Elyse Dahdouh Email & Phone Number

Redwood City, California

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for planning, preparing and delivering ~100 events in the San Francisco Bay Area to enhance the mission of both CLSA & CLSI (California Life Sciences Institute) and promote its member companies. Specific duties include, but were not limited to, planning event and meeting logistics, creating event budgets, interacting with sponsors and leadership team to identify event needs, performing site evaluations, placing venue reservations, placing catering orders (happy hour style to intimate executive dinner style), determining AV needs and placing AV orders, creating or ordering centerpieces, working closely with the marketing team to ensure timely postings of events to CLSI and CLSA websites and registration links on Eventbrite, tracking and providing weekly registration & revenues updates, sending confirmation e-mails and reminders to maximize attendance, creating name tags and attendee lists, creating and reporting post-event attendee lists, and working with sponsors and leadership team to setup debrief calls and summarize post-event evaluations.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for all fund development aspects for the local Dress for Success offices. Dailyresponsibilities included, but were not limited to, grant applications, event planning, attending networking opportunities on behalf of Dress for Success, creating and maintain corporate relationships, corresponding with donors, maintaining and updating the corporate donor database, and promoting the organization via social media.

San Francisco Bay Area

Responsible for securing new sponsors and income, executing fundraising programs and events, developing relationship and promoting MDA's mission across the Greater Bay Area. Specific duties included, but were not limited to, achieving a $255,000 revenue goal on individual business plan, creating fundraising opportunities through various business development techniques including prospecting, targeted follow-ups and new lead generation, assisting in identifying, recruiting, training and managing temporary coordinators and volunteers, overseeing and participating in the execution of major fundraising programs such as MDA’s, Muscle Walk, Lock-Ups, and Fill the Boot, establishing and maintaining collaborative relationships with sponsors to meet business objectives, and creating press releases and media coverage to enhance the impact of fundraising events.

Honolulu, Hi

Responsible for assisting with the creation, implementation and maintenance of an effective marketing/PR and fund development program to enhance the mission of Big Brothers Big Sisters Hawaii. Specific duties included, but were not limited to, writing press releases, creating social media content, forming and maintaining corporate sponsorships, and planning two major fundraising events. The first event was an elegant wine & food pairing event that successfully raised over $30,000 for the organization. The second event was a fun two-day long bowling event that hosted 40 corporate sponsors and 1,200 bowlers in total to raise over $280,000.

Santa Monica, Ca

Responsible for selling and planning events ranging from 10-50 people, corporate, child’s birthday, adult birthday, team building, bachelor / bachelorette party, and other celebrations.Specific duties included, but were not limited to, recognizing each client’s different wants/needs for their specific event, informing clients of the different menu and bar options available, planning and monitoring the execution of the event, performing up selling by discussing and selling different party options for each client to personalize their event. *Rewarded as top 5 sales rep of the West Coast*

San Diego

Napa, California

Project Management

Bachelor'S Degree, Communication And Media Studies

British Media

Study abroad in London, England to learn about British media and how it differs from American media. Visited with and learned from BBC.

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Communication And Media Studies