Emily Seddon Email & Phone Number

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

- Lead grantmaking to help communities achieve development goals that create more housing choices, support living wage job creation, and connect jobs, housing, and regional amenities to create amore equitable region.-Support cities and counties in housing policy, community economic development, and land use and planning to help achieve development goals.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Advise strategy for nonprofit operations and programs, including assisting with program design and budgeting.
• Support initiatives to advance policy and identify new resources for affordable housing and social services, including the Governor’s Task Force on Housing and Minneapolis’ mayoral transition team.
• Write communications materials, including reports, evaluations, grant applications, appeals, and public-facing print and electronic materials.
• Facilitate conflict resolution within and between organizations in multicultural environments.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Haven Housing strategically sunset its operations in May 2024 after gifting its emergency shelter program to another nonprofit.
• Led internal administration and operations—including responsibilities in IT, human resources, finance, compliance, and risk management—through an executive leadership transition and program closures, ensuring quality.
• Led supportive housing and emergency shelter programs, including developing program logic models, negotiating agreements with public funders, developing policies and procedures, addressing participant complaints, and.
• Advanced reputation and brand, including building and maintaining public and private partnerships, creating all external communications, managing crisis communications, speaking at events, and advocating with.
• Improved financial management systems, including creating policy and procedure manual, creating and managing the organization’s budget, forecasts, and cash flow in partnership with the Finance Consultant.
• Guided the Board of Directors to set future direction and support their community leadership by providing expert analysis and recommendations.

Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States

• Spearheaded a comprehensive multi-year strategy in collaboration with the Executive, Finance, HR, and Operations Directors to enhance the organization's financial sustainability and reputation. Established strategic.
• Directed a high-performing team responsible for fundraising, internal and external communications, contract management, community engagement, advocacy, and volunteerism, overseeing four staff members. Surpassed annual.
• Expanded and supervised all facets of the organization’s individual and institutional giving strategies, personally cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding donors. Notable successes include a 420% increase in corporate.
• Formulated and executed comprehensive internal and external communication plans, leveraging in-person, print, and digital strategies. Crafted compelling content for social media, websites, and newsletters.
• Pioneered the implementation of best practices and processes for a new Raiser’s Edge fundraising database, ensuring compliance with federal and state charitable giving regulations. Strengthened organizational capacity.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Worked with faculty and staff to identify opportunities for growth and new programs, establish partnerships, and develop grant applications.
• Developed a student ambassador program for the University and directed student work.
• Created and implemented donor stewardship communication plan with the goal of building trust in the University Foundation.
• Designed and implemented annual alumni giving strategy. In FY20, my work exceeded goals and increased the number of alumni donors by 36% and unrestricted giving by 22%.
• Managed (research, cultivate, solicit, and steward) a portfolio of mid-level individual donors.
• Wrote for and served as editor for buzz (alumni magazine).

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Established and cultivated cross-campus partnerships to fundraise for multi-disciplinary initiatives.
• Led the university's fundraising team, including developing and implementing annual plans and fundraising strategies.
• Supervised two director-level staff.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Designed and implemented the infrastructure to support a strategic approach to communication and fundraising to support a $5+ million budget. Developed new lines of fundraising for the organization. Successfully.
• Planned and implemented new initiatives that addressed urgent and emerging needs in the affordable housing system. Facilitated discussions of stakeholders and experts annually to identify urgent issues and areas of.
• Managed grant making and fiscal sponsor relationships for efforts to end homelessness, including managing finances and relationships, negotiating agreements, monitoring progress, and evaluating performance.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Oversaw fundraising activities and reporting for the organization with an annual budget of more than $5 million, including prospect research, grant writing, and program and organizational evaluation. Exceeded annual.
• Oversaw all external communication efforts for the organization. Led the development of a new website for the organization and established an annual communications strategy. Managed one contract communications employee.
• Project manager for a five-year Strategic Planning process. Oversaw strategic planning consultant, facilitated group discussions, worked to integrate the final Strategic Framework with daily operations.
• Worked with Vice President on strategic initiatives that demonstrated innovative financing for affordable housing and community development and district development and transit-oriented development models..

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Managed the "Affordable Housing Collaboration in Minnesota: Outcomes and Lessons Learned" project that built public will and inspired action for affordable housing by sharing stories and lessons learned from local.
• Supported strategic partnerships in the area of transit oriented development, including the Living Cities Corridors of Opportunity initiative. Gathered, analyzed, and summarized data and information on projects and.
• Supported organizational development, including assisting in strategic planning, developing funding proposals, and preparing presentation materials for management reports.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Researched collaborative affordable housing programs in Minnesota, using quantitative and qualitative techniques.
• Wrote articles that highlighted the outcomes and lessons learned among affordable housing programs.
• Compiled data that can be used to share lessons and best practices from the affordable housing sector.
• Participated in development team for new website to share research.

Syracuse, New York Area

• Reviewed and recommended grant applications, and evaluated past grants in collaboration with Program staff.
• Coordinated The Leadership Classroom training sessions for local grassroots leaders.
• Analyzed qualitative and quantitative data collected from the Performance Management Learning Community and grant outcome evaluations.

Maplewood, MN

• Strengthened relationships and provided high-level customer service to partner organizations, while maintaining compliance with local, state, and federal guidelines.
• Built capacity within our partners by consulting on board development, business models, and management strategies.
• Solicited and developed new relationships for distributing food to those in need.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Coordinated program operations for the main office and satellite distributions in compliance with federal regulations.
• Trained and developed strong relationships with volunteers to run food distributions and assist in the office.
• Established new distribution sites and connected with potential new partners.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Oversaw daily operations, while assisting with the search for a new Executive Director.
• Coordinated the efforts of the 35-member Board of Directors.
• Supervised Earth Week events and managed a $3000 budget, reimbursements, and all required reporting.

Greater Minneapolis-St. Paul Area

• Designed annual publications with direction from several different committees.
• Maintained, updated, and made more user friendly the organization’s website.
• Assisted with advocacy on issues important to downtown, including the planning of the Central Corridor.

• Recruited and trained volunteers to work with refugees, asylees, and victims of trafficking.
• Counseled refugee clients on the job search process and available services.
• Recorded and reported matching grant funds.

Master Of Public Administration, Nonprofit Management, Conflict Resolution And Collaboration

Activities and Societies: Program for the Advancement of the Resolution of Conflict and Collaboration, Educational Policy Inquiry Club.

B.A., Political Science, Sociology, Geography

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Alpha (Co-Chair), Admissions Tour Guide (Tour Guide and Program Coordinator)