Mara Clarke Email & Phone Number

Amsterdam

Co-Founder of charity providing funding, infrastructure and ensuring sustainability for the grassroots activists who are helping people access abortions across Europe.

Everywhere

On a short break

United Kingdom

Founder and employee of charity that provides practical information, financial assistance and accommodation for women and pregnant people travelling from Ireland, N Ireland, Isle of Man, Malta, Gibraltar and Poland access safe abortions. • Recruitment, training, and management of 80+ remotely based volunteers• Implemented grassroots fundraising and awareness-raising campaigns across multiple platforms• Researched and wrote grant proposals• Developed and managed relationships with volunteers, abortion providers, family planning agencies and other stakeholders and signposting organisations in the UK, Ireland, Isle of Man, Malta, Gibraltar, Germany, Poland, The Netherlands and elsewhere• Grew organisation from grassroots, all volunteer group to robust small charity with stable funding and paid employees.• Other responsibilities included fundraising (individual giving and grant writing), serving as the organisation's spokesperson, marketing and communications.

Home Based

Contract copy writing, editing and quality assurance projects for companies and not for profit organisations including:Swedish Workplace HIV/AIDS Programme (SWHAP)Contracted to assist with the writing and editing of the annual report for HIV/AIDS awareness programme working with companies based in Sub-Saharan and Eastern Africa.Paulas Byrå (Swedish PR Firm)Various writing and editing projects including annual reports for TeliaSonera (Swedish Telecoms company) and other Swedish companies. Praised for attention to detail, proactive work methods, and ability to capture the correct "voice" for the audiences and organisations involved.AcadeMediaVarious writing and editing projects for education company providing early years through continuing education programmes in Sweden, Norway and Germany.

London

Freelance grantwriter for US-based sexual and reproductive health education charity. that uses writing and filmmaking to foster self-expression, youth leadership and advocacy in underserved teens. Grants written to regional, national, and subject specific grantmaking organisations. Successful grant proposals brought in excess of $3 million. Also responsible for re-applications and reporting on grants received to funding organisations.

London, United Kingdom

Returned to the GLA to relaunch TEAM LONDON, the Mayor of London's action plan for volunteering, and to help manage Go Local, an event for 30,000 people to celebrate the volunteering around London during and after the 2012 Olympics.

London

Project manager on Team London, the Mayor of London’s volunteering initiative. Media and marketing campaigns netted an average of 40 pieces of media coverage per month in both national and local outlets; website received more than 235,000 visitors in first year of launch; outreach to third sector, community and grassroots organisations resulted in take up of Team London volunteering opportunities by thousands of volunteers. Responsibilities included:• First point of contact for organisations and individuals looking to get involved• Outreach to and relationship management with third sector organisations across Greater London• Creation of the Team London Service Plan and Annual Report• Management and creation of web content & all social media • Coordination of MarComms activities and reward & recognition programme

New York, Ny

Haven is a grassroots volunteer organisation in New York City providing support to low-income women. During my tenure we doubled the number of clients served and increased the number of volunteers. Responsibilities included:• Volunteer recruitment and training• Maintaining relationships with women’s clinics and funds in several states• Materials development

New York

NYLAG is a not-for-profit law office providing free civil legal services to low income New Yorkers. Originated position and created department with limited resources. Increased media coverage credited with, amongst other things, organisation’s receipt of unprompted $100,000 donation.

Nine month contract to manage the US launch of this high tech company that designs, develops, manufactures and markets leading data communications products for trusted Unified Communications. Responsible for media, branding and outreach resulting in positive coverage in trade magazines and analyst reports.

New

GCI was one of the top ten PR consultancies in the world. Specialised in branding workshops with C-level executives and research reports on media, industry and market trends. Ran daily operations of several accounts, kept clients happy and projects on deadline and on budget. Clients included Goldman Sachs, New York Times Digital, GiftCertificates.com, Siemens Business Services.

New York, Ny

Fleishman Hillard is a leading global PR and marketing agency. Authored several reports detailing media, analyst and customer opinions on clients and competitors. Clients included ExxonMobil Chemical, KPMG, Lockheed Martin, United Airlines.

Greater Boston Area

Helped coordinate a prepared food rescue programme, through which prepared unserved food was collected from hotels, function halls, restaurants, universities and other locations and delivered to homeless shelters and women’s refuges.

Ba, English

One Year Arts Ed