Eileen Mello Email & Phone Number

Nevada City, Ca, Us

Worldwide

• Provide fundraising, donor relations and organizational management consultation to nonprofits • Create organizational systems for data tracking and train clients to use CRM databases• Precisely manage project timelines and budgets (<$500K)• Meet annual fundraising goals (<$1.4M)• Assist in the creation of strategic branding and messaging campaigns • Manage grant programs, including private and government funding ($1M+)• Design robust strategies for fundraising, events management, stewardship and organizational management programs • Expertly execute events • Directly supervise staff, consultants, vendors and volunteers

Nevada City, California, United States

Oversaw a direct mail and email campaign that raised $75K — the highest amount raised electronically for this rural NPO with minimal fundraising experience and limited staff.

Grass Valley

Instrumental in helping the organization raise $5.5M for a theater renovation. Also co-designed and independently managed their first two annual galas, which were a whopping success in a tiny rural community with more raised in a single event than in the organization's multi-decade history (~$100K).

Senegal; India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand; The Netherlands, France & Germany

I have an acute case of wanderlust that led me to establish myself as an independent consultant. I've worked with clients domestically and internationally and am intimately familiar with the perks and challenges of location independence. I am no stranger to conducting meetings at odd hours and can always tell you the local time in Paris!

Berlin Area, Germany

Oakland, California

Annual Fundraising Goal: $1.4M• Directly supervise a staff of four employees and five consultants• Manage $1M+ grant program, including private and government funding • Guide and implement individual donor and major donor strategies• Assist in the creation of strategic branding and messaging campaign• Support the development and execution of communications and public relations campaigns • Oversee production of annual fundraising gala • Balance department budget• Assist Executive Director and Board of Directors

Hayward, Ca

Imagine budget cuts so severe that you were resigned to hosting an annual fundraising gala in a university cafeteria. This was one of the greater challenges I faced as the donor relations manager at Cal State East Bay. After months of intense planning, I was applauded by donors and executives alike for envisioning and flawlessly executing a remarkable venue transformation that led to the most engaging and memorable gala in the university's history.Under my leadership, I was responsible for the creation and implementation of strategic projects that successfully strengthened the donor relations program and invigorated our donor family in preparation of the university's first $15M capital campaign by strengthening the donor acknowledgement process and developing a strategic approach to the special events program. Most significantly, I led an intensive cross-campus research project documenting scholarship awarding practices that led to the development of the university's first centralized scholarship management program.

Oakland, California

While working with the Institutional Advancement team at Mills College I successfully oversaw a $75K+ program budget to produce dozens of sophisticated events -- from grand galas to intimate receptions -- honoring donors and esteemed public figures such as congresswoman Barbara Lee, feminist icon Gloria Steinem and contemporary artist, Hung Liu. In addition, I drafted correspondence for donors and alumnae, edited donor relations correspondence and grant materials, prepared detailed briefings for executive officers and helped maintain the highest level of data integrity.

Claremont, California

My career in fundraising began as a graduate student where I served as the dean's assistant and program manager for the Office of Religion and Culture for the School of Religion at Claremont Graduate University. The Religion and Culture program was funded through a grant bestowed by the National Endowment for the Humanities and was the basis for community outreach that funded millions for new programs at the School of Religion, including an Islamic Studies program and courses in Coptic Studies, Mormon Studies, and Zoroastrian Studies.Most notably, I was charged with maintaining the program as outlined by the grant award, stewarding personal relationships with the board members of eight different religious councils who helped fund the new university programs and assisting the dean with her fundraising efforts and communications pieces. I created organizational management systems, data housing, and executed strategic events promoting the new areas of study.

Ma, Women'S Studies In Religion

Activities and Societies: — Women’s Studies in Religion MA Program Chair, Religion Student Council, Claremont Graduate University.

Ba, Double-Major: Psychology; Philsosophy And Religion

Activities and Societies: Alpha Gamma Delta International Sorority, Philanthropy Chair, 2001-2002