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Houston, Texas, United States

Louisiana

Works with donors and their professional advisors to help them accomplish charitable objectives. Offers gift planning expertise on topics of wills and beneficiary designations, IRA Qualified Charitable Distributions, Charitable Gift Annuities, Charitable Trusts and more.

Houston, Texas Area

Provided leadership for comprehensive fundraising, marketing and communications programs. Strengthened gift acceptance policies, web and social media presence, gift entry and database management, corporate benefactors and special events. Marketed IRA Qualified Charitable Distributions, wills and beneficiary designation gifts. Documented bequest intentions.

Greater Atlanta Area

Worked with a portfolio of prospects and donors in Texas to provide stewardship of existing gifts, solicit major and planned gifts, and identify and cultivate new prospects. Raised money for national scholarships for the training and formation of new priests and for local initiatives.

Richmond, Tx

Served as lead sales consultant, providing education and customer service to clients for property and casualty, life and health insurance, uncovering liabilities and risk exposure. Made recommendations on products and services.

Pearland, Texas

Provided flute, piano and general music instruction to students of all ages.

Nassau Bay, Texas

Implemented comprehensive fund development, legislative advocacy, marketing, and communications programs for the hospital. Focused on fundraising, advertisements, donor recognition, stewardship, and visibility in the community.

Houston, Texas Area

Assisted alumni and other donors with philanthropy to the university. Developed alumni opportunities to learn about the funding needs of Rice University. Represented the entire university in the Houston metropolitan area and in Texas Hill Country.

Houston, Texas Area

Led a team of employees in strategy and implementation of a fundraising program for Annual Major Gifts of $25K or more from some of Houston’s most prominent community members.

Houston, Texas Area

Assisted donors and alumni of the College of Education with their philanthropy. Organized events, established donor meetings with the dean, created marketing materials, and supervised a development associate. Analyzed scholarship funds available, supported alumni board, developed quarterly newsletter, and created website for planned giving.

Angleton, Tx

Created a new planned giving program and grew the major gifts program. Increased membership in major gifts society and obtained estate plan gifts for organization. Created and organized campaign marketing materials. Made presentations to company groups to solicit for funds.

Louisiana And Texas

Raised $264,000 through multiple fundraising activities for several key organizations in southeastern Louisiana and in Houston and surrounding metro areas. As an independent contactor, marketed services, adhered to ethical fundraising standards and sub-contracted to two grant researchers. Services included special event coordination, grant research and writing and marketing and publicity strategies. Interfaced with non-profit executive directors, staff and key fundraising volunteers to train them in fundraising techniques and relationship building skills. Also provided volunteer job descriptions, timelines, and checklists to facilitate fundraising.

Greater New Orleans Area

Raised $795,000 through annual giving and grants. Created departmental procedures and manuals to ensure correct gift coding, measured the success of direct mail pieces, and ensured timeliness of proposals to maximize funding. Ensured an ongoing stream of support from government, corporate and foundation sources.

Baton Rouge, Louisiana Area

Raised $102,000 through annual giving and special events. Systematically processed donor gifts and ensured timely thank you letters. Ensured professionalism in annual banquet with high profile speakers such as Jack Kemp and Barbara Bush by interacting appropriately with speaker bureaus, speaker personal secretaries and with the Secret Service. Created departmental procedures and manuals.

Odessa/Midland, Texas Area

Provided a variety of services in the human resources department with expediency and accuracy. Created a Wellness Program for the company to reduce self-insurance medical costs. Implemented an Employee Assistance Program.

Bachelor Of The Arts Degree, Psychology

Coursework, Music Education And Performance; Flute And Piano

Coursework, Clinical Psychology Masters