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San Francisco, California, United States

San Francisco, California, United States

Manage a portfolio of 20+ arts and education focused Donor Advised Funds with individual, family and corporate partners, creating grant making programs, and administering grants to domestic and international organizations.Manage donor relationships for all advised funds, creating and ensuring annual grant making budgets of over $6 million.Supports Tides' larger initiatives in educational and environmental justice, developing operational plans with legal and finance departments to ensure grant making goals are met.Support the grants, legal and finance teams in grants administration ensuring that grants are legallycompliant, and requirements are clear and achievable for grantees.

San Francisco Bay Area

Managed solicitation of corporate sponsors, individual donors and foundation supporters, working with Development team to acquire and maintain partnerships for the Mill Valley Film Festival, DocLands Documentary Film Festival, and the Christopher B. Smith Rafael Film Center, meeting and exceeding our annual goal of $4 million.Worked with international consulates and cultural institutes to ensure their programmatic support annually.Created annual grant and impact reports for donor partners, ensuring accurate information, collaborating cross departmentally for statistics and insights.Oversaw all aspects of Development administration, including managing promotional campaign outreach, managing Salesforce and Raiser's Edge donor databases.

San Francisco Bay Area

Worked with Mill Valley Film Festival sponsors to ensure successful sponsorship activation at Festivalvenues.Served as liaison between sponsors and other Festival departments, to guarantee correct implementationof sponsor benefits.Developed and maintained shared documents with sponsor requests, dates, and details of activations.Oversaw volunteers and logistical staff to manage tasks.

San Francisco, California, United States

Developed, secured and tracked fulfillment of community partnerships, and collaborated with Marketing Coordinator to seek out and implement cross-promotional opportunities.Wrote promotional copy for media sponsors, community partners, co- presenters, and social media.Solicited and acquired onscreen ad sales, and oversaw relaying artwork between external sponsors and the SFFILM Communications department.Reached out to potential SFFILM collateral distributors and managed the delivery of promotional materials.

San Francisco, California, United States

Researched, solicited and monitored sponsorship, in-kind donations, and foundation grants for Frameline38.Exceeded sponsorship goals by acquiring new hotel partners and an exclusive Festival liquor sponsor.Managed operation of the sponsorship program, including deliverables, on site activations, sponsor and donor benefits and hospitality during Frameline38.Supported events and operations teams by securing in-kind donations from high level sponsors, including event venues, hotels, wine, liquor and catering partners.

San Francisco, California, United States

Oversaw logistics and production of Frameline37 Film Festival, supporting Development, Marketing, andProgramming departments in administrative and operational tasks.Hired and supervised Theater Operations personnel, including 20 house managers, 5 projectionists, and an Operations Assistant.Worked with Director of Exhibitions to schedule festival films, parties and panels during ten day festivalperiod.Performed administrative duties including data entry, mass mailings, venue and contract reports for festival operations department.

San Francisco, California, United States

Developed successful grant proposals for the non-profit Roxie Theater, San Francisco's longest running community cinema.Generated daily revenue reports for the Roxie Theater's Box Office, working with theater managers tocreate budgets and business models.Assisted with planning and implementing membership drives for the theater, and effectively marketed and sold memberships to customers.Managed theater box office including ticket sales, house management, and coordination of guest artists, vendors and sponsors during special events and film festivals.

San Francisco, California, United States

Solicited and tracked incoming donations, coordinated and proofread mass mailing fundraising campaigns.Coordinated communication for major donors, volunteers and board members of the Alliance HealthProject, and planned monthly meetings for all constituents.Helped plan and execute the Alliance Health Project's annual Art for AIDS Auction, including auctionlayout and donor list, communication with vendors, coordination of volunteers, and review of contracts and legal documents.Managed donated works from San Francisco artists for Art for AIDS and maintained database of over 250artworks for auction catalog.Coordinated promotional events for Art for AIDS with local media and businesses.

Greater Chicago Area

- Performed administrative duties of the Production Office- Assisted with the design and set-up of the theater’s front-of-house space during special events

Chicago, Il

- Created donor information packets for special event and benefit nights at the Gene Siskel Film Center and organized mass mailings to potential donors- Performed administrative duties for the Art Institute's Teacher Resource Center