Darlene Schneider Email & Phone Number

Dallas

I plan and implement a cohesive marketing plan for a startup nonprofit while also working with groups to plan and execute top level creative meetings.SPARK! provides children from second grade to high school with a fully immersive creative environment and hands-on learning that develops their self-definition as creative individuals. Strategically located in the sub-basement of the historic South Side on Lamar building near a large population of low-income families, SPARK! provides a fully immersive learning environment, layering a myriad of creative disciplines to spark the imagination, expand the mind, and engage the body. Through an endless roster of workshops and pop-up activities, students exercise their creativity and learn from creative experts, innovators, and artists.

Serve as Secretary for Friends of the Prichard Gallery, the board that oversees the galleryAttend monthly board meetings and a majority of art openings

Serve on a 12-member board of directors charged with establishing strategic vision and ensuring the success of a nonprofit theaterDesigned and launched marketing collateral for the theater’s 2010 fundraising gala, driving $8,000 in additional revenueVoted vice-president to evaluate fundraising campaigns and expenses

• Directed all marketing and promotion initiatives for a 26-store shopping complex, • Researched and purchased all local market media: print, billboards, radio and television.• Drove social media strategy to extend the reach of the brand, tapping into a new audience of more than 2,000

Wrote in-depth articles on local and national businesses in Eastern Washington region, publishing an average of 20 stories per monthTranslated complex topics into engaging content for the general public readershipDeveloped a system to make background research more accessible