Robert Blakely Email & Phone Number

Tuskegee, Al

Birmingham, Alabama Area

• Created and led a campaign that raised an all-time high of $16.6M in total contributions for 2012 and 2103, including a $15.7M in purely unrestricted funding• Satisfied the accrediting agency which had required that the college raise sufficient financial resources in order to be removed from warning status• Oversaw a 12.5% increase in annual fund support in one year’s time• Increased alumni support percentage from 34% to 36.2% from 2012 to 2013• Supervised more than 15 personnel

• Personally procured five and six-figure donor commitments consistently• Cultivated productive philanthropic relationships with a portfolio of 120+ assigned major gift ($25k+) prospects • Directed all facets of the Brock School’s component of Samford’s five-year comprehensive campaign and annual fund• Successfully planned, recruited, and established an Economics/Finance Advisory Board including establishment of giving minimums

• Consistently solicited and secured five and six-figure gifts contributing to the Citadel Foundation’s successful completion of its $100 million capital campaign• Cultivated meaningful philanthropic relationships with a portfolio of 100+ assigned major gift ($25k+) prospects• Personally solicited over 200 prospects annually, including both regional and national constituents

Major Gifts Officer, Coordinator of Reunion Planning

Phonathon Coordinator, Annual Gifts Officer

Raised funds for 100+ political, educational, and charitable organizations

M.Ed., Higher Education Administration

Activities and Societies: Concentration in Development

B.A., History

Historic Deerfield Summer Fellow, 2003 Trinity College, Oxford University, Summer Fellowship, 2002 Research Internship, Emily Dickinson.

Associate'S, General

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