Joseph Bardsley Email & Phone Number

Vancouver, Bc

• Promotion from Coordinator, Music Programs in April 2024.• Coordination and analytic review associated with innovative, provincially-funded music and sound recording grant programs focused on economic development. • Provision of seamless service to individual and institutional grant applicants during all stages of the application, assessment, and outcomes process. • Administration of public music funding - directed via Amplify BC, the Province's dedicated music fund, alongside the Vancouver Music Fund - by educating and consulting with applicants and recipients, and analyzing grant proposals. • Collaborating with B.C.-based music industry organizations, agencies, festivals, communities, producing and presenting organizations, and audiences to amplify Creative BC’s activities on the sector’s behalf.• Capturing knowledge, contacts, and data to inform funding program success indicators, and foster a comprehensive understanding of the sector’s ecosystem and evolving funding needs.• Identifying and supporting music industry activities by administering public funding to grow activity, professional development, and jobs within the music industry.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Inaugural fund development position for this professional classical and new music presenter, responsible for raising ~$300K annually from individuals, corporations, and foundations, and ~$275K annually from all levels of government.• Government support, including: leading government grant requests and final reports.• Foundation support, including: increasing financial support from foundations; understanding foundations’ goals for grants; researching institutional foundation opportunities, developing and initiating targeted foundation requests; creating a foundation management system, and producing final reports.• Corporate sponsorships, including: developing Music on Main’s corporate sponsorship program; understanding corporations' goals of sponsorships, researching corporate sponsorship opportunities; developing and initiating targeted corporate sponsorship requests; creating a sponsorship management system, and producing final reports.• Donor and sponsor stewardship, including: planning, coordinating, leading, and executing stewardship events; designing tailored strategies for engaging new and existing donors in ongoing giving programs; implementing strategies through targeted funding solicitations and campaigns, including analysing data and coordinating fund drives; and, investigating ways to utilize online crowdfunding and social media mechanisms effectively.• Special fundraising events, including: managing and supporting fundraising events; engaging with event sponsors and donors, and managing special event committees and volunteers.• Development and launch of the organization's inaugural Planned Giving program in 2018/19. • Support of individual and institutional donor stewardship and benefit delivery initiatives associated with ISCM World New Music Days 2017 - the largest contemporary music festival in Canadian history - in November 2017.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Responsible for the timely research, development and submission of all government, private foundation and corporate grant proposals, as well as associated analytic interim and outcome reporting, on behalf of Canada’s second-largest opera company. This collective revenue source equates to ~20 percent of VO's annual operating budget.• Played a leadership role in securing institutional support for VO's newly-commissioned mainstage and touring projects at each stage of development: 'Naomi's Road' (Luengen/Hodges; 2013) and 'Stickboy' (Weisensel/Koyczan; 2014), as examples, as well as for Canadian and company mainstage premieres.• Proactive, strategic research and related financial forecasting in support of confirmed/prospective revenue sources that support the Opera's continuing priorities, programs and initiatives. • Management of a comprehensive tracking system of successful, in-process and declined funding proposals in Tessitura 12.• Continuing dialogue with various in-house artistic and administrative departments that further the Opera’s scope of work and strategic plans, so as to maintain an up-to-date awareness of funding priorities. • Ongoing cultivation and proactive management of relationships with program officers and administrators within all levels of government, as well as those within private/family foundation and corporate funding agencies. • Accurate and timely acknowledgement, recording and stewardship of applicable contributions.• Production of various forms of written collateral – online creative copy, house programme content, solicitations, speaking notes, case-for-support statements, and other items.• Management, event creation and execution, member retention and stewardship, and regular Tessitura contribution processing associated with VO's Young Patrons Circle (YPC) program.• Coordination and reconciliation of all cross-departmental billing and invoicing associated with VO’s ongoing use of Vancouver Civic Theatres spaces.

