Responsible for securing approximately $1 million annually through Museum membership, grants, fundraising events, sponsorships, and rentals.Research and write annual grants to the Tennessee Arts Commission, Arts Build (Allied Arts of Greater Chattanooga), Lyndhurst and Benwood Foundations, National Endowment for the Arts, and others.Serve as lead staff director with gala volunteers to arrange and host the Hunter’s largest and longest-running fundraising event: Spectrum Art Auction.Helped establish the George T. Hunter Legacy Society and currently assisting in planned gift solicitation. Produce and oversee design of membership direct mail and e-communications campaigns.Arrange and host donor recognition events. Conduct cultivation and solicitation visits to current and potential sponsors.Create and track yearly departmental budget.Assisted in transitioning the Museum to a new CRM database—Altru by Blackbaud.Recruit and manage volunteers, as well as lead a staff of 4.

Conducted prospecting trips and cultivation events with key prospect groups—attorneys, business owners, and current/past clients.Solicited and coordinated publicity of speaking engagements/continuing education training sessions to top target groups.Lead prospect research projects using Dun & Bradstreet and GuideStar. Managed employee revenue action plan program.Created, wrote, edited and maintained all collateral materials, especially a quarterly newsletter. Created, launched, and tracked results of E-mail marketing campaigns. Implemented and maintained a CRM using Sage SalesLogix. Created/administrated the Decosimo Business Development Academy, day-long seminars involving national presenters, and conducted personal sales coaching.

Managed the annual fundraising, research, and stewardship efforts through outreach to the school’s main constituent groups—Trustees, Faculty/Staff, Alumni, Parents, Grandparents, Churches/Diocese, Businesses/Vendors, Foundations, and Friends. Produced and oversaw design of all Annual Fund direct mail, e-communications and telemarketing campaigns.Arranged and hosted donor recognition events. Conducted cultivation and solicitation visits to Annual Fund Major Gift Prospects.Created and tracked yearly Annual Fund budget, as well as helped maintain donor information in Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge database.Recruited and managed volunteers.Assisted with the building, installation, and operation of a low-power FM radio station for students, as well as served as liaison between the project’s major donor, contractors, and the school.

Managed a multi-county arts consortium to provide rural, South Georgia a 6-event Performing Arts Series.Provided arts in education opportunities and after school programs to five counties, especially for at-risk youth.Planned and hosted 3 annual fine arts/multi-cultural festivals: “The Love Affair Fine Arts Festival,” “Arts In Black Festival,” and “La Fiesta Del Pueblo” Hispanic Heritage Festival.Contracted/administered visual arts exhibits and arranged art trips.Produced a national literary contest.Provided children with disabilities arts experiences through Camp Artsarfun.In keeping with the station’s mission, explored new programming opportunities to further include the underserved, at-risk youth and audiences with disabilities.Administered a re-granting program to 8 counties of Grassroots Arts Program funds from the Georgia Council for the Arts. Solicited and administered corporate, individual, foundation, and grant support for all of the organization’s programs. Produced annual fund mailings and phone campaigns. Created and maintained all annual budgets. Managed 3 staff and over 70 volunteers.

Created Purdue University’s public radio fundraising, underwriting, and marketing program at WBAA.Developed the station’s corporate, foundation and annual fund support initiatives.Conducted capital campaigns for programming.Coordinated volunteers for fundraising outreach.Produced the station’s annual advertising/marketing campaign, including development of a complete station logo package for WBAA.Served on a task force to create a statewide corporate underwriting program in Indiana for public broadcasting.Produced annual fund mailings, telemarketing campaigns, and on-air fund drives.Accomplished foundation and business grant research, writing and reporting. Implemented and maintained donor database using Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge.Created and maintained annual development budget.

Explored/developed new programs.Prepared annual programming budget.Maintained contractual relationships with producers.Oversaw program acquisition.Coordinated audience research.Maintained documentation for the Federal Communications Commission.Managed station’s 12 announcers and oversaw their training as well as evaluation.Hosted daily classical music program and produced news/public affairs stories for local use and for National Public Radio. Coordinated WSMC’s on-air fundraising/annual fund activities.

Managed Southern's public radio fundraising, underwriting, and marketing program at WSMC.Developed the station’s corporate, foundation and annual fund support initiatives.Conducted capital campaigns for new equipment.Coordinated volunteers for fundraising outreach.Produced the station’s annual advertising/marketing campaign.Produced annual fund mailings, telemarketing campaigns, and on-air fund drives.Accomplished foundation and business grant research, writing and reporting. Created and maintained annual development budget.