Diane Carpenter Email & Phone Number

Richmond, VA, US

Richmond, Virginia Area

Author and manage foundation, corporate, county and Federal grant requests and reports; direct stewardship if needed; prospect new opportunities. Develop strategies for foundation and corporate support. Collaborated with ED and drafted a proposal and site visit presentation for a project that became one of five finalists for 2017 Impact100. Write and.

Richmond, VA

• Accomplished successful 12-day $40,000 urgent campaign in August 2016.
• Refined strategic development plan; spearheaded strategies to expand donor base.
• Developed fundraising tracking, reporting and projecting system by producing a series of linked spreadsheets.
• Authored new approach to grant requests, letters of inquiry, appeal letters. Developed template requests.

Richmond, VA

• Spearheaded a well-coordinated, strategic development plan to cultivate, steward and solicit support. Included foundations, corporations and individuals.
• Authored philanthropy communications including grant requests, quarterly newsletter, fundraising collateral, final reports, appeal letters, web pages and the Annual Report.
• Improved grant tracking, reporting and projecting by overhauling insufficient existing system.
• Collaborated to raise $1.4M, a 40% increase. Wrote 53 grants requesting $1.1M in one year. Raised over $500K in grants in first year.

Mclean, VA

• Met deadlines and budgets through well-managed internal communications projects.
• Editor of a 3x/week digital newsletter distributed to 1300 employees: - Increased efficiency by automating production and submission processes. - Increased readership and value by pursuing new channels in response to.
• Managed leadership engagement events with 93% attendant satisfaction rate.
• Overhauled the largest division event to drastically increase employee engagement and traffic flow.

Reston, VA

• Met deadlines and budgets through well-managed internal communications projects.
• Editor of a 3x/week digital newsletter distributed to 1300 employees:- Increased efficiency by automating production and submission processes. - Increased readership and value by pursuing new channels in response to.
• Managed leadership engagement events with 93% attendant satisfaction rate.
• Overhauled the largest division event to drastically increase employee engagement and traffic flow.

Northern Virginia

• Major Clients: Reston Hospital Center, Mobil Oil, Prof. Engineering Review Courses, Chantilly Youth Association
• Led successful consulting business for over 20 years. Taught entrepreneurship for four years.
• Pursued new and retained existing clients.
• Solely responsible for business from marketing and sales to accounting and taxes.

Designed and taught a series of business classes that guided entrepreneurs through basic business development, from branding to marketing materials to taxes and accounting. Also taught software.