Maggie Beldecos (She/Her) Email & Phone Number

• Steward all foundation, government, corporate, and individual donors
• Maintain all active grants including writing proposals, reports, and budgets to ensure growth and compliance
• Manage all government funding streams including writing proposals, reports, and budgets to ensure growth and compliance
• Lead annual budget and planning preparation in coordination with the Accountant, the Executive Director, and Board Treasurer
• Oversee fiscal and human resource procedures; support Executive Director in implementation of policies and procedures
• Manage Accountant and oversee all financial reporting duties of organization, including processing payroll and preparing monthly financial reports for Executive Director and Board Treasurer

7800 Susquehanna Street

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States

• Serve as a member of a highly engaged Board for Pittsburgh’s only crisis nursery
• Support operations planning, most recently in adapting programs in response to COVID-19 pandemic
• Assist in fundraising as Chair of the Development Committee, most recently to secure emergency relief due to the pandemic
• Advocate in the broader community for the organization and the families it serves

Responsible for raising $3 million with a team of five direct reports, including the identification, solicitation, cultivation, and retention of corporate donorsResearch new funder opportunities. Manage and execute appropriate strategies for successful solicitation of new prospectsDevelop and oversee new, as well as established, corporate and community.

Directly supervised the staff, volunteers, and activities of the Library in Your Neighborhood, Community, and School (LYNCS) teamCoordinated the first, system-wide outreach project to the Allegheny County Jail, in which 49 Library staff served approximately 1,400 participants per year; received a $10,000 grant from Jail to continue projectPlanned and.

Facilitated board meetings and oversaw a staff of five, a volunteer pool of 60, and an operating budget of $136,000Partnered with other children’s organizations, businesses, and community leaders in various projects and eventsImplemented social networking functions for both fundraising and outreach opportunitiesActed as a spokesperson for the organization.

• Led all library activities for a medium security prison housing 200 inmates; Supervise a staff of five library workers
• Selected, catalogued, classified and maintained the collection as well as created monthly statistical reports
• Planned and led library programming including a book club, poetry workshop, regular art competitions, and a monthly newsletter
• Established and maintained an interlibrary loan program with the Brampton Public Library and a business plan exchange with the Brampton Business Enterprise

• Analyzed library science journals to determine and define research instruments
• Established controlled vocabulary for library science instruments using Medical Subject Heading (MeSH) terms and the APA Psychology Thesaurus

• Assisted patrons with resume and cover letter writing
• Provided instruction for online job database searching
• Recorded and compiled department statistics
• Updated and edited the JCEC website using HTML and Dreamweaver

• Handled reference questions and circulation duties
• Moderated “The Political Café” a political book club
• Developed, promoted and instructed computer classes
• Provided basic library instruction tutorials for patrons of all ages

• Researched issues surrounding handgun violence in Pittsburgh
• Collaborated with the Philadelphia office to lobby for gun safety legislation in Harrisburg

Mls, Library Science

Activities and Societies: Founding Member and Business Manager, the University of Pittsburgh Chapter of the Progressive Librarians Guild.

Ba, English, Political Science

Activities and Societies: Varsity Field Hockey, Varsity Lacrosse, Tutor at Langston Middle School, GED Tutor at Lorain County Adult Career.

Education record