Robert Bourke Email & Phone Number

Greater Seattle Area

Increased private support for the Information School focusing on individual giving.• Discovered new donor leads for major and leadership gifts conducting database research and cold call outreach via telephone and email.• Analyzed and evaluated donor prospects for qualification engaging through face to face, phone, and online meetings. • Maintained an active portfolio of 75 major gift prospects. Responsible for 100 such meetings per year that advanced the gift conversation.• In collaboration with faculty and staff, developed wrote strategies and gift proposals for prospects. Responsible for five major gift asks of $25K or more yearly. Completed nine asks and committed eight gifts totaling over $800k in FY20.• Documented all gift work and meetings in donor database by writing timely contact reports, gift proposals, and endowment agreements. • Planned and executed targeted alumni social events to connect with new donor prospects and increase donor coverage.• Collaborated with faculty and staff to develop annual giving strategies for mailings, and electronic newsletters.• Crafted a new donor stewardship program for annual donors, segmenting for new donors, lapsed donors, and ongoing supporters.

Greater Seattle Area

Fosters and deepens engagement and philanthropic relationships between the business school and alumni and annual donors. Analyzes constituent trends and needs, matching them with strategic goals and resources to create a comprehensive philanthropic program.- Maintains portfolio of 60+ major and leadership gift prospects, conducts personal visits for qualification, stewardship, and gift solicitation. Successful solicitations raging from annual gifts of $1,000 to major gifts of $50,000.- Leads, plans, and executes multifaceted annual giving program through direct mail, email, social media, and other campaigns.- Leads and supervises the activities of five part time direct reports. Responsibilities include staff recruitment, hiring, training, and performance evaluation of the team members.- Solicits corporate sponsorships for annual golf tournament and fundraiser dinner / auction.- Deepens alumni participation and engagement through the activities of alumni advisory board of 25 members. Responsible for board volunteer recruitment, projects and activities. Committed board to raising $50,000 to launch an alumni endowed scholarship.- Creates, organizes and markets strategic engagement events such as breakfasts, networking and informational sessions, and a fundraiser dinner for 270 guests.-Writes for institution web site, magazines, stewardship letters, event invitations and gift appeals.

Monterey, California

Authored and executed a wide-ranging program to identify, contact, and cultivate alumni, for the purpose of creating valuable supporters and relationships.- Formulated a strategic plan and goals for alumni program, including alumni research, communication pieces, and events. - Managed database of ~50,000 records, grew addressable records by 20%. Researched development software and implemented a cost-effective database in contract with Harris. - Media spokesperson for alumni achievements, including television stand-up and in-studio interviews, and radio. Wrote strategic press releases, answered print, radio, and television media inquiries.- Edited contributions and wrote major pieces for strategic communications materials including the school's flagship magazine, alumni directory, targeted brochures, and direct mailings. - Planned and executed affinity programming and events including social and professional gatherings. - Launched a program to cultivate high-profile alumni, including astronauts, business leaders of national stature, SES level government officials.

Provided technical, communications, and operations assistance to the Coastal OceanAcoustics Lab.- Local area network administrator and system administrator. Certified in IRIX system administration, and administrated servers in Sun Solaris, HP-UX, Linux, Windows and Macintosh OS environments.- Maintained data storage hardware and backup software, fiber ring, and thin net.- Developed code to parse and pre-process data sets in MATLAB, Fortran 77, and C++. Budgeted software and hardware needs for lab. - Planned and managed academic symposiums. - Proofread scholarly papers. - Facilitated and taught Master’s level lab course in oceanographic data sets.- Collected oceanographic data (digital and physical) at sea on research expeditions as technical watch team member. Operated electronic sensors, launched and recovered instruments on deck.

Bachelor Of Science (Bs), Aviation/Airway Management And Operations

Activities and Societies: Navy ROTC Campus Radio DJ - WEGL

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