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Boston, Ma, Us

Somerville, Massachusetts, United States

Provide strategic leadership, grant writing, and grants management for wide-ranging efforts that support equity in education programs. Tripled the number of DESE grants received between FY20 and FY23. Secured, managed, and reported on over $2 million in competitive and entitlement grants received in FY24 so far. Develop and implement strategies to align programmatic efforts with school's priorities. * Write and manage public and private grant proposals to secure funding for innovative programs in K-12 public education.* Manage grants that directly impact the lives of over 1,000 PreK-12 public school students each year, 89% of whom are students of color, 74% of whom are high needs, 61% economically disadvantaged, and nearly half of whom speak a language other than English at home.* Facilitate partnerships between funders and PHA leaders to launch pilot programs and expand them into sustainable long-term programs.* Write and manage ESSER I, II and III and ESSA strategic grants and related impact and outcome reports.* Collaborate regularly with PHA leadership team and staff, and the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE), and external private Foundation program officers to launch and expand programs.* Guide and support advancement team with everything from communications, student recruitment, family and community engagement and experiential learning programs as needed.

Lynn, Massachusetts

Led and managed marketing and communications strategy to increase awareness, engagement and support for KIPP's mission, students, teachers and schools in two districts, K-12 in Lynn and K-8 in Mattapan, with an annual development team fundraising goal of $1.2 million. * Wrote and managed private grant proposals to secure funding for innovative programs in K-12 public education.* Analyzed data-driven results, summarized and shared results on impact and outcomes.* Conceptualized, wrote, designed and produced marketing and communications materials to increase awareness around the important work KIPP is doing and built relationships with current funders and potential new funders.* Created, oversaw, and managed website and social media programs.* Grew earned media articles published by 20%.* Facilitated conversations and meetings with a variety of internal and external stakeholders including the Board of Directors, Leadership Team, school leaders, teachers, staff, students, families, volunteers, vendors and donors.

Winchester, Ma

Collaborated with over 100 volunteers, supporting their development and work in 22 nonprofit programs from the Blackstone Elementary School in Boston Public Schools to 4 El Hogar Schools in and near Tegucigalpa, Honduras, 2 Schools and a Medical Clinic in Leogane, Haiti among others. Led awareness campaign for youth jobs program connecting business leaders with Boston urban youth. Recruited and managed 60 parent and youth volunteers in supporting enrichment programs for summer camp focused on increasing educational and job opportunities for 625 children and youth. Advisory Board Member for 4 years for this $1.2 million nonprofit. Writer and managing editor of Outreach newsletter. Managed committee review and approval of 10 grants per year for educational projects and sustainable programs alleviating poverty.

Winchester, Ma

Provided non-profit organizations with effective and affordable ways to increase awareness and financial support. Collaborated on strategic planning and execution, marketing strategy, branding, communications management, website design, content management, social media campaign management, data analytics, grant writing, editorial and design services. Core competencies:•Market Strategy • Brand Positioning and Management •Development •Social Media Management •Grant Management •CRM •Project Management Proficient in Word Press, Adobe InDesign and Photoshop, Powerschool, Salesforce, Blackbaud E-Tapestry, Constant Contact, Mail Chimp, Google Analytics and Social Media Platforms.

Lexington, Ma

Directed site development and customer service for this $10 million capital funded business. Tripled annual sales using Order Trust software. Initiated and managed marketing programs to grow business to over $1 million in a year by strategically presenting 5,000 products on website. Implemented new features to enable online searches, email newsletters, and web maintenance services from Progressive Systems Technologies, Ubiquity Inc. and Verisign, tracking results using WebTrends.

Greater Boston Area

Collaborated on and managed re-branding of communications programs and implemented detailed direct marketing campaigns for start-up mail order catalog, growing customer database through innovative customer acquisition programs, contributing to mail order sales growth of $3M to $10M over 3 years. Managed customer database to strategically target marketing programs to drive retail store sales.

Greater Boston Area

Developed marketing strategies and implemented targeted multi-tiered circulation plans, mailing over 12 million catalogs a year, to generate $20M in gross sales. Managed customer database of over 2 million customers and developed customer acquisition and loyalty plans to grow customer database by 20%. Managed marketing assistants.

Master Of Business Administration - Mba

Bachelor Of Arts - Ba, Political Science, French

Activities and Societies: Crew Team, School newspaper