Vancouver, Canada Area

• Management and stewardship of ongoing relationships with corporate partners, individual donors, and government granting agencies.• Played a leadership role in the conception and development of updated marketing, communications and program-specific print and digital collateral for the organization, including its updated Planned Giving materials in June 2011. • Supported the re-launching of the Crisis Centre's Web presence in August 2011.• Prospecting and research into potential new corporate and foundation-based revenue opportunities. • Ongoing production of grant applications, letters of intent, and outgoing final reports. • Management and coordination of the annual campaign.• Development and production of a variety of communications collateral: newsletters, annual reports, news releases, e-blasts, and special event signage.• Management of the Crisis Centre’s digital presence: its three websites, assorted social media outlets, and online volunteer engagement, stewardship and retention. • Successful completion of a 325-hour course with practical, applied and interpersonal instructive components on crisis intervention, suicide prevention, and mental health management. Training with mental health professionals on crisis de-escalation, resource referrals, and suicide awareness and intervention; application of these skills in real-life telephone and chat room settings. • Ongoing media relations management.

The University Of Calgary

• Increased volunteer base by 110 students from 2007-2009. • Recipient of 2010 Alberta Ingenuity Fund Grant in support of excellence in science communications project management. • Conceived, developed, and launched the inaugural All-Science Challenge: a competitive event which attracted approximately 200 high school students to campus annually for a day of friendly competition. This event has continued at the UofC on an annual basis since its inception in 2008. • Successfully lobbied Calgary City Hall to declare annual civic 'Days of Science' in May 2008 and 2009.• Responsible for all development of marketing collateral and oversight of media relations for the UofC LTS chapter, which was comprised of five coordinators, and over 250 student volunteers. • Secured over $30,000 in cash and in-kind sponsorship from 2007-2009; stewarded stakeholders, and identified future prospects accordingly.• Liaised with UofC’s Faculty of Science Development Office on volunteer management, sponsor stewardship, benefit delivery and LTS key messaging in the context of the University’s larger strategic priorities.

Calgary, Canada Area

• The UofC Operetta Company functioned as an annual full-credit, full-semester performing arts program for UofC undergraduate voice and music students. • Provision of media relations support, and drafting of applicable press releases. • Production of all graphic design collateral for each production.• Production of grant applications, and other fund development activities as required.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Management and stewardship of ongoing relationships with corporate, foundation, and government partners. • Conception, execution, and analysis of stewardship, client hosting, and business development events for TC's corporate sponsors, in conjunction with specific TC performances and special events.• Management of direct-mail campaigns intended to renew individual support for the organization.• Development and implementation of recruitment/recognition/retention programs for volunteers throughout the season; ongoing volunteer supervision and mentorship. • Identification and qualification of corporate prospects, development of case-for-support content, and subsequent development of sponsorship proposals so as to increase annual contributed revenue. • Provision of support to the Director of Development and President and CEO as necessary regarding major individual and institutional solicitations. • Management and execution of logistics, deliverables, and associated budget controls for two major fundraising events each year – Theatre Calgary’s 'A Night with the Stars' and 'The Big Run' (an Oscar Night-themed gala, and a competitive, team-based half-marathon road race, respectively).• Significant contributions to a newly created strategic fundraising plan that grew Theatre Calgary’s total contributed revenue from $3M in 2008 to $5.2M in 2011.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Worked in active local, regional, and national partnership with the Canadian Federation of Students (CFS) to disseminate key messages, launch advocacy campaigns, and coordinate national post-secondary policy development initiatives for GSA constituents on behalf of this national student advocacy organization. • Managed, evaluated, and refined numerous communications initiatives: a weekly newsletter, a quarterly print magazine, an annual report, the GSA's website and social media pages, and additional internal and external communications channels within the organization and the UofC campus at large. These channels reached an audience of over 15,000 UofC students, staff and faculty each month. • Increased attendance at GSA annual special events by an average of 30% from 2006-2008, launched the organization’s inaugural annual report, and played a leadership role in the conception and execution of the organization's first comprehensive website overhaul since 2002. • Managed and coordinated volunteers for special events of variable sizes (10 – ~600 students).• Developed, implemented, and evaluated several new programs designed to quantifiably improve student quality of life: bursaries, peer mentorship programs, revised standing policies on education, and ongoing collaborations with other campus departments. • Addressed media inquiries, developed and issued press releases, and delivered key messages on behalf of students and other University and GSA stakeholders to the public at large.• Wrote speeches, prepared speaking notes, and managed civic, provincial, and federal government advocacy campaigns on behalf of various GSA Executive members. • Led hiring processes for new administrative staff, and served on various UofC committees and stakeholder groups as a GSA representative throughout each academic year.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Performed an array of background research and audience analyses for a professional Calgary-based theatre company that placed special artistic emphasis on female playwrights, with a dual mandate of social activism and gender studies through text-based projects.• Secured and managed a team of 25 volunteers to support awareness and outreach projects. • Used accumulated data to craft and distribute press releases and other elements of media kits for individual productions.• Leveraged data to benefit fund development efforts with community partners.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Front-line customer service in a busy and complex retail environment, with rapidly-shifting priorities and work-flow objectives. • Regular senior-level front end duties as required: transactions, cash management and reconciliation, cross-departmental communication, and asset protection on an ongoing basis. Regular interaction with a varied array of clientele, colleagues, third-party vendors, and the general public at large. Cross-departmental inventory management, in conjunction with general clerks and stock associates. • Supervision of cashiers and courtesy clerks; regular performance management, evaluation, and proactive problem-solving as required. On-boarding and orientation processes for newly-hired front end staff. Processing, tabulation and reconciliation of bi-weekly time cards for all store staff, under the direction of the Store Manger. Front end supervisor for an average of eight cashiers and four courtesy clerks on a daily basis.• Cash office management: store opening and closing duties; reconciliation of daily floats and cash totals; creation and review of analytic reports detailing store performance and actuals vs. projections, broken out by department. • Participant in the Retail Leadership Development program, as administered by company HR office.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Assisted in developing, implementing, and evaluating marketing and promotional strategies.• Carried out a variety of promotional and public relations-related tasks (the drafting of press releases and development of promotional collateral, as examples).• Managed over 75 volunteers throughout the Summer for various external initiatives (i.e., community engagement efforts, trade shows, special events, etc.) • Liaised with community members through phone interviews, electronic surveys, and telemarketing campaigns to gather information that was relevant to ATP’s marketing and communications plans.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Facilitated focus groups and brainstorming sessions so as to help students deal with problems occurring in the production process as effectively as possible.• Coordinated the paper’s circulation routes and zones through ongoing research and re-evaluation.• Managed all steps of the desktop newspaper production process.• Assisted student reporters and editors in completion of individual tasks on production days.• Coordination of advertisements and other benefits accorded to in-kind publication sponsors.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Provided ongoing front-line support for non-profits receiving Community Investment funding. • Created written copy for EnCana’s community investment website.• Wrote and distributed media advisories and press releases for media outlets province-wide.• Managed accurate internal records on ongoing community investment partnerships.• Assisted with researching, writing, editing, and producing a brochure highlighting local initiatives. • Attended and participated in client meetings and discussions on projects, ideas, and issues with Community Relations team members.• Assessed overall program strategy, and identified potential opportunities to create greater profile for EnCana in the broader Alberta region.• Liaised with the Communications department on the creation of promotional materials. • Assisted the Group Lead with creating presentations, coordinating meetings, and organizing team activities.

Calgary, Canada Area

• Contracted, part-time staff writer for the Calgary Sun, one of Calgary's two major daily newspapers with nationwide circulation and a local subscriber base of over 48,000 daily readers. • Regular pitches and subsequent contributions to entertainment, fashion, and young adult sections, under the guidance of their respective editorial staff leads.• Ongoing research into emerging issues and trends, subsequent story development, and timely delivery of content to the Sun's editorial desk for publication.

Fellow, Cultural Leadership Program, Arts And Culture Management

• The Cultural Leadership program was developed and is offered in collaboration with Canada’s first Artistic Leadership Development.

Bachelor Of Communications Degree, Journalism, 3.89 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Media relations, layout and desktop publishing, concise writing, collaborative team-based work, graphic design.

Adobe Creative Suite Certificate, Graphic Design, 3.68 Gpa

Activities and Societies: The University of Calgary Symphonic Band (2006 - 2008) The University of Calgary Wind Ensemble (2007 - 2008).

Alberta High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas And Certificates, 3.92 Gpa

Activities and Societies: Horn Player: Symphonic Band, Concert Band, Jazz Band, Wind Ensemble, and Marching Band. Bishop Grandin High.