Nakea West Email & Phone Number

Chicago, Illinois, United States

Chicago, IL

Leads prospect research, and grants strategy and management for sector initiatives. Develops and maintains relationships with key funders and prospects, and works with the Vice President of Strategic Partnerships and Resource Development and program staff on the development of annual fundraising planning and goal setting.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsible for developing and implementing overallfundraising strategy, with special focus on increasingrevenue from individual donors at all giving levels. Hiredas Director of Individual Giving; later promoted to.
• Worked with executive team to set goals, and to developand implement fundraising strategy across programs.
• Led foundation proposal development and reporting.
• Coordinated project team meetings around budgetdevelopment and fundraising strategy.
• Planned and organized donor identification strategies.
• Managed executive staff on major donor cultivation.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Responsible for leading the major gift cultivation process on solicitations that involved the executive team of The Leadership Conference.
• Managed the executive team in cultivating and solicitingmajor donors, with a focus on gifts of $25,000 or larger.
• Managed foundation proposal development and reporting.
• Led the mapping of issue areas, defining cases for support,and identifying strategic funding partners.
• Oversaw planning, budgeting, marketing, and execution ofannual gala, annual reception, and other special events.
• Managed outside consultants and vendors.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• The Carol H. Pitchersky Development Fellowship was created in honor of Carol H. Pitchersky, a fundraising pioneer with a passion for advancing civil rights, human rights and civil liberties. She had a steadfast.
• Individual donor acquisition
• Annual fund online and direct mail solicitations
• Major gift cultivation and stewardship
• Grant writing and reporting
• Corporate solicitation

Greater Chicago Area

• Responsible for a multi-million dollar fundraising portfoliocomprised of private, corporate, and government sources.
• Developed and implemented plans to meet annualoperating and capital goals.
• Researched and identified prospective funders.
• Maintained donor database.
• Managed grant proposal and reporting calendars.
• Drafted proposals and reports in collaboration withprogram staff to support general operations, specialprojects, and a variety of program areas.* Secured $2.5 million in new grant commitments in 2004.* Oversaw.

Greater Chicago Area

• Acted as support staff for the Vice President of Lending, three loan officers, a loan analyst and the Closing and Escrow Services department.
• Managed scheduling of executive staff.
• Created presentations detailing the loan program, and financial analysis of the current loan portfolio.
• Ensured compliance and reporting on state of loans and both department and organization policy.
• Maintained the Shared Information Database (SID).

Conducted research; performed statistical survey analysis and compiled narrative reports; researched and edited GAP Report (a 10-year assessment of racial inequities in Chicago); assisted with website construction; spearheaded logic model creation and analysis; developed and co-presented seminars on criminal victims’ assistance program; researched and.