John Kriescher Email & Phone Number

Palo Alto, California, United States

Palo Alto, California, United States

• Led the Principal Gifts Donor Relations pod in developing strategies and initiatives to steward the Foundation’s most impactful donors.
• Partnered with executive team members at the Foundation and top Stanford faculty to understand the impact of donations and create personalized reports and communications for donors.
• Managed an Associate Director and 5+ freelance writers and consultants to produce engaging philanthropic communications, including impact reports, speeches, articles, and proposals.
• Led the adoption of Qwilr to create beautiful online reports and communications for donors.
• Created a Top Donor Program in partnership with the Principal Gifts leadership team to devise comprehensive stewardship strategies for the Foundation’s 10 most significant donors.
• Enhanced the Foundation’s reporting and stewardship obligation tracking system by using Monday.com to manage processes and link with information in Raiser’s Edge.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Partnered with development officers, faculty members, donors, and patients to translate research initiatives and education programs into effective proposals, case statements, magazine articles, reports, and talking.
• Managed UTHealth Houston’s online giving presence by enhancing navigation, creating and revising webpages, and developing donation pages to create a seamless digital experience for donors.
• Cultivated the voice and vision of the Many Faces. One Mission. campaign—UTHealth Houston’s $500 million fundraising campaign—by creating vision statements, case statements, and summaries.
• Managed web developers, designers, and vendors to create and maintain the Many Faces. One Mission. campaign website and donation page by developing copy, updating content, analyzing traffic, and liaising with developers.
• Managed a development writer to produce engaging fundraising communications, including talking points, impact reports, articles, solicitations, and proposals.
• Collaborated with key faculty members to develop nine cases for support to identify and define UTHealth’s top fundraising priorities.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Crafted and designed proposals to individuals, foundations, and other organizations to help secure more than $7 million in commitments to the university.
• Created solicitations, stewardship reports, and talking points using the president’s voice to cultivate, inspire, and recognize donors.
• Mentored junior writers and served as a team lead to accomplish large-scale projects, including refreshing content on the giving website.

Houston, Texas, United States

• Partnered with faculty, development officers, patients, and donors to contribute articles to UTHealth’s Out in Front Publication, which highlights the university’s greatest accomplishments in patient care, research.
• Cultivated and safeguarded the university president’s voice by writing stewardship letters to personally acknowledge major gifts.

Houston, Texas Area

Houston, Texas Area

• Managed the multi-channel marketing and solicitation efforts for UTHealth’s grateful patient donor acquisition program by organizing campaigns, writing appeals, crafting thank you letters and serving as primary editor.
• Scaled up physician to patient appeal mailings from 15 in fiscal year 2016 to more than 26 in fiscal year 2017 by organizing a writing and editing work flow and working directly with physicians to conduct interviews.
• Educated physicians on the importance of stewardship and created thank you letters from physicians to donors.
• Conceptualized and implemented UTHealth’s first patient engagement and solicitation email campaign to more than 120,000 patients by coordinating with UT Physicians and integrating UTHealth’s HealthLEADER publication.
• Planned the upcoming fiscal year 2018 direct mail campaign to more than 30,000 patients by conducting a patient donor analysis to identify the best patient prospects and craft relevant messaging.

Houston, Texas

• Coordinate with web designers, project managers and product owners to write online travel guides, articles and web copy.
• Help develop style guides and project briefs to scale projects out to local teams.
• Utilize best practices in keyword SEO and editing guidelines to create, review and continually improve web copy that cultivates the Booking.com brand while accurately reflecting the character and facilities of.
• Analyze content statistics for more than 4,000 accommodations and top locations using Microsoft Excel and other databases to identify areas of improvement and provide local teams with relevant information.
• Collaborate directly with property owners and managers to develop web copy that best represents each accommodation while adhering to the Booking.com brand standard.
• Coordinate and conduct regional teleconference meetings with local offices located throughout Western North America to share and discuss best practices as they relate to editing.