Served in multiple capacities as the lead of a small nonprofit: HR, accounts payable and receivable, database manager, facilities, compliance, and marketing/communications.

- Oversaw fund development team of 7 with all fundraising efforts, including events, grant writing, federal, state, and county RFPs, donor campaigns, donor events, corporate sponsorship, planned giving, third-party events, donor database, and volunteer management program. Annual budget: $10-12 million. - Managed a two-year, $5 million private fund campaign, including donor acquisition and campaign communications. - Advocated for youth workforce with municipal, state, and federal officials and civic leaders and represented organization with community partners and at industry events.- Directed all marketing and public relations activities, including promotion of services, website, electronic communications, print materials, social media, paid media, and crisis communication and managed brand standards. - Designed and implemented annual marketing/communications and donor fund development plans and created three-year strategic plan- Served on the senior leadership team and as staff liaison to the board’s Stewardship Committee. Key Achievements - Implemented donor stewardship and donor engagement program. Individual giving increased by 50%. - - Formalized a planned giving program. - Standardized brand guidelines and redesigned the website and all marketing materials. - Recruited and trained four employees to professionalize the organization’s marketing and development functions. - Oversaw a public awareness campaign with paid media on television, radio, business publication, and digital platforms and earned media that led to the launch of the $5 million campaign. - Led the standardization of donor management in Salesforce, including grants management.- Secured organization’s first national foundation grant from the NBA Foundation for $500,000 and largest private gift of $2.75 million. Certification: Planned Giving: Getting the Proper Start, The Fund Raising School at the Indiana University Family School of Philanthropy, December 2021

Directed all activities of the foundation, which funds teacher, student, and administrative projects for the Lakewood City Schools and manages relations with 40,000+ alumni. Oversaw and budgeted for an $1.8 million endowment and $250,000 general fund.

Clients: DC Capital Pride (sponsorship, marketing, fundraising, public relations), one of the largest Pride celebrations in the United States; Fairmount Center for the Arts (marketing, public relations).