the U.S. Department of Education.Produced the annual showcase performance at the John F. Kennedy Center featuring the Presidential Scholars.• Communicated semi-annually w/19K schools & 25K educators nationwide.• Managed alliances w/ 25 national,regional & local orgs.• Hired 100 judges,master teachers,accompanists,& coordinators for annual ARTS Week.• Represented program at ten national arts educator conferences annually. • Wrote all programmatic content for website.• Prepared and managed a Programs Department budget of more than $1,500,000.Development Officer(July,'97–June,'03)-Directed an annual fund drive of $1.7 million each year. Wrote the first grant to be funded by the National Endowment for the Arts in ten years.Wrote the first grant in NFAA’s history to be funded by the State of Florida Division of Cultural Affairs.Increased grant awards from the Miami-Dade County Department of Cultural Affairs by 150%.Produced all aspects of an annual 800+ person gala with a record-breaking $800,000 gross.Communications Department (as Programs Officer and Vice President)(June,'03–June,'07)-Served as liaison to NFAA’s PR agencies and supervised the Communications/Public Relations/Marketing Department.Created 75% of the content for youngARTS, three annual, 48-page magazines about NFAA and the ARTS program.

Education record

Bs & Ba, Bus. Admin. & French

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK)