Jo Wise Email & Phone Number

United States

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Maintain overall responsibility for designated market area including fundraising, volunteer recruitment/placement/marketing of Junior Achievement and Board development.
• Assure area revenue meets the targeted budget goal and carry out contingency plan to make up for any shortfalls.
• Supervise the placement and recruitment of volunteers.
• Implement quality improvements to ensure all programs meet model and retention of volunteers is maintained.
• Train and coach staff to a level necessary to achieve goals for that position's market area.
• Board management including organization of regular Board and Committee meetings, directing Board retreats and/or planning, and working with Board Chair to enhance the stature of the Board.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Act as consultant to existing United Way supporters to plan and implement strategies for internal employee campaigns.
• Attended corporate leadership meetings and conduct employee rallies to educate potential donors on United Way programs and create enthusiasm for donations.
• Served on committee to review and recommend funding requests – included detailed examination of financial information, measurable outcomes for programs, site visits, and interviews.
• Recognized as Top Loaned Executive for 2012.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Accountable for all aspects of non-profit arts organization including board management, fundraising, publicity, community outreach, corporate partnership development, etc.
• Established much-needed processes to pave the way for growth in organization including: 1) Organized board retreat to create strategic plan; 2) Arranged first-ever financial audit required for large grant applications.
• Responsible for organizing 3-day arts festival (60,000+ attendees). Identified new on-line process for artist selection, which doubled the entry fee income and significantly increased the quality of artists invited to.
• Developed partnerships and programs with local schools and Boys and Girls Club when arts education was identified as a priority in the strategic plan.
• Responsible for all fundraising strategies including writing of grants, individual and corporate giving, and special events.
• Acted as the “face” of the organization through public speaking, media interviews, electronic messaging, and printed materials. The following interview was conducted just 30 days after date of hire.

Oklahoma City

• Award-winning docent at Oklahoma City Museum of Art.
• Committee Chair for Arts Council of OKC 2010 Storytelling Festival. Served on organizing committees for Downtown New Year’s Eve Opening Night, and Festival of the Arts: 1) Solicited in-kind donations (i.e. printing.

Based In Oklahoma City

• Developed strategies to enhance donor experience with AHA and increase on-line fundraising income on a national level.
• Realized 8% increase in on-line fundraising first year and 6% increase second year by creating new personal fundraising sites and creating passionate on-line solicitations.
• Identified major inconsistency on donor acknowledgements across country. Recruited cross-functional team to explore solution and develop a pilot to centralize processes to ensure all donors were properly acknowledged.
• Enhanced promotion of existing memorial program and developed a new website where customers could create personalized on-line memorial tributes for loved ones resulting in $2M new dollars.
• Developed strong relationships with customer-related organizations.

Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, Missouri, Iowa, Nebraska

• Developed strong relationship with National Customer Strategies team resulting in 2 major initiatives that influenced other affiliates across the nation to follow: 1) Identified way to seamlessly forward calls from.
• Implemented new Siebel CRM system including: 1) Served on task force to develop data standards, identify common challenges and solutions, and create standard reports; 2) Developed and training for 250+ employees.
• Created and implemented Customer Service trainings for 250+ employees. The National Call Center adopted for their staff and eventually it was rolled out to 1500+ employees.
• Supervised department of six. Experienced only three staff turnovers (two of which were due to promotions) during my tenure. This was the highest retention rate in the affiliate.
• Received the Award of Excellence, the highest award given to one employee each year. Also received two Outstanding Achievement Awards, which very few individuals receive each year.

Based In Oklahoma City

• Supervised fundraising staff for all aspects of development and community organization in 35 rural counties in Western Oklahoma. Developed partnerships with major corporations and foundations.
• Achieved 30% revenue increase, representing $40,000 new dollars in region by efficiently recruiting better qualified volunteers, and organizing/managing fewer special events.
• Hired, trained and supervised 5 development staff for Western Oklahoma. All achieved their goals resulting in new money for the organization.
• Built relationships with foundations and organizations with missions that supported the work of the AHA, resulting in partnerships that allowed the placement of 100’s of educational kits in local grade schools, the.

Oklahoma City, Oklahoma Area

• Organized revenue generating special events and educational programs in 6 counties; and recruited, developed, and managed 4 divisional boards of directors.
• Recruited influential volunteers for all organizing committees.
• Awarded the Rome Betts Award, the highest national AHA fundraising award offered.
• Achieved 32% Yearly increase average over four-year period
• Directed and/or facilitated numerous workshops at state, regional and national conferences in fundraising, volunteer recruitment, special events and board development.
• Received Outstanding Achievement Awards 4 years in a row.

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