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Greater Chicago Area

Delta Institute is a nonprofit that collaborates with communities to solve complex environmental challenges across the Midwest.• Provide strategic leadership and vision to Delta's development/communications team and organization• Extensively supports the programmatic initiatives by working closely with the programmatic staff to collaboratively assess the current and future focus areas for earned, government, and foundation funding• Assist in developing funding concepts and funding strategies to meet Delta's impact objectives• Lead individual giving campaigns and events management for the organization

Greater Chicago Area

• Quadrupled revenue for annual fundraiser while pivoting from in-person to virtual to hybrid• Oversee individual giving program, including year-over-year successful holiday giving campaigns• Secure new funding and renewal support from funders across Delta's refined strategic plan programs: Nature-Based Climate Action, Resilient Agriculture, and Sustainability and Support Services• Manage the Delta Emerging Leaders associate board of 20-25 professionals, as well as department interns

Greater Chicago Area

• Increase performance of individual giving program, corporate funders, and fundraising events revenue• Manage the Delta Emerging Leaders associate board of 20-25 professionals, as well as department interns• Improve Delta’s email marketing performance, more doubling the average open rates by 84%• Outperformed nonprofit industry’s social media benchmarks for audience growth rate by 54.5%

Greater Chicago Area

• Grew portfolio of new family foundation donors and individual giving to support variety of projects including environmental justice, conservation, climate action, and sustainability planning• Championed diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives, including co-chairing DEI committee• Oversee individual giving program, including year-over-year successful holiday giving campaigns• Manage the Delta Emerging Leaders associate board of 20-25 professionals, as well as department interns

Greater Chicago Area

The George M. Pullman Educational Foundation supports the dreams and aspirations of outstanding graduating high school students with merit-based, need-based scholarships and continuing educational support, as they pursue their bachelor's degree at the college or university of their choice.• Responsible for planning, execution, and oversight of the foundation’s fundraising efforts, as well as the longer-term goal of including the creation of a planned giving program and procurement of major gift opportunities• Doubled the foundation’s fundraising during first year of employment• Secured four planned gifts, including the foundation’s first charitable gift annuity• Maintained high donor retention rate of 75.0% compared to 60.4% national average for higher education• Identified new prospects from alumni database including Fortune 500 founders and CEOs, winners of Grammy and Emmy Awards, mayor of major US city, and members of National Academies of Sciences and Engineering

Greater Chicago Area

• Marketing for successful $3.5 million campaign, the Province's first capital campaign in decades• Managed direct mail and online giving program for both donor acquisition and retention, raising $250,000 annually• Authored and produced book, which served to both commemorate the Augustinians' 75th anniversary as a Midwestern province and recognize major donors• Organized the Augustinian province's most attended event in over a decade, a special event held at Chicago's Holy Name Cathedral• Renovated multimedia communications project, Augustinian Vocations, including new website, email marketing, social media, and videos• Conducted Augustinians' first survey in several years to specifically measure the effectiveness of the Augustinians' communications efforts• Led effort to migrate three decades of data to new database, Raiser's Edge NXT

Greater Chicago Area

• Launched Augustinians' inaugural gala which netted over $100,000• Produced and distributed Augustinians' first annual report for donors and other stakeholders• Relaunched the Augustinians' website with new mobile-ready layout• Managed events related to donor recognition, stewardship, and cultivation• Introduced social media and email marketing programs for the Augustinians• Appointed to serve on the Communications Commission of the Federation of Augustinians of North America

Greater Chicago Area

• Relaunched quarterly newsletter with new content layout, distribution strategy, and focus on donor stewardship• Managed events related to donor recognition, stewardship, and cultivation • Increased public awareness through press releases and direct mail campaigns• Organized cross-cultural trip for students of Augustinian secondary school in Canada to volunteer in the Order's missions in Northern Peru

Greater Chicago Area

• Coordinated dozens of regional fundraising appeals across parishes in the Midwest• Developed monthly fundraising newsletter• Database management, gift entry, and donor acknowledgment• Began managing small portfolio of grants• Basic office accounting

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