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Silverton, Or, Us

Silverton, Or, Us

Write | edit training curricula, proposals, publications, and reports for clients across multiple business units and subject areas. Collaborate with international teams of staff and consultants. • Curriculum development: Create and revise lesson plans for training courses targeting girls, youth, and farmers in developing countries.• Proposals: Edit / write proposals to USAID and otherU.S. government agencies, bilateral and multilateral donors, and private foundations. Ensure compliance with RFPs.• Across writing projects: identify gaps in content, draft or recommend solutions, manage and integrate input from multiple contributors, create new material (including graphics), and conduct research as needed.

Project: USAID Mini-Grids Support Toolkit• As lead editor, ensured completeness, clarity, and consistent style across 10 online educational modules written by experts from different institutions.• Promoted to interim project manager based on performance. Created and managed workplan, supervised web designers, liaised with USAID representative. Improved timeliness and quality of deliverables.

Salem, Oregon

Project Director, Youth Leadership Program (YLP) with Bosnia and Herzegovina (2008-2011) • Directed 3-year, $300,000 U.S. State Department civic engagement program. • Managed project featuring yearly three-week program of academic courses, leadership training, volunteer projects, and family homestays in Salem, Oregon for 18 high school students and 3 teachers from Bosnia and Herzegovina. • Responsible for budget, curriculum development, volunteer coordination, event planning, and reporting. Coordinated large team of diverse project partners. • Collaborated closely with U.S. State Department and U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo. • Assessed student follow-on projects in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Led strategic planning, programs, partnerships, and fundraising for new institute. • Transitioned IDEA—an independent nonprofit—into an integrated university institute. • Managed organization-wide and project-specific budgets. • Supervised and mentored Assistant Director and Communications Director.

Salem, Oregon

Led strategic planning, development, marketing, and partnerships for civic engagement organization with annual budget of $500,000. • Designed and implemented fundraising plan. Increased individual giving; wrote successful proposals to U.S. government agencies and foundations.• Led board capacity-building: managed meetings, committees, and events.• Wrote and edited all fundraising, marketing, and project materials.• Created new events to further mission; raised IDEA’s profile locally and nationally.

Ypsilanti, Michigan

Designed and implemented fundraising plan for nonprofit youth health clinic with annual budget of $1.4 million. Improved board effectiveness and increased revenue.• Prepared all development and marketing materials, including government grant proposals, foundation grants, annual reports, appeal letters, and donor correspondence• Increased revenue from year-end appeal by 30%. Improved board involvement in fundraising.

Hanoi, Vietnam

Led IDE-Vietnam—an agriculture and water resources organization with an annual budget of $250,000—from insecure financial future to multi-year funding of more than $1,173,000.• Led creation of organization’s first three-year plan for projects and fundraising.• Managed all development activities: wrote and edited proposals to U.S. government agencies, bilateral donors, and private foundations.• Mentored local staff in project planning and proposal development.

Arlington, Virginia

Edited competitive proposals for international development organization with 8 business units, 4 overseas offices, and an annual budget of $40 million.• Edited large proposals to USAID and other international development agencies in response to competitive requests for proposals (RFPs).• Ensured responsiveness and compliance with donor requirements.• Integrated content from multiple authors. Ensured logical organization and consistency.• Edited proposals up to 100 pages in length under extremely tight timelines.• Served as organization’s foundation fundraising resource: tracked foundation relationships organization-wide, edited proposals, researched prospects.