Rob Cochran Email & Phone Number

Portland, Oregon Area

• Recruit, interview, hire and supervise the canvass team.• Provide leadership and training to canvassers in order to improve skills and motivate performance. • Achieve and exceed annual fundraising goals for the Grassroots Outreach Program.• Model best practices and maintain a fundraising level that sets the standard for other canvassers and field managers to follow.• Select zip codes and towns to canvass to ensure there are sufficient CMDs to support successful door-to-door canvassing for the entire crew throughout the year and assign field managers to manage those towns. • Work with other canvassing organizations to provide training, resources, and to coordinate turf within zip codes in order to avoid overlap. • Maintain all files, records, spreadsheets and other documents related to the ongoing activities of the canvass and to be used for future organizing efforts.• Cash-out the crews on a nightly basis and record nightly fundraising activity in various relevant spreadsheets and trackers.• Process the daily deposit from the previous night’s canvass and maintain an ongoing record of all canvass donations received.• Monitor canvassers’ performance and progress to ensure performance standards are met and fundraising goals are achieved. • Work with the Development Director to track expenses and income and to manage the annual budget for the Grassroots Outreach Program.• Process the semi-monthly canvass payroll to ensure canvassers are paid accurately and on-time.

Portland, Oregon Area

• Lead out crews for nightly door-to-door fundraising to win the freedom to marry for LGBT couples in Oregon and to defeat an anti-LGBT discrimination initiative. • Trained canvassers in areas such as turf management, communication skills, overcoming donor hesitations, effective donor targeting, and building rapport. • Assisted Canvass Directors in assigning and cutting turf, creating administrative documents and spreadsheets, nightly cash-out procedures, and coordinating with other canvass groups in the city to determine best areas to canvass.• Worked with new hires to bring them up to speed on the campaign and make sure they had the information they needed to effectively meet fundraising goals.• Raised more than $30,000 in an 8-month period which placed me as the highest fundraising canvasser in the office with a 55% yes rate and a nightly average of $235.

Portland, Or/Chicago Il

• Door-to-door grassroots fundraising for HRC, Environment Oregon, OSPIRG.• Trained new canvassers on canvassing techniques.• Evaluated canvasser skills and abilities in order to provide feedback to canvassers on achieving goals.• Analyzed fundraising history from prior years in order to determine fundraising potential for current campaign.• Drew turf for crew members to canvass.• Assigned goals for canvassers to achieve.• Resolved logistical problems with crew members while on turf.• Trained new field managers on procedures and practices.• Cashed out crew members at the end of the night.• Organized social activities for team building and recreation.• Was recognized by the Human Rights Campaign national office as one of the top fundraising canvassers in the country for 2013.

Baja, Mexico

• Scheduled clients for spa appointments.• Supervised spa employees.• Recruited, interviewed and hired staff.• Maintained a budget for equipment, materials, supplies and advertising.• Identified and developed new customer markets and promotional programs. • Created marketing and promotional materials such as menus, flyers, coupons, discount cards, etc. • Developed and maintained the spa website.