• Develop strategic partnerships and execute an annual individual, foundation, and corporate fundraising plan; build and maintain ongoing relationships with donors, thought partners, and volunteers; write grant proposals, white papers, and donor reports; produce talking points for presentations • Prepare quarterly Board meeting materials, including financial oversight and budget development; support development efforts and set the organization’s strategic direction; manage Fellows and staff… Show more • Develop strategic partnerships and execute an annual individual, foundation, and corporate fundraising plan; build and maintain ongoing relationships with donors, thought partners, and volunteers; write grant proposals, white papers, and donor reports; produce talking points for presentations • Prepare quarterly Board meeting materials, including financial oversight and budget development; support development efforts and set the organization’s strategic direction; manage Fellows and staff of interns • Spearhead and manage the Fellowship program for social entrepreneurs, implementing initiatives in child development, education, vocational training, and technology to ensure their success; support development efforts and set the organization’s strategic direction • Create and supervise impactful communications material for newsletters, social media, marketing communications, website and reports to promote the foundation's work; curate videos and photos from Fellowship program sites• Oversee all donor event strategy and planning including annual luncheon and dinner, speaker series, and trips • Achievements: Doubled the fundraising portfolio for the Foundation, securing over five new grants from small family foundations and individual donors; curated a 100-page cookbook of recipes from the beneficiaries of our programs for a donor event Show less

• Map and create fundraising strategies to help non-profit organizations increase their funding from private and governmental grants. Research and write grant proposals and reports. Client list includes the Nambale Magnet School in Kenya, Families Network of Western CT and Operation Smile

• Managed the research, writing, and approval of donor communications materials for foundations, global corporations, individual philanthropists, and government program giving at highest levels; worked cross-culturally with senior leadership, fundraisers and global program staff to produce compelling material including proposals, reports, fact sheets and letters; specialized in education and humanitarian emergency programs • Collaborated with fundraisers to support new business and… Show more • Managed the research, writing, and approval of donor communications materials for foundations, global corporations, individual philanthropists, and government program giving at highest levels; worked cross-culturally with senior leadership, fundraisers and global program staff to produce compelling material including proposals, reports, fact sheets and letters; specialized in education and humanitarian emergency programs • Collaborated with fundraisers to support new business and fundraising opportunities leading to new donor partnerships through the development of content strategy, media and materials; produced talking points for C-suite presentations and wrote white papers for conference panel discussions • Drafted Q&A guide to standardize impact story collection in the field; liaised with frontline staff in country offices and fundraisers to produce high-impact communications materials • Achievements: Contributed to raising over $10 million annually for the organization by leading on proposals and reports for VIP individual donors and small family foundations, U.S. and international private foundations such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Educate a Child, and corporate foundations such as The Ford Foundation, Accenture Foundation, and others; recipient of emergency fundraising award Show less