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• Recruit and manage marketing communications teams.
• Prepare business plans and annual reports.
• Create and support internal and external communications.
• Implement fundraising and networking strategies.

Managed Bethesda Green's education, outreach & marketing activities, focus on community building, and supported the design and implementation of working group projects.

• Coordinated and supervised communications, marketing, and public affairs activities, increasing media coverage by 20 percent.
• Produced first annual report, providing new fundraising opportunities from individual supporters and organizations.
• Advanced school choice movement in dozens of states.
• Increased charter school survey response rate with aggressive outreach strategy.

· Provided marketing and media relations support to Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, informing millions of people about patient safety issues.· Managed marketing of information video for agency’s Bioterrorism and Emergency Preparedness Research Program by developing hundreds of distribution channels with organizations representing emergency.

· Supervised $1.2 million contract with FDA, developing outreach materials and unique online help index of information. Improved regulatory compliance among medical facilities from 60 to 90 percent in two years.· Managed $2 million contract with NIST’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership, creating case studies, success stories, and online marketing tools.

· Led editorial and production staff in creating the widely respected, annual go-to source of information: The State of America’s Children.· Facilitated focus groups to inform editorial and graphic redesign of newsletter, increasing subscriptions by 25 percent and publications sales to over $1 million.

Copy editor and production coordinator for Mosaic, the bimonthly magazine reporting on NSF-supported scientific research.