Christopher Schram Email & Phone Number

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.
• 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.

Education record

Bs & Ba, Bus. Admin. & French

Activities and Societies: Omicron Delta Kappa (ODK)