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Martinez, Ca, Us

Martinez, Ca, Us

Investigate potential opportunities for VITA services in the Virginia/DC area with United Way of the National Capital Area with Americorps/Serve Virginia.

Remote

Freelance grant writer and copywriter with a range of experiences from creating copy for websites, blogs, and marketing collateral to grant writing for charitable non-profits. Connected agencies to grants up to $2 million. I prefer to work for charitable non-profits focused on helping underserved communities, animal welfare, and financial stability. On occasion, I will work with clients outside of these areas. Experienced in researching prospective and upcoming grant opportunities, tracking the stages of multiple grants, and creating donor solicitation materials.

Benicia, California

Manage development of grant applications and reporting. Responsible for day-to-day operations, and data management. Communicate on behalf of underserved communities with local leaders. Design and execute programs to break the cycle of poverty. As assistant director, most of my responsibilities involve operations, human resources, as well as program management.

San Francisco, Ca

Cultivated relationships with partnering non-profits in the East Bay. Facilitated IRS courses for prospective VITA volunteers to certify to the advanced level, managed grant applications and reporting to fulfill client outreach.Collaborate with the marketing department to create collateral for client and volunteer outreach. Responsible for program budget. Familiar with SalesForce use for both project and program management.Member of the Diversity, Inclusion & Equity Council committee. Planned, facilitated, and executed, educational experiences and events for the Asian American committee and the women's committee.

Sandwich, Ma

Participate in monthly meetings, fundraising for candidates and local causes, scholarship programs and discussing issues within our community.Advocated with local leaders on pending bills and community concerns.

Middleboro, Ma

Online, mobile, and app customer service manager to support the customer experience. Created and edited content for email and instant message scripts for customer service representatives.

Sandwich, Ma

Assisted the campaigns of President Barack Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, and Senator elect Elizabeth Warren. Responsibilities included, (but were not limited to) phone banking within the fundraising guidelines, data management, canvassing and informing voters of polling information for the Democratic ticket.

New York, Ny

As Training Coordinator my main responsibilities include, supporting the organization of training on-site for our members, evaluating all trainings by thoroughly reporting and reviewing all aspects of training, working with management and other supervisory staff to develop individual training programs for development of members.

As a member of the Quality Assurance team I recognized bugs within our website and SMS service. I logged defects and managed them throughout their lifetime in Bugzilla and Streber, tracked changes from Business Analysts using Business Requirement documents, and assisted in writing and editing testcases. I also relayed information and updates between the President of the company and Quality Assurance.

Intern of marketing, social media, and research. Assisted in projects in the areas of search engine optimization and search engine marketing, along with other online marketing tasks involving increasing traffic to the website. Supervised all of our social media accounts including Facebook, MySpace, Twitter, and more.

As Editor-in-Chief of The Monitor, Marymount Manhattan College's newspaper, I managed ad sales, the production of the paper, our writers, photographers, and planned events. I was also responsible for our finances, and fundraising.

I provided office support for multiple supervisors. Responsibilities included researching sources and fact checking for our communication department, creating press kits, archiving print for our PR department, basic book keeping with accounting, and filing, data entry for the overall organization.

Port Chester, Ny

Volunteered on a regular basis in the infant and toddler classrooms. Assisted in sensory play, infant care, feedings and diaper changes, and whatever the head teacher needed.