Eileen O'Reilly Email & Phone Number

Bridgeport, Ct

Consulted with a variety of Fairfield County education, cultural and faith-based non-profits, providing support for fundraising, publicity, event planning, new business and board development.-Secured publicity resulting in frequent, positive media coverage-Wrote grants, found interns and staff to grow organizations-Worked with executive directors to create marketing materials resulting in over $100,000 raised-Identified women leaders for board membership-Created a variety of events to raise money, visibility, and increase membership-Initiated partnerships between non-profits and commercial ventures to increase audiences and fundingGrant writing/partnership building/publicity/

Fairfield, Ct

FTC is a non-profit theatrical performance space, now presenting 300+ performances annually. I oversaw its transition from a debt-ridden non-profit to a thriving live music venue, selling over 50,000 tickets annually, with gross revenues over 2 million.• New Program Development: Initiated Martini And A Movie film series and FTC Saturday Kids, a partnership with KEYS providing instrument instruction to underserved Bridgeport students. • Board Member Engagement: Motivated board members to support the organization’s education component. Communicated a larger vision and reinvigorated the enthusiasm and support of board members for FTC Sat Kids. • Marketing and Branding: Built a strong brand in the community and adapted programming to represent a variety of performing arts. Collaborated with graphic designer to design logo and brand elements. • Promoted performances on a minimal budget. Utilized guerilla-marketing tactics including frequent regional publicity, New York Times features, marketing partnerships, and hosting local organizations with a consistent goal of building a strong and responsive e-list. • Innovative Revenue Generation: Initiated the facility rental business; anticipated to generate $100K+ in 2012. • Community Partnerships: Solicited community partnerships with well-established restaurants and local businesses, which expanded the brand’s visibility and provided credibility to the emerging organization. • Fundraising: Reached out to community leaders and businesses to become donors.• Event Planning: Planned member parties, fundraisers, open houses and press events. Succeeded in expanding the membership, volunteer base and potential board members. Showcased the facility for rentals. • Community Outreach: Identified and recruited key Fairfield philanthropists.

Greenwich, Ct; Nyc, Ny

While Attending New York University for Arts Administration I interned, consulted and worked part-time at an array of non-profit organizations including the Greenwich Land Trust, Keen Company, Roundabout Theatre and New York Theatre Workshop.• Publicity: Publicized upcoming theater seasons, securing publicity placements in major media.• Corporate Sponsorship: Identified and pursued corporate sponsors.• Marketing: Supervised design and production of marketing materials and programs; identified appropriate vendors for redesign of materials.• Event Planning: Created audience-building events around productions; coordinated and ran events for the Greenwich Land Trust.

Nyc, Ny & Maynard, Ma

Steered transition of aboutwork.com assets and personnel from I-Village.com to Monster.com, including building team of online experts; conceived and managed launch of 8 online career content areas; launched newsletters for job seekers, creating new sponsorship business around targeted ads and job listings.Launched new sponsorship business division, working with corporate clients, designing sponsorship sales products and website and training sales staff, annual revenue of 1 million plus.

New York City

Researched, recruited and trained a dozen online experts, editors and writers to create content for AboutWork.com, one of the early websites supported by America Online’s Greenhouse effort to launch content sites.• Managed a creative team to create compelling online content for website for jobseekers

Nyc

Wrote, edited and developed content for a variety of media outlets including web sites, cd-roms and magazines including Conde Nast Traveler, SELF and Vogue.