Michael Arlen Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

Houston, Texas, United States

• Manage a staff of 18 full-time employees and 76 contract employees.
• Administer annual budget of $2.9 million with effective controls to prevent overages, minimize burn rate, and support sustainable objectives.
• Lead all fundraising efforts, including annual fundraising initiatives and special events. Raised more than $1.3 million from individual donors, corporations, foundations, and government grants in the most recent.
• Provide leadership to the executive team, enhancing operational and organizational efficiencies, including rigorous auditing procedures, new anti-harassment and anti-retaliation policies, and greater health insurance.
• Supervise day-to-day operations of all departments, including finance, marketing and communications, development, and patron services.
• Hired an Artistic Inclusion and Community Engagement Director to lead equity, diversity, and inclusion initiatives ensuring that 50% of all new hires in 2021 and 2022 were individuals representing Black, Indigenous.

Houston, Texas Area

• Second in command and operations of the Symphony’s nine person individual giving team. Developed and executed a comprehensive annual giving strategy that generated support from more than 4,000 donors per year with a.
• Developed and executed comprehensive annual giving strategies focused on major gifts and individuals contributing more than $5,000 annually.
• Led all individual giving annual fund activities across multiple channels, including direct mail, online, and personal solicitations.
• Supervised $5.5 million raised in individual donations in 2018, contributing to an annual fund total of more than $11 million.
• Increased donor portfolio contributions to $500,000 in 2019, a 32% increase over the previous year.
• Managed portfolio of more than 100 donors who contributed $381,000 in 2018.

Greater New York City Area

• Engineered advocacy and legislative outreach in New York State and enhanced awareness and visibility of ADL initiatives, including the fight for civil rights and equality. Lobbied prominent leaders and elected.
• Engineered advocacy strategy and legislative outreach in New York State.
• Enhanced awareness and visibility of ADL initiatives which impacted municipal, state, and federal governments by lobbying prominent community leaders and elected officials.
• Aided in annual $6.4 million fundraising campaign and cultivated relationships with board members and key donors.
• Coordinated anti-terrorism and anti-extremist training for high-ranking law enforcement personnel from federal and state agencies, including FBI, NYPD, and New York State Police

Houston, Texas

• Drafted pretrial motions in catastrophic injury cases.
• Researched and authored memorandums of law on matters such as punitive damages, burdens of proof, elements of damages, joinder of parties, and severance of causes.
• Prepared deposition testimony in preparation for trial, organized pleading files, and created timelines from testimony and other evidence to be used as trial exhibits.

Houston, Texas

• Conducted discovery to determine liability for the operation, installation, and environmental impact of faulty underground storage tanks at service stations across the nation.
• Analyzed a high volume of data utilized in mass litigation involving hundreds of millions of dollars.
• Promoted to Quality Control supervising discovery for executing my duties with extreme accuracy and efficiency.

Washington, D.C.

• Executed extensive legal research in cases involving vast amounts of corporate fraud.
• Created analysis that assisted senior partners in understanding facts and financial nuances of cases.

Washington, D.C.

• Coordinated fundraiser responsible for 28% of AIPAC’s annual budget.
• Engaged in all facets of donor outreach including digital and direct mail fundraising.

Juris Doctor, Law

Summer Study Abroad Program (Istanbul, Turkey) Legal Clerkships • Seth Ellerin, Attorney at Law - 2010-2011 • Dallas County Public.

Bachelor Of Arts, Political Science/Jewish Studies

Activities and Societies: • Dean’s List • Honor Student • Indiana Israel Public Affairs Committee – Campus Political CoordinatorHistory &.