Laura Alpert Email & Phone Number

Brookline, MA, US

• Report to the CEO and serve on the senior leadership team for this $50 million statewide organization that supports people with disabilities.
• Lead the organization’s philanthropic revenue growth and increase visibility for MAB's three divisions: the Massachusetts Association for the Blind & Visually Impaired, Ivy Street, and MAB Adult Disability Services..
• Lead a team of six high performing development, marketing, and operations professionals to manage and implement comprehensive fundraising and marketing strategies.
• Collaborate with the CEO, Board members, volunteers, senior leadership, organizational staff, and donors to enhance fundraising and support revenue generation.
• Partnered with the CEO to launch MAB Shark Tank and engaged MAB's Board in multiple fundraising campaigns.
• Collaborate with a variety of development, marketing, and communications contractors and partners.

Boston, Massachusetts, US

• Reported to the President and CEO and served on the executive leadership team.
• Contributed to strategy, fundraising, and operations of the $32 million comprehensive campaign (50% to goal).
• Helped to build, hire, and retain full-time team of 10 as well as contractors and Operation ABLE staff.
• Supervised the Events & Communications Manager, Alumni Board Chair, and Director of First Impressions.
• Staffed the Board’s Marketing Committee and partnered with the contracted public relations firm; previously staffed the Board's Nominating/Governance Committee.
• Oversaw corporate relations, special events, marketing, communications, and public relations.

Albany, New York, US

• Reported to the President and CEO, served on the senior management team, and led a team of six professionals that annually raised $6 million.
• Staffed the Board of Directors’ Resource Development and Nominating/Governance committees.
• Evaluated operations and implemented an innovative plan focused on community impact and workplace campaign best practices that reversed nearly a decade of revenue decline.
• Delivered hundreds of high-impact presentations about United Way’s mission and goals.
• Led and coached United Way staff on the training and retention of volunteers from more than 100 companies as employee campaign managers leading campaign teams.
• Maintained relationships with a portfolio of individual donors; coached staff to success with theirs.

• Reported to the CEO and served as a senior manager.
• Led a team of three professionals overseeing all aspects of marketing, communications, and development—one professional was promoted, another position was eliminated.
• Staffed the Board of Directors’ Development Committee; recruited and coached members to success with individual giving and special events.
• Completed a $1.6 million capital campaign.
• Developed and executed a plan to triple annual revenue and build long-term sustainability.
• Led expansion of major giving and planned giving; annual fund and individual giving; signature agency events; and grants.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Reported to the Chief Development Officer and served on the senior management team.
• Secured local, regional, and national grants to fill gaps in agency capital and operations funding, from research to initial contact, to cultivation, application, and reporting.
• Fostered and maintained corporate relations, some with substantial engagement programs that included recruiting and retaining long-term volunteers, including GE.
• Helped to establish workforce development, education and training programs for at-risk youth.
• Maintained relationships with a portfolio of institutional donors.

Schenectady, NY, US

• Reported to the Chief Development Officer and served on the senior management team.
• Served as agency spokesperson; oversaw all external agency marketing and communications.
• Led a team of three professionals – one professional was promoted, one position was eliminated.
• Completed a $1.6 million capital campaign and contributed to securing a $10 million DASNY bond.
• Recreated the agency media relations program; oversaw the quadrupling of agency media coverage.
• Contributed to the creation and execution of signature agency events and the quadrupling of the number of corporate partners; built high-impact corporate volunteer programs.

Boston, MA, US

• Served as an agency spokesperson.
• Co-directed pro bono designers, photographers, and colleagues to create and design award-winning communication tools, including website, newsletters, brochures, annual reports, and social media.
• Contributed to public relations and marketing for all major activities and events.

Roxbury, MA, US

• Produced and hosted a local cable television show; designed and edited newsletters.
• Contributed to PR and marketing for a new, signature annual event for more than 4,000 guests.
• Created an agency tour highlighting historical architecture and community impact.

Boston, MA, US

• Helped to secure a $300,000 grant to support the MGH/Timilty Project.
• Coordinated logistics for the mentoring program.

Boston, MA, US

• Contributed to research comparing laparoscopic and open cholecystectomy outcomes at MGH.
• Provided research assistance in other areas as directed.

Masters Degree, Nonprofit Management, Healthcare Concentration

Certificate And Program Advisory Member, Women In Leadership

Ba, Sociology, Law Medicine & Health

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