Served as Acting President while CCA's President & CEO was on sabbatical for three months. Managed all finance, administrative, & personnel issues, Board relations, fundraising, and organizational decision-making. Planning and executing Board of Directors quarterly meetings, overseeing annual audit process, and directing Strategic Planning initiative.

Strategic advice and technical assistance to organizations nationwide.

Fundraising and communications director, and leadership team member for an agency providing mental health and support services for victims of abuse and trauma; joint member of CSUN Development department; launched new fundraising initiative through the Covid-19 pandemic. Liaised between agency and University; oversaw all unrestricted fundraising efforts and donor management.Utilized innovative methods to overcome barriers to in-person meetings and events. Scripted and produced a detailed virtual tour of the agency for use in donor outreach and events. Wrote and stewarded successful grant proposals to foundation, corporate, and government funding sources, including responding to emergency opportunities available due to the public health crisis. Developed successful $1 million proposal for a Federal Community Project grant to address the post-pandemic mental health needs of children.

Member of Executive Leadership team for statewide political advocacy organization, raising 501(c)(4), 501(c)(3), and PAC contributions. Responsible for raising $2.5 million combined budget. Facilitated transition from outdated in-house phone canvass model and led development of a $700,000 recurring donor program. Built successful direct mail fundraising program that netted over $100,000 in its first year. Ensured a 71% donor retention rate among major donors and membership. Executed highly popular high-profile events in both Northern and Southern California, including galas and house parties. Responsible for Board relationships and stewarding five- and six-figure donor relationships.-Establish and maintain relationships with Board and Advisory Council members, providing support and supervision of donor solicitations, including maintaining regular communications, providing solicitation materials, and managing Board committees. Work closely with CEO, Political Director, and other staff to steward donor relationships, maintain annual solicitation plan, and identify and cultivate prospective donors. Develop messaging and collateral materials for major donors and event promotion.

Major donor program and events management, initially in Southern California with increasing responsibility for Northern California through organizational transitions.-Manage major donor contributions totaling more than $900,000; ensure comprehensive donor and gift management through all aspects of cultivation, solicitation, and stewardship.-Oversaw an 8% increase major donor gifts in FY 2015. -Produce two annual gala events per year with attendance of more than 200 guests, managing allfundraising, logistics and leadership of interdepartmental staff team.-Stage successful donor cultivation events, 2-3 per year statewide.

Hired as organization’s first full-time development professional; responsible for individual and major giving, events, marketing and communications.-Increased individual giving by more than 17% over four years.-Increased revenue from annual fundraising event by more than 25% and created organization’s first donor cultivation events.-Implemented organization’s first comprehensive donor management database and established online giving capabilities.-Grew email mailing list by 1700%; email campaigns had an average open rate of more than 20%; designed organization logo and redesigned website; established organization’s social media presence.

Managed owner/CEO and executives of three companies; supervised artists and production staff as needed.-Managed complex and exclusive relationships with top-level industry executives and artists.-Wrote television, film, and video treatments, script synopses, marketing materials, and correspondence; reviewed and summarized scripts and materials.-Developed and managed manufacturing and sales budget for newly-launched apparel line.-Produced theatrical premiere event for feature film.

As the sole development officer for the organization, wrote and managed grant proposals and reports, managed individual giving, created constituent newsletter, collateral marketing materials and press releases.-Increased individual giving by 15%.-Produced donor cultivation events that generated new major foundation and corporate support for organization.-Converted donor records to CRM database format.

As a senior member of a large development staff, managed all corporate, foundation, and government grant proposals and reports, worked with team on major fundraising campaigns.-Coordinated upgrade of donor database and implementation of prospect tracking system; trained newstaff on database software.-Developed grant management system integrated with donor management software.-Generated an average of ten grant proposals per month.-Co-produced first annual gala fundraising event.

Initially a single fundraising position, ultimately responsible for hiring, training and supervising two full-time subordinate positions; leadership position within organization’s marketing department, overseeing all grantwriting and individual fundraising functions.-Doubled the number of individual donors and managed fundraising campaigns that contributed to multi-year revenue surpluses at organization with $2.8 million budget.-Tripled staff of Development department.-Instituted tracking, coding, and metrics for donation records.-Introduced thank-you letter reply envelope program that generated $10,000 in new revenue in first sixmonths.-Served on Board of Directors of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Austin, TX, Chapter.