Emily Sammon Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Il, Us

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Oak Park, Illinois

AmPhil is a professional services firm that helps nonprofits raise more money. As an AmPhil consultant, I work with our nonprofit clients by:• Clarifying organizational messaging on mission, vision, and programming through conversations with stakeholders• Developing donor and legacy society branding authentic to a nonprofit’s mission, vision, and history• Establishing house file and acquisition direct mail programs, from creating program calendars and themes, to providing creative direction and copywriting for individual mailings, to coordinating vendor bidding and relationship management•Providing design support by creating annual reports, newsletters, and other donor collateral in Adobe Creative Suite• Building foundations and major donor programs through targeted foundation and major prospect research and identification, creating custom letters of inquiry and proposals, providing grant application and relationship moves management, and coaching development staff as they navigate foundation outreach and cultivationPersonal grant writing successes in this capacity include:- $15,000,000 to the largest non-profit, accredited online university in the country, awarded by the State of California Workforce Development Board for teacher training programs- $1,000,000 for a major non-governmental, non-profit human services network, awarded by Gerstner Philanthropies for a housing counseling case management program for at-risk families- $200,000 for a major non-governmental, non-profit human services network, awarded by the Rockefeller Foundation to scale a disaster management program helping to better direct FEMA aid to underserved communities- $150,000 for an arts and culture magazine, awarded by the New Pluralists to implement a market segmentation strategy- $150,000 for an arts and culture magazine, awarded by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation to support their work promoting pluralism in the public square

Freelance work designing web and print ads, print newsletters, and non-profit annual reports.

Greater Chicago Area

Supported AmPhil consultants through office administration, grant proposal writing, newsletter and direct mail copywriting, designing donor facing collateral in Adobe Creative Suite, and researching foundation and major donor prospects for AmPhil's client base.

Chicago, Illinois

Bachelor’S Degree, English Language And Literature, General

Activities and Societies: • Interdisciplinary Honors Program-- Member • English Major Honors Program-- Member • Alternative Spring Break.

Certificate, Grant Writing

During this introductory grant writing program, I learned about the challenges nonprofits face in obtaining grants, strategies to overcome.

Theological Studies

Certificate, Graphic Design

A comprehensive certificate program including classes on design principles, typography, digital illustration, and the major programs.