Michael Griesi Email & Phone Number

Boston, MA, US

Hanover, NH

• Directed ambitious comprehensive campaigns for educational institutions ranging from $30MM to $75MM.
• Clients achieved between 300% and 500% increases over their 3-year-average fundraising run rate under management in Fiscal Year 2023.
• Built prospect pipelines, developed campaign priorities and case statements, designed campaign systems, and counseled on bespoke prospect strategy.

Boston, Massachusetts, United States

• Managed a portfolio of the top 100 institutional prospects in partnership with the Senior Vice President for Advancement. Created and executed on strategies that resulted in nine-figure commitments for Dartmouth each.
• Developed elite, bespoke stewardship for transformational gifts and lead efforts to develop stewardship for new institutional priorities.
• Was a key partner in the management of a high-performing Principal Gifts department. Led biweekly team meetings with the Senior Philanthropic Advisors towards achieving revenue goals.

Hanover, NH

• Manage portfolio of 150 class volunteers and advise on best practices to engage, cultivate, and secure support from classmates.
• Develop benchmarking for volunteer engagement via the Class Activity Report - a yearly tool maintained by class volunteers – that measures their work, benchmarks against other classes, and garners shareable best.

Hanover, NH

• Manage goal-setting, outreach strategy, and stewardship for Principal Giving prospects in the Executive Director of Leadership Giving’s portfolio.
• Perform analyses on Leadership Giving portfolios and proposal pipelines. Employ analyses to focus frontline officers towards meeting restricted/unrestricted fundraising goals, all while building pipeline for.
• Pioneer a method of analyzing portfolio penetration for alumni prospects used to identify the gaps in outreach to key prospects.