Michelle Bishop Email & Phone Number

New York

Develop brand recognition for one of New York City's premier fiber arts organizations. Work with museums and galleries to launch and curate exhibitions, lecture series and collaborative opportunities with LeRoy Neiman Art Center-Arts Horizon, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Morris-Jumel Mansion, Museum of the City of New York, and New York State Museum in Albany. Coordinate art acquisitions with Colgate Palmolive Company and The City College of New York along with a host of private collectors.Provide technical support to artists as well as further needle art construction through group instruction for individuals, academic programs and public schools.

New York, Ny

Provide IT and marketing services to aid individuals and small businesses with their professional development and business model. Special event fundraising management services to non-profit organizations including prospect development, database management, corporate and individual solicitation, grant research, public relations and brand development and design.

Developed technology procedures, fundraising and marketing strategies for overall company operations to support the needs of 30 clients. Responsibilities included: LAN maintenance with 20 users; analyzed performance of network to determine upgrade of hardware and software; designed, formatted and manipulated Microsoft Access databases for end users; provided instruction in logical criteria for information maintenance; automated manually driven operations and train staff on usage of system and equipment; liaison between company and network integration team. Devised and implemented fundraising and marketing plans to serve the needs of clients and increase donor contributions on yearly basis. Through various forms of solicitation, individual accounts exceed $4 million in proceeds. Client portfolio includes, Jazz at Lincoln Center, Entertainment Industry Foundation, Federation of Protestant Welfare Agencies, New York Knicks 50th Birthday Bash, Black Enterprise 25th Anniversary and Entrepreneurs Conference.

Structured system procedures for maintenance of donations, solicitation materials and advocacy efforts for 70 member agencies. Reconciled technology problems and implemented new procedures; trained end users; researched software and appropriate hardware; archivist for agencies data; disseminated and designed communications and promotional information; organized special events and fund raising campaigns; developed relationships with media and other appropriate external groups and organizations to enhance marketing capabilities; created resource bank for member agencies; received and responded to inquiries from member agencies and general public.

Bba, Management Information Systems

Certificate E-Institute, Community Development

Through the School of Industrial and Labor I participated in the executive development program for arts organizations.