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• Develop comprehensive fundraising strategies to drive organizational growth and sustainability.• Identify, secure, and steward major gifts, achieving significant revenue milestones.• Manage grants programs, successfully securing funding through strategic proposals.• Direct a high-performing development team, providing leadership and mentorship.• Identify external partnership opportunities, enhancing organizational outreach and impact.• Organize impactful events to cultivate donor relationships and raise funds.• Craft strategic communications to engage and retain donors and stakeholders effectively.

RCC is building safe, inclusive, and equitable spaces for LGBTQ+ families and raising a generation of inclusive humans.

Washington, Dc, Us

• Partnered with ultra-high-net-worth clients on their philanthropic obstacles and visions.• Developed comprehensive philanthropic strategies including impact and learning goals.• Deepened client understanding of issue area landscapes, including community efforts, research, and sector trends.• Sourced best-fit grantees that wed client values to emergent needs.• Implemented and innovated annual grants programs up to 9-figures.• Coached next-generation members to grow in their leadership.• Designed and facilitated board meetings.• Partnered with business development team to secure new clients and grow existing client work, supporting the generation of over $2M in revenue annually.• Contributed to internal thought leadership in trust-based practices and major gifts.• Mentored project team members.

Oakland, California, Us

• Set and execute national fundraising and earned revenue strategy in partnership with CEO and other team members. Growth in revenue over 2019-2020 from $11M to $170M.• Prospect, cultivate, secure, and steward mission and values aligned donors and partners. • Revenue projection and planning and creation of board-level financial reports.• Develop grant proposals and strategic documents to secure 6-8 figure gifts.• Finance and operations management for all Partnership and Revenue teams, including Salesforce administration.• Manage national team and provide direction and support in landscape analysis, research, and grant writing.

Oakland, California, Us

Oakland, California, Us

Richmond, California, Us

The Richmond Promise is a place-based college success initiative in Richmond, CA with the mission to create lasting pathways to student success in Richmond through a college scholarship, inclusive student-driven programming, and impactful community partnerships. As the first full-time development staff, my role as development manager includes:• Writing and implementing an annual development plan with a focus on achieving sustainability for the Promise beyond the seed investment• Developing strategies for identifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding current andprospective donors; executing programs to engage and motivate donors’ support of Richmond Promise through personal approaches and visits, appeals and campaigns, and special events• Building relationships with individuals, foundations, and corporations to develop fundingprospects from philanthropic sources• Leading efforts to steward donor relationships. Creating a donor-centric stewardship plan• Developing and maintaining a fundraising database utilizing existing program-facing Salesforce platform• Managing all external communications including the RP website, blog, and social media pages

Boston, Ma, Us

I worked with GreenLight Fund to unearth the most urgent, unmet needs for low-income families in the Bay Area and find best-of nonprofits from around the country that may be able to meet those needs.• Led and supported research on current, relevant Bay Area issues and priorities among low-income communities• Performed local landscape analysis including meetings with local experts and field analyses of key stakeholders in priority issues• Conducted diligence on prospective portfolio organizations, including financial research, evaluation report analysis, and participation in site visits• Assisted in organizing and preparing for Selection Advisory Council meetings, including creation of issue area briefs and other resources• Maintained local operations, including invoicing and donations, grant reports, and Salesforce & Box databases• Planned and managed annual portfolio launch events• Researched potential supporters for GreenLight• Wrote grant proposals • Created communications strategy and wrote monthly spotlights and blog pieces I also worked on national special projects, including collecting data from portfolio organizations and maintaining and renovating performance management systems, updating our onboarding processes, creating our annual portfolio report, and assisting other sites with their selection processes.

Boston, Ma, Us

The New Sector Alliance RISE Fellowship is an 11-month AmeriCorps program designed for recent college graduates with up to 5 years of post-college work experience. As full-time AmeriCorps members, RISE Fellows commit to serving a total of 1700+ hours, which includes 200 hours of training.As the New Sector RISE fellow, my responsibilities included:• Researching unmet needs of low-income youth and families in the Bay Area through data assessment, policy review, and interviews with community leaders • Evaluating prospective organizations to bring into the portfolio• Creating a sustainable communications strategy

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

Conducted nationwide policy research on the prevention of child sexual assault, considering the following:•Recidivism rates of CSA perpetrators •True prevention vs. Reaction•Involvement of school systems and/or parents•The role of school counselors

Chapel Hill, Nc, Us

•Assisted with research related to interpersonal violence prevention efforts at UNC Chapel Hill, including One Act bystander prevention training and HAVEN reactionary training•Collaborated with other campus areas (housing, the LGBTQ Center, the Carolina Union) and student leaders for special events, such as Relationship Violence Awareness Month

Assisted with research in the cell biology department with focus on gastrointestinal disease by:• Organizing hundreds of DNA samples for dozens of genetic lines of mice to support gastrointestinal disease research • Genotyping samples using PCR protocol and gel electrophoresis to track genetic trends

Experience teaching the following classes and age ranges:•Creative movement, ages 3-4•Hip hop, ages 4-Adult•Modern/Contemporary, ages 13-Adult•Jazz, ages 13-AdultIn addition, experience with:•Showcase choreography•Competition choreography•Dance Team Bootcamps

Bachelor'S Degree, Biology

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