Heather Wilcox Email & Phone Number

Boston, Ma, Us

Boston, Ma, Us

Greater Boston Area

New England

Few nonprofits have the resources to fully staff their development or technology departments. Let NonProfit Consulting supply the missing pieces you need to succeed. NonProfit Consulting helps growing nonprofits increase revenue, streamline operations and fulfill their missions more efficiently by providing customized support in: Database Management, Grant Writing & Administration, Annual Fundraising, Social Media, Online Impact, Special Events, Graphic Design and Daily Operations.Recent Client Projects:• Love146 – New Haven, CT: co-produce exclusive fundraising gala and charity concert in Los Angeles. Identify venue and vendors, solicit corporate sponsorships, lead committee activities, oversee event promotion and communications, manage volunteers and program delivery.• The Campaign to Elect Terry Masters - Stratford, CT: strategized marketing and communications; wrote and designed postcards, lawn signs, t-shirts, door hangers, and print and online ads; managed blog and Facebook content. • UConn Health Center Foundation – Farmington, CT: Wrote appeals for Health Center programs and alumni affinity groups. Assisted with signature $1 million gala: wrote remarks for the Governor, university president, board and deans; created PowerPoint slideshows and sponsor reels; designed sponsor ads; managed program book production; created auction bid packets and signage.• Manomet Center for Conservation Sciences – Plymouth, MA: Completed extensive database reconfiguration and cleanup, established gift processing and data entry policies, trained staff, created user guides by position, prepared mailing lists and historical donor/gift analyses.• Phoenix Rising Equine Rescue – Stonington, CT: redesigned and created content for webpage, launched Facebook page, established online giving capabilities, created donor database, wrote and designed newsletter and appeals.

New Haven, Ct

Reproductive health care, education and political advocacy non-profit serving CT & RI.Led daily operations in CT and RI offices. Established systems and policies and implemented new initiatives for improved annual fund management and growth, goal-setting and reporting, gift processing and acknowledgement, database management, donor stewardship and daily operations. Authored and designed collateral and fundraising materials, including direct mail and email solicitations, event invitations, newsletters, letterheads, flyers and annual reports. Managed all print production. Developed and maintained annual budget. Provided monthly and one-off analyses and projections. Managed 3-5 fundraising events annually. Spearheaded technology improvements; led staff trainings. Managed Special Events Associate and Development Database Manager. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Surpassed fundraising goals in 2009/10 and 2010/11 for first consecutive years in over five years.• Redesigned direct mail materials and improved list selection to achieve 10% annual renewal donation growth while slashing expenses by 60%.• Grew newsletter revenue and reduced expenses by more than 10% each through strategic storytelling and improved design and mail schedule.• Improved consistency, coordination and overall professionalism of collateral materials.• Introduced “local” branding concept to distinguish affiliate from national office.• Conceptualized and managed multiple record-breaking fundraising events, including organization’s first online, silent and live auctions. • Introduced special event landing pages, electronic save the dates and invitations, online registration pages and social media promotion.• Produced annual patient testimonial video shown at major fundraising events: identified compelling patient stories, recruited staff and patients, coordinated filming, trimmed and fine cut footage. • Led data conversion to repair faulty historical data.

Maynard/Allston, Ma

International non-profit funding conservation field research, environmental education, sustainable community-building and experiential learning.Designed and executed a comprehensive annual fundraising program using direct mail, email and telephone solicitations to raise 40-50% of organization’s unrestricted revenue. Produced all member and donor communications, including copywriting, design and print management. Extracted and prepared donor lists for all marketing and development efforts. Developed data maintenance policies and procedures. Troubleshot database and donor webpages. Prepared monthly and one-off revenue tracking and reconciliation reports for Finance and Executives. Informed and implemented organization’s strategic goals as a member of Senior Management team and ad hoc committees. Managed Database Assistant and volunteers.MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS: • Increased annual fund revenue by 3% during first year of hire to end a 3-year decline.• Overhauled all gift coding and reporting processes to transform neglected constituent database into an effective fundraising tool.• Developed in-depth revenue tracking and analytics to improve list selection strategies resulting in 17% revenue growth and $25,000 in cost savings.• Redesigned direct mail packages to create more compelling, coordinated and professional solicitations.• Maintained 12% annual membership revenue growth following a 4-year decline.• Acknowledged 9,000 gifts annually. Introduced electronic gift acknowledgements.• Conceptualized and launched Leadership Circle giving campaign. • Introduced email appeals and online fundraising campaign promotion.• Doubled staff contributions to employee giving campaign.

Pawtucket, Ri

Rhode Island’s largest and most comprehensive hospice and palliative care provider.Led daily operations of Foundation. Strategized three direct mail campaigns annually. Managed 8-10 fundraising events per year; solicited individual and corporate sponsorships. Produced all collateral and promotional materials, including copywriting, design and print management. Solicited foundation and municipal operating and capital funds. Administered constituent database and fundraising software. Acknowledged 300-400 gifts per week. Prepared revenue reports for Finance, Executives and Board. Managed volunteers and temporary staff. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS:• Successfully juggled roles of annual fund manager, events manager and database administrator during prolonged period of staff vacancies and hiring freeze.• Took ownership of constituent database, eliminating $120,000 in annual data entry vendor expenses. Redesigned coding system for improved data retrieval and analysis.• Streamlined gift entry and acknowledgements to process 300-400 gifts weekly with 1.5 staff.• Self-taught Adobe Creative Suite to fulfill print and web graphic design needs, eliminating $20,000 in annual expenses. Designed and produced direct mail packages, event invitations and landing pages, t-shirts and other promotional items, flyers, brochures and self-mailers.• Led all technology upgrades and software conversions, including staff trainings.

Providence, Ri

Liberal arts institution of higher learning ranked one of top two in the North since 1997.Recommended by Sociology department head to analyze data captured during a multi-year study on Eastern European adoption policies and practices. Created databases, variables, and values using the statistical packaging program SPSS. Analyzed data using crosstabs, frequencies, correlations, regressions and other descriptive statistics. MAJOR ACCOMPLISHMENTS: •Developed a uniform and functional coding system for open and closed-ended data captured during telephone and email interviews with more than 120 adoptive parents. Helped identify and analyze trends across lengthy open data sets. •Findings contributed to the publication of several scholarly journal articles, text book chapters and a book.

Mps, Strategic Public Relations

Environmental Studies

Ba, Political Science, Environmental Studies, Sociology

Activities and Societies: Pi Sigma Alpha Political Science Honor Society