Megan Yankee Email and Phone Number

Responsible for leading the organizations fundraising and advocacy efforts with individual donors, corporations, foundations, and ticket holders. Skilled at crafting major gift proposals and agreements. Develops and implements the annual operating budget of the organization. Ensures that the organization achieves or exceeds its long and short-term goals. Serves as the public representative of the Stulberg Competition and advocates the organizations programs throughout the community. Provides leadership and impetus to the staff and board. Responsible and accountable for all aspects of the Stulberg’s management and administrative operations including: implementing the strategic plan, fundraising, marketing, communications, administration, budgeting and financial management, event planning, educational programs, and outreach to the community.Generated increased donations, sponsorships, and grant amounts.Identifies and cultivates major donors to successfully secure leadership gifts. Elevated new and existing events to increase engagement and support. Activities include engaging strong community partners for innovative collaborations, increasing Competition prize amounts to attract potential applicants and elevate the pool of candidates, positive changes to event structure to maximize audience experience, increase engagement on social media platforms. Successfully guided the organization through the global pandemic.Increased organizational staffing in a meaningful and sustainable way.Established new performance collaborative partnerships both locally and nationally.Generates all income for the organization to meet and exceed set budget goals. Including expanding donor relationships nationally to support the Competition, increasing sponsorship support with new and existing funding partners.

Responsible for planning, coordinating, and implementing strategies to develop donors and contributions to the organization. Successfully led annual fund campaigns, multiple fundraisers, and increased donor engagement. Implemented new strategies for donor tracking and management and headed the development and implementation of a new website. Surpassed set yearly fundraising goals in all campaigns and fundraisers. Established new communications and engagement with donors.Collaborated with staff and volunteers to plan, direct and coordinate fundraising activities which raised six figures.Built relationships with community stakeholders to advance the mission, fundraising goals, and development growth.

Primarily responsible for leading all marketing, digital, content, and social media strategies for 7 camps across the state of Michigan. Planned, developed, wrote, and supervised production of Cub Camping campaigns and marketing material statewide. Served as Outdoor Adventures Representative for the Michigan Crossroads Council’s marketing department. Promoted opportunities for non-scouting groups by actively networking and fostering relationships with surrounding communities. Facilitated collaboration with community members and leaders to establish new partnerships. Influenced scouting professionals, volunteers, and community leaders to support and participate in select innovation projects obtained through donor development and grant writing.Raised funds via grants, personal solicitation, annual ask and special events.Increased volunteer engagement while cultivating a strong volunteer force which had never participated in scouting before.Guided volunteers to increase revenues. Maintained regular communications with patrons and the community and led several community engagement events.Fostered relationships with new community partners and increased business at camp properties. Grew camp attendance in 2017 by 5%, which was the first increase since 2014.

Managed a portfolio of donors and prospects, and actively cultivated, solicited, closed, and stewarded gifts to support initiatives. Provided direction and project support in fund development, reporting to funders on grant funded projects. Established and maintained timelines for various fundraising activities to ensure strategic plans and critical fundraising initiatives carried out in a timely fashion. Coordinated mail and web appeals, corporate and individual donor cultivation and stewardship, donor communication, prospect research and special events. Built annual fundraising plans and a monthly giving program. Partnered with the Executive Director, Development Director and other staff to determine funding priorities and initiate a capital campaign.Handled grant management by researching opportunities and writing proposals in a clear and compelling manner. Solicited large national corporations for sponsorship support.

Planned and managed all aspects of BCSO concert events through retaining talent, negotiating contracts, securing venues, building and managing budgets, and arranging travel. Researched potential funders, wrote grant proposals, planned and executed donor benefits and events, and assisted in donor relations. Managed a variety complex projects from inception to completion. Handled a wide range of HR functions and resolved personnel issues for over 55 employees.

Collaborated daily with internal staff, clients and vendors to successfully achieve over 200 events on an annual basis for an audience base ranging from 10 to 2000 attendees. Directed comprehensive program needs for on- and off-site events and activities. Provided onsite event execution, managing all aspects of event coordination. Seamlessly coordinated all musician and staff travel to events locally, nationally and internationally.

Developed print materials for the organization—brochures, program books, flyers, posters, postcards and invitations—and coordinated all email marketing campaigns. Cultivated and managed relationships with a portfolio of donors including individual donors, foundations and corporate funders. Maintained organization’s website and provided updates as needed.