Louie Sawi Email & Phone Number

New York, United States

Manage the Let NY Vote coalition through engagement with coalition members, recruitment of new members, coordinating lobbying activities, and external communications.

New York City Metropolitan Area

• Tracking all gifts, financial and in-kind, and coordinating acknowledgement and receipts. Leading in creation of fundraising pages to create streamlined giving experiences across campaigns, events, and crowdfunding..
• Helped raise over $908,000 from a fundraising Gala Event.
• Provided logistical support to help Yamba Malawi's team raise over $27,000 at the 2022 TCS NYC Marathon.

Queens, New York, United States

• Developed recruiting plan allowing Central Queens, NYC office recruit thousands of applicants throughout the Area Census Office (ACO) territory. Coordinated with Partnership to ensure that the initial locations for MQA.
• Collaborated with 16 NYC census offices to assign and schedule CRRs for MQA events.
• Provided logistical support to some of the 11,861 NYC MQA events, the nation’s highest.
• Trained and supervised nine Census Response Representatives (CRRs) to help local residents complete census questionnaire at Mobile Questionnaire Assistance (MQA) events throughout Central Queens, NYC.

Queens, New York, United States

• Assisted Recruiting Manager with day-to-day activities associated with managing and carrying out recruiting operations to work for the U.S. 2020 Census campaign. Supported Recruiting Manager in assigning RAs to.
• Oriented seven Recruiting Assistants (RA) about the U.S. Census Bureau and trains them their assigned tasks.

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborated with Co-Executive Directors and other CACF team members on campaigns. Supported and coordinated with advocacy driven coalition building work in the areas such as health, budget advocacy, youth services.
• Planned Asian Pacific American State Advocacy Day with 16 participants meeting offices of 20 NY state legislators.
• Convened 8 health advocate agencies (Project CHARGE) to learn and exchange information about ongoing issue and policy advocacy campaigns and create common policy agenda.
• Wrote public testimony, quotes, and memoranda
• Provided support for colleagues that supervised social events and advocacy day events.
• Spoke at press conferences, testified several times at New York City Hall around health equity, and led 14 legislative meetings in district offices of state legislators and city council members.

Greater New York City Area

• Worked closely with President and Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship to support fundraising needs of PILnet. Supported the Development Team to devise and implement strategy for cultivation and stewardship of.
• Coordinated with Development Team to help plan panel event featuring world-renowned economist Jeffrey Sachs.
• Drafted and obtained $70,000 grant for PILnet fellow.

Greater New York City Area

• Contributed to mobilization of 970 fast food workers into a community organization that protects and enforces workers’ rights in NYC’s fast food restaurants, and advocates for improvements in workplace and communities.
• Organized two fast food shops to form community organization committees.
• Educated fast food workers about the new higher minimum wage and fair work week schedule laws.

Greater New York City Area

• Collaborated with five The New School students to conceptualize and create 65-page advocacy packet, containing tools and training modules, to develop and strengthen interpersonal, communication, and social media skills.
• Researched and provided content on the fundamentals and tactics of direct action organizing.
• Edited and formatted text and images of advocacy packet on Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.
• Inspired client to host side event promoting RIV at 16th Session of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, attended by 25 delegates.
• Presented advocacy packet to The New School’s Milano School faculty and students.
• Facilitated Milano School accreditation to register for UN Secretariat sessions, symposiums, conferences, and other events.

Greater New York City Area

• Participated with three The New School students to support UNDP in establishing dashboard of indicators on the Policy & Institutional Coherence for Migration and Development project. Indicators included policies and.
• Analyzed and weighed 50 and 66 indicators of policy inputs and outputs, respectively, from participating countries of Germany, Portugal, Serbia, Kenya, Trinidad and Tobago, and the Philippines.
• Discovered that European Union member participating nations provided more policies and laws favoring migrants than global south participating countries.

Greater New York City Area

• Prospect researched foundations and charitable organizations for funding at Foundation Center. Drafted grant proposals and edited articles for Harlem Lacrosse’s (HL) Squarespace website, Emma email and PDF newsletters.
• Mobilized 15 volunteers from volunteer websites and college job fairs to mentor 120+ HL student-athletes at after-school lacrosse practices and tutoring.
• Assembled life skills curriculum facilitated by Barnard College Residential Assistants to 35 HL student-athletes.
• Planned leadership development activities for 40 - 50 HL student-athletes to volunteer at Citymeals-On-Wheels and Food Bank.
• Utilized Adobe Photoshop and InDesign to edit content on girls’ program report, impressing anonymous donor to contribute $50,000 to HL.
• Designed items' catalog with Adobe Photoshop and InDesign for silent auction that raised over $40,000.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

Assessed and scored state standard of learning exams for mentally challenged public school students.

Malawi, Africa

• Documented child check-ups at hospital and outreach clinics. Facilitated interactive workshops with role-playing activities that addressed HIV/AIDS prevention, nutrition, water and sanitation, and hygiene for 100.
• Trained village development committee of seven in project design, management skills, and grant proposal writing to draft, acquire, and manage USAID grant renovating outreach health clinic.
• Village development committee won $4,665 grant from USAID, and renovated outreach health clinic serving 8,000 community members.
• Wrote, obtained, and executed $50 grant project building eight pit latrines serving 1,610 primary school students.
• Collaborated with seven health surveillance assistants to coordinate village-wide campaign protecting children under age of five from malaria-carrying mosquitoes and achieved goal of distributing insecticide mosquito.
• Acted as liaison between 25 village female entrepreneurs and USAID's Citizen Network for Foreign Affairs for former to receive business management training and capital grant from latter to boost economic livelihood and.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

Evaluated student responses to open-ended questions and scored according to company standard grading system.

Norfolk, Virginia

• Coordinated canvassing efforts and outreach for Barack Obama’s 2008 U.S. Presidential Campaign.
• Canvassed over 500 households by communicating Barack Obama's platform to voters.
• Conducted 5 workshops on effective canvassing techniques for 10 colleagues.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

• Led canvassing office of Fund for the Public Interest's Community Voter's Project that registered new minority voters. Conducted clerical and administrative procedures that included voter registration record-keeping.
• Supervised diverse staff of 25 that registered over 16,000 minority voters in cities of Virginia Beach and Chesapeake.
• Engaged community members about low-income neighborhood issues and registered over 1.000 new voters.
• Recruited and trained 15 new canvassers on improving their assertiveness, communication, persistence, and persuasion skills to register new voters.
• Established and fostered relationships with 10 corporate businesses in order to host voter registration drives at their sites.

Virginia Beach, Virginia

• Identified and fulfilled customers’ needs for apparel and accessories. Enacted store checks in-store and over the phone, accomplished merchandise recovery duties prior to and after store business hours and processed.
• Bested as third top salesperson at Virginia Beach location in 2007, generating profits of $124,593.

Norfolk, Virginia Area

Provided information on university services and activities to students and guests. Encouraged exploration and participation in campus and Norfolk community activities. Carried out word-processing and data-entry as needed.

Master Of Arts - Ma, International Relations And Affairs, 3.64

Activities and Societies: The New School DREAM Team

Bachelor Of Science - Bs, Political Science And Sociology

Activities and Societies: Asian Pacific Islander American Student Union, Filipino American Student Association, Filipino Intercollegiate.