Phil Dodson Email & Phone Number

Roswell, Georgia

Lunches for Learning exists to break the cycle of poverty in rural Honduras by providing a healthy lunch to elementary school children every school day at their school; thereby allowing these children to stay in school so they can complete at least the sixth grade and enter the workforce as literate individuals.Honduras is among the poorest nations in the world with much of the population living below the poverty level, earning less than $2 per day. However, statistics show that a child who earns a sixth grade education has hope for breaking the cycle of poverty because they learn basic reading, writing and math skills that open doors to a brighter future. This is the foundation of the Lunches for Learning mission.

Dahlonega, Georgia

Responsible for all friend-raising and planned giving for North Georgia Camp & Retreat Ministries - including Glisson Camp & Retreat Center, as well as the expanding companion ministries of the Experiential Leadership Institute (ELI) and Grow Day Camps. For Glisson, in 2014 we completed a $4.9 million capital campaign - the most ambitious campaign Glisson has ever undertaken. We successfully launched Glisson's first-ever Annual Fund in 2007, followed by the introduction of the Cane Creek Falls Fellowship, Glisson's planned giving society, in 2008. We completed a comprehensive Updated Master Plan in 2009 and 2010, followed by a feasibility study in 2010 and 2011. That Updated Master Plan led to the launch of our $4.9 million Serving Generations capital campaign in 2012 - which was successfully completed in October 2014.We also received Glisson's largest single gift of $1 million in 2015, designated for additional capital improvements beyond those covered by the Serving Generations capital campaign.

Atlanta, Ga

Managed a team of Project Managers responsible for delivering custom decisioning services and daily client support to various US credit issuers in an ASP environment. Position was eliminated in 2005 as the result of a corporate restructuring.

Columbus, Ga

Responsible for the Client Relations and System Development functions for the TS2 Risk Systems module, including Collections, Authorizations and Security/Fraud involving two Associate Directors and all team members under their leadership. The Risk Systems team provided client operational support and custom development for all US bankcard clients utilizing the shared TS2 Consumer platform.

Columbus, Ga

Served the role of primary relationship manager for several bankcard clients whose credit accounts processed on the TS2 Consumer platform. Clients included Branch Banking and Trust (Wilson, NC), Valley National Bank (Wayne, NJ) and Target Financial Corporation (Minneapolis, MN), which involved the initial pilot and eventual nationwide launch of the Target Visa Card.

Lagrange, Ga

As Director of Admission, I was responsible for all student recruitment and admission strategies for the college - including traditional students, non-traditional students, graduate programs and the summer Visual Arts Workshop. During my tenure, we implemented LaGrange's first-ever academic scholarship interview process, as well as the first-ever early orientation program for incoming freshmen. Our recruitment strategy involved a shift in focus away from the traditional, and more common, travel-based recruitment model to a more personal direct-contact model - further refining the model I had developed at Andrew College previously. This model utilized telecounseling strategies which allowed Admission Counselors to make direct, personal contacts with more prospective students and their parents in any given week than a travel-based approach would allow. Initial telephone contact was used to confirm the interest level of prospective students, making follow-up travel to students' hometowns and schools much more effective by allowing Admission Counselors to focus their travel on the students most likely to choose LaGrange. This new recruitment model resulted in a 13% increase in new freshmen in the first full year of implementation (Fall 1993).

Cuthbert, Ga

As Dean of Admission, I was responsible for all student recruitment and admission strategies for the college. During my tenure, we developed an innovative telecounseling approach designed to personalize the recruitment process over the more common, and less targeted, travel-based recruitment model. Telephone contact was the primary method of contacting students and their parents - allowing Admission Counselors to determine the initial interest level of prospective students, then utilize high school visits, home visits and college fairs as follow-up contact methods. This model streamlined travel costs and increased the effectiveness of recruitment outreach.

Oxford, Ga

I began at Oxford College as an Admission Counselor in 1986, and was promoted to Assistant Director of Admission and Financial Aid in 1988. My primary responsibilities involved recruiting students from a specific geographic area, participating in college fairs and visiting high schools in my assigned area, encouraging students to visit campus and then guiding students and parents through the admission, financial aid and enrollment processes.

Mba Coursework

Graduate Counseling Coursework

Ba, Psychology