Grace Leger Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area

www.homesteaddesigncollective.comOur team offers a unique and sophisticated approach, using both organic farming and fine gardening skills, for people who want help creating aesthetically designed, organic edible gardens. Homestead provides design, installation, and full-service organic maintenance, harvesting, bee keeping, preserving, floristry and composting services. Homestead is the design team behind the Test Gardens for Sunset Magazine, and our work has been featured in Vogue, Los Angeles Times, Better Homes & Gardens, Food52, and Gardenista.com

Berkeley, Ca

• I oversee and facilitate production of our animation projects, working closely with the Art Director and project Clients to ensure smooth production and on-time, in-budget delivery of finished videos.

San Francisco Bay Area

• I lead business outreach and development, finding new projects and clients and taking them from an initial phone call to contract signing • I develop pitches and proposals, budgets and contracts, project timelines and deliverables. Roguemark Studios is an digital content, illustrated-video, and animation studio out of the San Francisco Bay Area. We are a team of all-female artists, graphic recorders, writers, and animators. Our clients range from large tech companies, to smaller nonprofits, universities, events and conferences. We love tackling complex visual communication, making brand content, and producing unique and beautiful ways to tell your story.

Oakland, Ca

• Co-founded nonprofit fundraising start up • Accepted into incubation program with Oakland's Alliance for Community Development•As a nonprofit technology startup, my main efforts focused on business development and design, nonprofit relationship building, UX testing, and client acquisition.www.GiveWithGarden.com

Berkeley, Ca

• Managed all corporate and foundation grant funding across Sutter Health's East Bay region. • Head grant writer for Alta Bates Summit Medical Center, Sutter Delta Medical Center, and Eden Medical Center. • Worked closely with C-suite foundation leadership and hospital staff to develop grant funding strategy to secure multi-year funding for a series of $1M+ projects.

Berkeley, Ca

• Worked closely with the Director of Development to devise and implement fundraising strategy that brought in over $1,000,000 annually in support from individual donors, institutions, publishing partnerships and foundations. • Managed grant portfolio of institutional supporters, oversaw the grant life cycle: prospecting, writing and submitting LOIs and proposals, and producing final reports. • Strategized and tracked individual giving • Planned and implemented annual fundraising appeals (direct mail and e-appeals) • Produced internal reports for executive management and Trustees

Berkeley, Ca

• Worked closely with Executive Director and Development Director on comprehensive fundraising strategy to support the publication of 25+ books annually. • Wrote copy, reports, and donor materials for various campaigns• Assisted with traditional print and electronic donor appeals• Coordinated author requests and managed workflow between Publisher and authors • Managed CRM database (Salesforce), maintained and tracked all donated income data, assisted in implementing company-wide Salesforce transition

Telluride, Co

• Solicited and secured new and recurring corporate sponsorships•Created and pitched proposals to prospective clients, coordinating sponsorship offers• Managed and updated CRM database• Sponsor liaison at live events: timely and professional activation of on-site sponsor benefits and ensured brand visibility• On the ground event set up and break down

Grinnell, Ia

One-year apprenticeship through Grinnell College, where I was paired with a county-wide economic development nonprofit and work one-on-one with the Executive Director. Combined practical experience, academic training, and professional mentorship. During that year I coordinated community events, lead social media engagement, researched, drafted, and rewrote organization’s by-laws, held meetings with community leaders, and produced digital interviews for website/youtube.

Recieved direct training and mentorship in industry practices and copy writing from lead writers and producers. Worked on scripts for TV/Radio advertisement and trailers for several major films, including "True Grit," "Sanctum," "Paranormal Activity 2." Wrote the produced TV advertising script for "Date Night" on DVD/Blueray

I lead classes at a maximum security women's correctional facility in Mitchellville, IA (through Liberal Arts in Prison teacher program at Grinnell College)-Devised syllabus and co-taught weekly creative writing class at Mitchellville State Prison-Worked closely with students on the mechanics of writing and the editing and revision process

Bachelor Of Arts, Sociology

Political Science: Domestic And Foreign Politics In Europe

Summer Travel Study program consisting of three courses for 12 quarter units

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