Melody Rooshen Email & Phone Number

Building equitable grantmaking in the intersects of arts + culture for racial and social justice , community organizing + power building + and movement building, fostering inclusive economic models, and capacity building with a racial equity lens.

Oakland, California

San Francisco, California

-Manage day of logistics for the best leadership candidate care experience; not limited to catered lunches, tours, and personalized greets.-Coordinate interview process from beginning to end including scheduling phone interviews, onsites, and feedback sessions for diverse leadership candidates. -Manage processing of travel, hotel, car service, candidate reimbursements, and professional expenses.-Partner with recruiting team and hiring managers to develop training Quips of Facebook’s policies and best practices to use for training new hires on pipeline management.

Oakland, Ca

-Managed all grant applications for corporate and private foundations. -Maintained relationships with key members of the community, including donors, strategic partners, board members, and advisory council members.-Strategized, planned, and executed small cultivation events and larger solicitation events for 500+ guests across the country.-Managed and created content for three annual major fundraising campaigns including organization’s largest annual campaign that generates 25% percent of overall annual goals.

-Planned and coordinated logistics for internal/external webinars & trainings, board meetings, staff retreats, coalition calls, development committee meetings, and congressional briefings.-Led organizational data migration from iContact to Salesforce and maintained new database; including grants, events, individual donors, coalition partners and organizations management. Monitored and managed database to ensure data integrity.-Implemented coding to track revenue progress and attendance from annual campaigns, events, and grants. -Completed special projects (ie community outreach efforts for educational seminars, webinars, and donor meetings) as needed by Executive Director.

San Francisco, California

-Attained and exceeded required sales goals on a consistent basis at an average rate of 107% to 155% while maintaining excellent customer service record. -Partnered with Yelp Cares Foundation in finding volunteer projects for the sales team.

Greater Jakarta Area, Indonesia

Riverside, California

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), History Middle East Concentration

Foreign Policy And International Affairs In The Mena Region

Internship in a Congressional office on Capitol Hill Thesis: Analysis of the process and methodology of the Iranian negotiating style.