Qiana Marie Williams Email & Phone Number

Chicago Headquarters

•Oversea global corporate employee engagement team managing workplace giving campaigns, volunteer service projects, and cause marketing campaign activations •Build tools, messaging, and strategies for engaging workplace giving and peer-to-peer fundraising initiatives •Analyze existing employee giving campaigns, and engagement opportunities to recommend improvements to development new approaches•Create a donor-centric fundraising approach across the entire organization•Collaborate with Individual Giving Team and Development Associates to build strategies to convert employee giving participants to individual donors•Implement strategies to broaden donor relationships across GFN’s portfolio of interests including product donations, funds, cause marketing, employee engagement, C-suite leadership engagement, in-kind support, awareness, and advocacy•Guide and co-develop strategy and annual plan for strategic corporate employee giving engagements for food banking organizations and corporate partnerships•Design employee engagement program and track engagement to develop reports to maximum value of corporate partners and impact with food banks•Develop strategy and annual plan for cause marketing campaigns in discovering mutually beneficial intersections of collaboration to meet partners’ corporate social responsibility goals to support GFN’s fundraising, communication, and employee engagement initiatives•Collaborate with internal teams—including programs and communication—to ensure strong campaign activation across appropriate global, national, and local levels•Research potential prospect partners to activate cause marketing and develop prospect proposals •Create proposals, presentations, and follow up materials for corporate partners•Oversee planning, process, and execution for in-person, skilled base and virtual volunteer opportunities•Guide and co-develop strategy and annual plan for strategic corporate volunteer engagements

Atlanta

•Manage corporate and foundation partnerships with high strategic project management and over $10M in revenue; Buffalo Wild Wings, Lowe's Foundation, America’s Best, True Value, Samsung, Papa John's, Family Dollar, Humana, Robert Half, Fluor and Toyota •Oversee administration of grant applications, selection process, financial performance and execution of contracted deliverables •Facilitate creation of annual business plan for accounts including; budget, contract deliverables, project timeline, marketing/event calendar, Nationwide Boys & Girls Club integration plan and proposed metrics •Lead cross functional department meetings and oversee execution of internal team deliverables •Develop and manage cause marketing campaigns with corporate partnerships to increase revenue •Plan and lead quarterly account review sessions to ensure spending is on target •Serve as BGCA national liaison to optimize quality of service, partner ROI, along with customer satisfaction to ensure high renewal rates and identifying new revenue opportunities to maximize partnership

Greater Chicago Area

•Responsible for managing a $2.7M portfolio including: Federal Reserve Bank, GE, JP Morgan Chase, Macy’s, McDonald’s, U.S. Bank and Walgreens; surpassed fundraising goal •Created and implemented year-round metrics driven engagement plans for Fortune 500 companies•Identified and recommended opportunities to foster sustainable mutually beneficial and mission-centered partnerships with companies to deepen corporate engagement •Developed and presented United Way community impact presentations to corporate leadership teams, foundations, civic organizations, community leaders and donor prospect to develop collaborative investment opportunities for LIVE UNITED 2020•Coordinated volunteer service projects for prospects, high-level donors and corporate partners •Conducted donor prospect research to develop major gifts engagement plan to deepen high level donors •Created, managed and executed donor fundraising special events with an emphasis on leadership giving •Grew individual gifts beyond the workplace through enhancing donor relationships•Developed cause marketing campaigns and led CSR affinity group engagement projects •Managed fundraising campaign reports in Andar database to track progress, goals and campaign metrics •Conducted post campaign evaluations to analyze results to determine opportunities for improvements

•Provided leadership and oversaw volunteer services department implementing strategies for recruiting, managing, retaining and recognizing over 1000 volunteers annually •Leveraged communication for community-based engagement for corporate initiatives and events •Collaborated with underwriting to identify prospects partnerships towards $10M fundraising goals•Created department revenue streams by researching company employee match programs •Cultivated effective relationships with a diverse population of community leaders, corporate partners, high level donors and volunteers to solicit ongoing support for funding NPR/PBS programs annually •Designed educational training materials and delivered presentations for on-air membership campaigns •Created social media campaign messaging related to specific corporate responsibility strategies for corporate partners•Created written policies and procedures to restructure volunteer services department to improve recruitment and retention

•Supervised staff to aggressively recruit, interview, manage and monitor volunteers on a continuous basis •Provided leadership and oversight to implement and evaluate strategic plans for volunteer services •Developed training modules for afterschool volunteers and created communication material for brochures, newsletters and website •Coordinated and executed special events to recognize volunteers and program participates •Created internet recruiting campaigns and networking events to surpass recruitment goals•Collaborated with development team to identify new funding opportunities •Secured AmeriCorps grant and developed strategic plan for program staff and volunteers -Oversaw program budget and managed program staff -Created program metrics to ensure program success and designed program evaluations  -Facilitated and coordinated logistics for AmeriCorps trainings, meetings and conferences

•Created press releases for lottery winners and organized lottery press conferences •Scheduled Speaker’s Bureau requests for CEO and Vice President of Public Affairs •Developed lottery’s first Corporate Employee Volunteerism program and chaired the committee -Coordinated company corporate social responsibility activities  -Developed strategies and tactics to increase employee participation by 85% -Researched and developed new community partnerships

Bachelor Of Arts (Ba), Public Relations

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