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Washington DC-Baltimore Area

• Fund Development Strategy / Philanthropic Partnership Building / Grants Management & AdministrationAssessed, developed, and executed fundraising strategy for a start-up non-profit focused on federal bipartisan policy.
• Managed all aspects of philanthropic partnerships, including prospecting, qualification, cultivation, proposal development, and stewardship/impact reporting.
• Oversaw fund diversification project, working with 2 consultants over 9 months to conduct a situational analysis, explore feasibility of revenue models, develop a diversified fundraising plan, craft a compelling case.
• Personally managed a portfolio of ~10 high-giving institutional donors.
• Led the development of 13 proposals with a 69% success rate.
• Designed, organized, coordinated, and implemented two virtual Funder Briefings (Zoom-based meetings) co-hosted by 4 prominent U.S. foundations (William & Flora Hewlett, Heising-Simons, MacArthur, Mertz Gilmore) that.

Lincoln, MA

• Mass Audubon is New England’s largest nature conservation non-profit organization (Dec. 2021: annual operating budget of $37M; total assets of over $393M; 40,000+ acres protected; 125,000+ members and supporters).
• Orchestrated and oversaw institutional fundraising across a statewide network of 32 nature centers, units, and departments, including one museum and two farms.
• Supervised and led a team of grant writers, grant administrator, and office assistant.
• Co-developed annual grant-revenue goals for foundation and government sources (~$3M to $7M per fiscal year) and ensured goals were met.
• Personally managed a portfolio of ~50 institutional donors, formulating and implementing donor relations strategy and customized stewardship plans.
• Led the submission of an average of 2 applications per month with a success rate of >50% that generated >$1M per fiscal year.

Lincoln, MA

Served as lead grants team member on 206 grant applications, achieving a 70% rate of success that generated more than $2.2 million in grant awards from local, state, and federal institutional funders. Managed all phases of the grant lifecycle with ten program teams: · prospect research, · donor strategy, · institutional-funder relationship cultivation and.

Falmouth, ME

Responsible for the agency’s portfolio of more than $500,000 in grant awards; · led team to develop grant applications and cultivate funder relationships; · responsible for proposal writing and editing, application submission, grant tracking and reporting using Raiser’s Edge, and fund prospecting; · collaborated with principal investigators on project.

Damariscotta, ME

More than doubled membership (478 to 1,089) and annual operating budget ($62K to $147K); · significantly increased acres of protected land (473 to 906); · wrote grant applications and administered 52 grant awards; · established organizational policies and procedures; · worked with a 14-member Board of Directors; · inspired and helped coordinate hundreds of.

Starkville, MS

· Led implementation of a new 4-year undergraduate degree program in Conservation Law Enforcement, one of only four in the U.S. Curriculum planning and development.· Designed and taught three courses: two upper-level courses (one focused on marketing, communications, leadership, and behavior change, and one focused on policy, law enforcement, and agency.

Master'S Degree And Doctorate Degree, Human Dimensions Of Wildlife Conservation

Ph.D. in Human Dimensions of Wildlife Conservation, focusing on human tolerance of wildlife..

Bachelor’S Degree, Wildlife Management, Summa Cum Laude

B.S. Wildlife Management

Associate Of Applied Science, Recreation And Wildlife